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.

Increases in three climate factors—temperature, rainfall, and ocean warming—can predict mosquito population growth in Sri Lanka for the next one to six months, according to a new study.

Leaders of Commonwealth nations met in Rwanda’s capital Friday to tackle climate change, tropical diseases and other challenges deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, will certainly make the IPCC—and other environmental bodies—take notice.

According to a new report released by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), climate change is threatening the health of billions of people worldwide through a range of both direct and indirect pathways, including heat-related mortality and morbidity, extreme weather events such as droughts or floods, decreases in crop yields, changes in the distribution of vector-borne diseases, and wildfires causing widespread exposure to air pollution.

The consensus among scientists is that we are in an era of global heating and extreme weather events, primarily due to the devastating effects of human action on the environment. Why are researchers concerned, and what are the implications for health?

Each month, Abt experts from two disciplines explore ideas for tackling these challenges in our monthly podcast, The Intersect.

A popular idea to soften the blow of global warming might also make the world’s malaria problem even worse.

Record floods linked to climate change have left the people of South Sudan in crisis.