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20 Apr 2018 |
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More than 30 Scientific Societies Urge Congress to Stop Denying Climate Change
For a while now, scientists have been dealing with a steady stream of climate change denial from the U.S. Congress with a mix of wit and thinly veiled exasperation, but it looks like they’ve finally run out of patience because some of the top scientific organizations in the country just got together and sent Congress […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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We Can Expect More Outbreaks Like Zika As the Climate Changes
The factors leading to the current Zika outbreak won’t be clear for some time, but environmental health experts say there’s a good chance such infectious diseases will become more common as the global climate warms. Mosquitoes, the blood-sucking insects responsible for transmitting Zika virus in Brazil and more than 20 other ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Will the health dangers of climate change get people to care? The science says: maybe
Climate change is a major public health threat, already making existing problems like asthma, exposure to extreme heat, food poisoning, and infectious disease more severe, and posing new risks from climate change-related disasters, including death or injury.
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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Zika virus is a symptom of climate change
The Zika epidemic is one of the ill effects of climate change. Warming climate not being its only cause, current infections in the United States are reported to be primarily travel related. Yet biology favors both higher activity level and expansion into new territory, under higher temperatures, of the mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health benefits of urban vegetation and green space: Research roundup
For hundreds of years, city planners have developed parks, planted trees and set aside open space in urban environments. Boston Common, a public square used for grazing livestock since 1634, was converted into a park in 1830. A quarter of a century later, New York’s Central Park opened, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Southern California leaders to fight climate change’s effects on health
Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years in economic development and progress in global public health unless leaders from every sector work to change dependence on fossil fuels, a new report concluded.The report, published Monday in The Lancet, Britain’s medical journal, is considered a major study on climate change ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Alaska’s terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change
The fires are just the latest indicator of a climatic transformation that is remaking the state — its forests, its coasts, its glaciers, and perhaps most of all, the frozen ground beneath — more than any other in America.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is El Nino to Blame for the “Explosive” Zika Virus Outbreak?
A worker in Brazil disinfects the famous Sambadrome as part of the fight against the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which spreads the Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses. Marcelo Sayao/ZUMA The outbreak of Zika virus in Latin America is “spreading explosively,” the director of the World Health Organization warned at an ...