Climate change isn’t a threat to the future. For the world’s 2.4 billion children, it’s a global emergency today.
Climate change isn’t a threat to the future. For the world’s 2.4 billion children, it’s a global emergency today.
Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown is published as the world confronts profound and concurrent systemic shocks.
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Tanzania has made significant progress in the fight against malaria over the last 20 years thanks to bed nets, insecticides, and a vaccine, but new trends in the weather in East Africa seem to indicate there is a new threat to progress: climate change. and public health.
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says.
As temperatures warm, US health officials are braced for rising rates of West Nile virus, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that can cause meningitis, paralysis, and death.
Politicians continue to turn a blind eye to the links between climate change and public health.
Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history. It was enough to melt the runway at a British air force base.
The World Health Organization has identified climate change as the single biggest health threat facing humanity. Physiology is an essential part of the scientific response as it helps us understand the consequences of climate change for humans and other animals.
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