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20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat Alert and Response Systems to Protect Health: Best Practices Guidebook
Extreme heat poses growing risks to the health of Canadians. Public health and emergency management officials in several Canadian communities are developing interventions to reduce heat-health risks and to prepare for the expected increase in the frequency, duration and severity of extreme heat events due to climate change. To help ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Study Quantifies Climate-Change-Related Deaths
A study in Environmental Research Letters suggests a fifth of premature deaths during a 2003 heatwave in Europe are linked to human-caused climate change. “We are now able to put a number on the deaths caused by climate change in a heat wave,” said lead author Daniel Mitchell of the University of Oxford. “This has […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heat stress to wipe billions off GDP in India, China
The massive economic and health losses that climate change is already causing across the world are detailed in six scientific papers published today. Perhaps most striking is the warning about large productivity losses already being experienced due to heat stress, which can already be calculated for 43 countries. The paper estimates ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health is about environment, so tackling chronic diseases starts with energy efficiency
Cancer is a disease that impacts on the lives of so many of us, either directly or indirectly. The desire to see cancer and its impacts tackled is something that strikes a chord in us all. I was greatly struck by the findings in the report of the National Cancer Registry, published June 9, that […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate, conflict, and African development: Edward Miguel at TEDxBerkeley
Edward Miguel at TEDxBerkeley 2014: “Rethink. Redefine. Recreate.” His talk is titled “Climate, Conflict, and African Development.” Edward Miguel is the
20 Apr 2018 |
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Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
This Act is about improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Photo feature: climate change worsens arsenic poisoning
In many parts of eastern India, Bangladesh and southern Pakistan, overuse of groundwater first brought the level of arsenic above the safe limit of 0.05 milligrams per litre of drinking water, as prescribed by the World Health Organisation. Now, as climate change reduces the rate at which rainwater seeps underground, the arsenic ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hospitals urged to save money while improving environmental impact
Measures to help the NHS both save money and reduce its environmental impact have been proposed in a new report from the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU). The report sets out 35 interventions which, if they are all implemented, could save £414m and 1.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year by 2020. This would also […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Was Climate Change Partly to Blame for Europe’s Deadly Heat Wave?
Climate change is directly responsible for more than 500 deaths in London and Paris during the heat wave that swept Europe in 2003, according to a new study by the University of Oxford. In the three months from June–August 2003, searing temperatures — the hottest recorded in Europe since 1540 — caused upwards of 70,000 ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Climate-Change Solution No One Will Talk About
Studies have shown that improved access to birth control can be a valuable tool in slowing global warming, but many politicians are afraid to broach the subject.