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20 Apr 2018 |
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Can Living With Long-Term Drought Cause Trauma?
While climate scientists warn about the dangers droughts pose to the natural world, Dr. Irwin Redlener worries about its effects on minds and bodies.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health and Climate Change: 7 Ways You Are Being Harmed
About their pace, their pain, and traffic, mostly
20 Apr 2018 |
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Meat is a complex health issue but a simple climate one: the world needs to eat less of it
The recent Lancet Commission report rightly pointed out that climate change is a huge risk to global public health. But it shied away from one of the main issues: the world consumes far too much meat.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Coal’s Devastation
Scholars may never understand the energy source’s full economic cost, but that doesn’t make its damage any less knowable.
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Much Do Hurricanes Hurt the Economy? – The Atlantic
Researchers trying to understand the costs of climate change say that increasing storm activity may run the planet nearly $10 trillion.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Why Do Pediatricians Care About Climate Change?
Pediatrician Samantha Ahdoot discusses the numerous health impacts on children associated with climate change. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to their growing minds and bodies, necessitating pediatrician awareness and action.
20 Apr 2018 |
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“Reaching a tipping point”: Climate a key issue at World Health Assembly
Josh Karliner discusses how climate change — widely considered to be the greatest health threat of the century — was a major point of focus this year at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Africa: Over 43 Million Africans Face Extreme Poverty Due to Climate Change By 2030
This brief article presents the potential impacts of climate change on the health and economic wellness of African populations. It covers the World Bank projections regarding the climate change impacts in 2030.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate action is healthcare outside the clinic
For years human health resided in a different ‘box’ than climate health. At first, healthcare professionals themselves didn’t recognize climate change would have an effect on their health or on their work. Then in 2009 the Lancet stunned us all with the pronouncement that “Climate change is the greatest global health threat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Oakland City Council Votes to Ban Coal Exports in Big Win for Local Advocates
The Oakland City Council took a strong stand against coal last night. Following a long and often emotional city council meeting — during which whistles and cheers were at times met with boos and yelling — the council passed an ordinance prohibiting the storage and handling of coal and petcoke at Oakland facilities, and a […]