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Taxonomy Archive: vulnerable populations
20 Apr 2018 |
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Letter: Harmful House Bill
Last week, the US House decided that keep our air safe is not important and passed a bill to restrict implementation of the new standards for nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter and lead. The “Smoggy Skies Act” (HR 4775) is an irresponsible attack on the Clean Air Act. This bill would double […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Equity
Climate One presents a podcast in which three speakers discuss vulnerable populations, specifically communitites of color, and the impacts of climate change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Social Learning for Community Resilience: Reducing the Risks from Flooding In and Around Crediton
Social Learning for Community Resilience: Reducing the Risks from Flooding In and Around Crediton
20 Apr 2018 |
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Could Pheonix Soon Become Uninhabitable?
The city is at the crossroads of climate change—and, for a host of reasons, an unsustainable future.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Drought Frames Economic Divide of Californians
Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells her children to skip a bath on days when they do not play outside; that holds down the water bill. Lillian Barrera, a housekeeper who travels 25 miles to clean homes in Beverly Hills, serves dinner to her family on paper plates for much the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Scientist: Fossil fuels’ two-way assault on children’s health needs to stop
Fossil fuels represent a two-pronged attack on the health of children, a leading health scientist has warned. To foster health and well-being in future generations, society needs to dramatically decrease dependence on dirty energy.Frederica Perera (Credit: Columbia.edu) In a commentary released today summarizing the key science ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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In East Porterville, drought escalates mental health issues
Manuel León’s fight for his own life began long before la sequía – the drought – swallowed up the water under his East Porterville home and with it, his only escape from reality.He was sick before the backyard cherry, apple and pear trees shriveled, before the onions and roses wilted, before his vivid green lawn […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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My view: Climate mitigation — just what the doctor ordered
“We incorporate climate change into all aspects of our health management.” With this emphatic statement, Royal DeLegge, Salt Lake County Health Department’s environmental health director, opened the “Climate Variability and Health Symposium” last month. This two-day event brought together over 110 experts and citizens ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy oceans, healthy people
A groundbreaking study released in the journal Nature last week underscored something many of us have long known to be true: around the world, human health is inextricably linked to the health of the oceans. When the oceans suffer – from threats like climate change and overfishing – people suffer too.This new study shows that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Naomi Klein on the racism that underlies climate change inaction
In recent months, the world’s gaze has landed again and again on a hellish Australian terrain of climate-related disaster. Bushfires ravage some of the planet’s oldest trees in Tasmania. Catastrophic coral bleaching leaves much of the Great Barrier Reef a ghostly white. The first known mammal to be wiped out by global warming was ...