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20 Apr 2018 |
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Beyond Storms & Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change
This report the likely psychological impacts of climate change, from stress, anxiety and depression, to loss of community identity, to increases in violence and aggression. It discusses the pathways through which these and other impacts on human well-being will arise, why some communities will be hit harder than others, and how ...
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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How Farmworkers Experience A Warming Climate
Rising summer temperatures will particularly affect the health of people who make a living outdoors – building roads, landscaping yards and harvesting crops.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hotter Summers Mean More Health Risks In Urban Heat Islands
Climate change models are predicting hotter summers in the Northwest, and experts say the health risks from that heat are higher in places known as urban heat islands.
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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US Effort on Ocean Acidification Needs Focus on Human Impacts
This article presents the impact of ocean acidification on human health, food security, and local economies. Acidification is one of the larger problems associated with greenhouse gas emissions, as oceans serve as a giant sponge for carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide is dissolved in seawater, water chemistry changes and acidity ...
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.