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20 Apr 2018 |
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Is there anything worse for our health than fossil fuels?
Do health organisations have a moral duty to pull their money out of fossil fuels? The recently published Unhealthy Investments report argues that they do.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika Goes Viral in the U.S.
A new analysis by Climate Central highlights that the number of days hot and humid enough for mosquitoes to be active and biting has increased in many big US cities—and climate change will further increase those numbers, in most locations. In their analysis, the ten cities with the biggest increase in the length of the […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika: Are outbreaks in U.S. cities avoidable?
When it comes to addressing emerging infectious disease, we have a short attention span. Forces are mobilized when we’ve crossed a tipping point, and demobilized when the immediate threat has passed. In the case of Zika, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency based on a strong association between ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Harzard Zone: The Impact of Climate Change on Occupational Health
Global climate change has the potential to affect human health in two significant ways: by changing the severity and frequency of health issues already affected by climate factors, and by creating unprecedented health threats in places where they have not previously occurred. Studies show that global warming will likely amplify ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate and Energy in the Health Care Sector: An Interview with Bill Ravanesi
The health care industry has the power to appreciably move the needle on climate and energy progress. Leaders in the sector are harnessing that power, to the benefit of their communities and the world as a whole.
20 Apr 2018 |
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How the Public Health Community is Leading on Climate Change: The American Public Health Association has divested from fossil fuels and named the 2017 “Year of Climate Change”
When the internationsl climate negotiation COP23 opened on November 6, the U.S. delegation was sidelined for the first time in international climate negotiations. Following the Trump Administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord and its refusal to fund an official U.S. pavilion at the meeting, state and local ...