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How climate change threatens public health

WEBCiting health threats posed by climate change, more than 70 major medical groups in the U.S. released a call to action in June 2019 declaring climate change “a …

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How addressing climate change can also improve public health

WEBSlashing emissions and reducing air pollution also contributes to improved public health. For example, reducing air pollution lowers the risk for causing or …

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Burning fossil fuels heats the climate. It also harms public health.

WEBSources of human-caused particulate matter include fossil fuel combustion, vehicles, agriculture, road dust, and fires. Small particulate matter is the most ravaging …

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The number of lives that clean energy could save, by U.S. state

WEBThe Net Zero study shows that over 68,000 premature deaths can be averted in California by 2050, largely from electrifying transportation. As Pennsylvania and Ohio …

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Reducing healthcare sector’s greenhouse gas emissions

WEBAn education at intersection of climate change, health, and equity. Houser says the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, reports …

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12 books on climate change and public health

WEBThe need has never been greater for the grounded, informative, and accessible discussion provided by this groundbreaking book. Climate Change and the …

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Clean energy could save American lives to tune of $700 billion per …

WEBClean energy could save American lives to tune of $700 billion per year. New research quantifies how actions to curb climate change will yield immediate benefits …

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Extreme heat will cost the U.S. $1 billion in health care costs — this

WEB“As the number of heat-event days increases, the probability that people are going to get rushed to the emergency room or get hospitalized increases,” said Steven …

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New books and reports about climate change and your health

WEBClimate Change and the Health Sector: Healing the World, edited by A. Thomas et al (Routledge India 2021, 296 pages, $52.95 paperback, but a free download …

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Climate change is increasing the risk of infectious diseases …

WEBClimate change has already increased the risk of nearly 60% of all known infectious diseases, including tick- and mosquito-borne diseases — like Lyme disease …

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The little-known physical and mental health benefits of urban trees

WEBAnd researchers have identified a plethora of physical and mental health benefits that come along with planting more trees in urban areas. For example, the …

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How energy-efficiency upgrades can improve your health

WEBStaff members then make recommendations for addressing health hazards. Yale Climate Connections spoke to Kennedy about how energy-efficiency upgrades and …

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How climate change affects mental health

WEB(Photo credit: COD Newsroom / Flickr) [en Español]From post-disaster traumas to anxiety about the future, people around the world are grappling with the …

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Gas stoves are even worse for our health than previously known, …

WEB[Lee en español] Within the past few years, scientists have found that gas stoves are a major source of air pollution within homes, responsible for almost 13% of all …

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Five ways climate change makes it harder for doctors to help their

WEBPeriods of high temperatures can compromise the effectiveness of some medications and increase the risk of heat-related illness for those taking certain …

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Climate change stresses physical and mental health in Puerto Rico …

WEB[En español] Puerto Rico has seen an alarming increase in deaths over the last two years caused by cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, and mental health …

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12 books and reports on the COVID-19 pandemic and the long …

WEBCOVID-19 Shakes the World, by Slavoj Zizek (Polity Press 2020, 140 pages, $19.95) We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from the …

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Marquee hotels join NYC’s ‘carbon challenge’

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Melting ice opens doors for wider spread of contaminants, diseases

WEBIt explores how melting sea ice may be facilitating the spread of a disease called Phocine distemper virus (PDV) among marine mammals. PDV, a highly infectious …

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American society wasn’t always so car-centric. Our future doesn’t …

WEBThe myth of America’s love affair with cars. For Norton, Mehren’s Engineering News-Record editorial was an important piece of evidence that the car-centric …

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Revkin/DotEarth, Cook/Skeptical Science Win National …

WEBYale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and …

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Memo to Climate Scientists: Tweet, Or Not Tweet

WEBYale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and …

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