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20 Apr 2018 |
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How Climate Change Affects Children: AAP Policy Explained
When pediatricians take care of children, we aren’t just thinking about their health and safety now—we are thinking about their health and safety in the future, too.When we talk with parents about healthy diet and exercise, we aren’t just thinking about good growth and energy now, we are thinking about making sure that ...
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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Medical Community Warns Climate Change Is an Imminent Public Health Threat
An international alliance of doctors, nurses and other health professionals concerned about the impacts of climate change is urging governments to reach a strong agreement at the ongoing United Nations’ climate negotiations in Paris.Declarations of a global medical consensus on climate change signed by 1,700 health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Sizzling Midwest Feels a Preview of a Hotter Future Climate
Extreme heat waves like the current string of scorching days in the Midwest have become more frequent worldwide in the last 60 years, and climate scientists expect that human-caused global warming will exacerbate the dangerous trend in coming decades. It comes with potentially life-threatening consequences for millions of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change’s Growing Impact on People Experiencing Homelessness
The seemingly unending and sometimes fatal heat waves gripping large portions of the United States this month can be bad for those who are able to find shelter indoors. It is even worse for those experiencing homelessness. The impacts of climate change are already being felt by people across the planet, most of whom can […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Preventive medicine expert advocates a plant-based diet
In a letter to JAMA, the preventive-medicine expert addresses the failure of the newest USDA Dietary Guidelines to articulate the health and climate benefits of a low-meat diet.Eating meat is bad for our health and bad for our planet, according to Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Eating Meat and Climate Change Have Contributed to Viruses Like Zika
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus currently spreading across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, has been declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus is suspected to cause a birth defect known as microcephaly, in which babies are born with small heads, a condition which can ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Communication and Environmental Literacy
Today my team at Ten Strands and I were pondering the bubble we live in here in the Bay Area. In general, everyone we talk to and work with seems to understand that climate change is a pressing issue that impacts us now and will impact future generations even more severely. It got me wondering […]
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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What’s Food Loss and Waste Got to Do with Sustainable Development? A Lot, Actually.
More than 150 world leaders will meet in New York this weekend to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of global targets intended to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and curb climate change. The SDGs will help set the global development agenda for the next 15 years, focusing attention on the […]