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20 Apr 2018 |
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COP21 SERIES Reshaping the landscape: The geography of human rights, climate change, and disasters
When leaders gather in Paris to discuss serious measures to address climate change this December, they will be surrounded by a city and region that, in recent decades, has spent its summers grappling with deadly heat. The ongoing effects of these annual climatic threats may not be visible from the Paris-Le Bourget site in December, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Mining Coal, Mounting Costs: The Life Cycle Consequences of Coal
Energy is essential to our daily lives, and for the past century and a half we have depended on fossil fuels to produce it. But, from extraction to combustion, coal, oil and natural gas have multiple health, environmental and economic impacts that are proving costly for society. We estimate that the life cycle impacts of […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is climate change driving the spread of Zika virus?
The Zika virus, transmitted by the same mosquito as dengue fever, has spread with alarming speed throughout South and Central America – and scientists in Brazil suspect that global warming is exacerbating the problem.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ocean Acidification – Effects on Humans
Ocean acidification will have drastic effects on shelled organisms and on coral reefs, but what about its effects on humans? Many people mistakenly believe that the oceans may be turning to acid, and that it will no longer be safe for humans enter the water. This is not true, even in the most extreme scenarios […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is Your State Prepared For The Health Impacts Of Climate Change?
This winter, a strange sickness has been spreading through the Caribbean. In St. Martin alone, where the disease was first detected in December, there have been over 500 confirmed cases and another 3,200 people are believed to have contracted the disease elsewhere in the Caribbean. The disease, Chikungunya fever, was once only seen ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Weather: Hot enough for you? This is just the beginning
Millions of people around the world are experiencing a scorching summer, as records are broken and thermostats climb this week in parts of Europe. Temperatures in Paris and Brussels exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit at a time of year when 70-degree weather is the norm, according to Accuweather.com.In Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Protecting Communities from Climate Change (Hint: It’s not Just About Seawalls)
Climate change is here, and it is already affecting our health and wellbeing. That’s the conclusion of the National Climate and Health Assessment, released last week by the prestigious U.S. Global Change Research Program. Fortunately, it is possible to make even our most vulnerable communities more climate-resilient. In fact, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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More Needs to be Done to Prioritize Climate Change
Climate change is a critical public health issue — one that hospitals need to do more to address. Every year, U.S. hospitals are emitting 8 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases, generating more than 5.9 million tons of waste annually, and spending more than $6.5 billion on energy costs. While many hospitals are beginning to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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What Makes Agriculture Vulnerable to Climate Change, and the Mortality Effects of Fruit and Vegetable Scarcity
Gains in food production and increased awareness of global food security are threatened by looming losses due to climate change, according to a study published in The Lancet. Marco Springmann et al. calculate that climate change will lead to a 3.2 percent reduction in global food availability per person by 2050, driven by changes in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Opinion: The case for a child-centered energy and climate policy
Children suffer the most from fossil fuel burning.Fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2) is the root cause of much of children’s ill health children today as well as their uncertain future. There are strong scientific arguments, as well persuasive economic ones, for reducing the world’s ...