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Beyond Catastrophe: a New Climate Reality is Coming Into View
Twitter LinkedIn You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives. Twitter LinkedIn
Climate Change Brings New Pest & Disease Pressures Previously Unimaginable
Twitter LinkedIn In temperate zones lie most of the world’s richest countries, which have also been up till now the world’s major breadbaskets, in meeting international grain, oilseed and livestock product needs. Twitter LinkedIn
The Coldest Year of the Rest of Their Lives
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Tanzania Has Made Huge Progress Against Malaria. Climate Change Threatens to Derail It.
Twitter LinkedIn 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…
Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
Twitter LinkedIn 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. Twitter LinkedIn
US health officials brace for mosquito-borne virus that can cause paralysis and death as temperatures rise
Twitter LinkedIn 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. Twitter LinkedIn
What policymakers get wrong about health and the climate
Twitter LinkedIn Politicians continue to turn a blind eye to the links between climate change and public health. Twitter LinkedIn
As the world heats up, will climate action, too?
Twitter LinkedIn Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history. It was enough to melt the runway at a British air force base. Twitter LinkedIn
3 Climate Factors Predict Upcoming Mosquito Activity
Twitter LinkedIn 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. Twitter LinkedIn
Climate, malaria highlighted as Commonwealth leaders meet
Twitter LinkedIn 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. Twitter LinkedIn
New data reveals climate change might be more rapid than predicted
Twitter LinkedIn A new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, will certainly make the IPCC—and other environmental bodies—take notice. Twitter LinkedIn
Climate change threatens the health of billions of people
Twitter LinkedIn 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…
