Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a stark warning that time is running out to adapt to climate change. Climate change is no longer a future prospect; it’s making people sick right now. degrees Celsius (1.96 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She and her family were living in Charlottesville, where Ahdoot is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. There was a heat wave. Ahdoot made good on that vow.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2023

EVs are also expected to deliver benefits in terms of human health, but this has not been extensively studied. Now a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have begun to document the actual respiratory impact of EV adoption in a study that uses real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What business practices should change?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

People living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, according to health experts cited in a 16 March report from the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), an advocacy group. Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk in Europe, with the problem greatest in cities, according to the EEA.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Climate change activists could learn from and utilise the current covid-19 crisis, to make this short-term environmental windfall become a lasting victory. By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS Unfortunately, there is no “easy” climate change solution equivalent to coughing into your elbow or washing your hands for 20 seconds.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. percent in South Asia.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., and Zoetis Inc.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2019

Specifically, it covered dietitians and nutrition scientists, clinicians and biomedical researchers, and (here we go) environmental health specialists and environmental scientists. In other words: nutrition, doctors, and climate change. It’s an outcome familiar to climate communication researchers. Which: Uh oh.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. . For example, our deepening understanding of DNA helps us discern how drugs, medication, multi-vitamins or treatment plans work differently in patients — creating a brand-new frontier, personalized medicine.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I presumed that an influential medical institution such as ours would have no choice but to recognize the well-documented threats to human health posed by the climate crisis and fossil fuels. The National Academy of Medicine says climate change “represents one of most significant threats to human health in the 21st Century.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

UK Health Alliance on Climate Change sets out sweeping proposals to boost demand for low emission foods, including plans for a new food carbon tax. Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, ambassador for the Alliance, said it was vital that food and diets are considered as part of both the health and climate policy agendas.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He was also a technical contributor to the report’s chapter on human health (and was featured on this year’s Grist 50 list ). on the disproportionate burdens and unique risks that queer and trans people face from climate impacts. At the time, there was essentially no research in the U.S. Yeah, absolutely.

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Grist

MARCH 18, 2020

For pandemics and climate change, voluntary measures aren’t enough. Coronavirus postpones major climate plan in Congress. billion people, and we’re really destroying the natural habitat of lots and lots and lots of other species,” said Frank Snowden, a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at Yale University.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cannabidiol (CBD) has become a household name in the health and wellness industry, primarily due to its powerful medicinal properties. Not only can the compound help to treat conditions like pain, anxiety, inflammation, and nausea. But it can also prevent these conditions from occurring in the first place.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

What we do have, when it comes to regulations that address climate change, is a decidedly duller but still effective tool called the social cost of carbon, or SCC. Experts have also criticized the government’s method for not adequately accounting for the range of uncertainty in the underlying climate and economic models.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

Green , and James Bee On 17 January 2024, the government launched the Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy (the strategy), which aims to safeguard UK supplies of goods including medicine, minerals, and semiconductors. The strategy thus focuses on ensuring reliable access to critical imports for present and future needs.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Scientists know, for example, that at least 3,200 plastic chemicals pose risks to human health or the environment. more than $900 billion in health expenses annually. Because so many plastics and petrochemical products are traded internationally, some endocrinologists and public health authorities believe a global approach is needed.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

One objection to environmentally friendly diets is that by limiting specific sources of key nutritients, such as fish and dairy, people can risk undermining individual health even as they benefit the health of the planet. The government guidelines were first published in 2016.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It also extends to climate justice. Climate Change. Contributors. Nicholas Kusnetz.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The use of CBD is rapidly increasing across various dimensions – be it medicinal or skincare. However, the hype of CBD is significant in its therapeutic use, where the CBD infused products are used for healing insomnia, depression, acne, and various other health issues.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This, the largest analysis of global coral reef health ever undertaken draws on data: spanning 40 years. Corals reefs across the world are under relentless stress from warming caused by climate change and other local pressures such as overfishing, unsustainable coastal development and declining water quality. in 73 countries.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2020

This new study from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington found that the population might peak at 9.7 Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. The authors of this new paper acknowledge that their findings are good news for those who seek to reverse climate change and save orangutans.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

Climate change-induced warmer temperatures are causing many plants in temperate climates to exhibit spring behavior, like blooms and budburst, much earlier in the year. This is the case for dozens of medicinal plants in Nepal , where 83 percent of the population relies primarily on herbal remedies. Figure 2.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

Na’im, who previously worked with Last Mile Health and the Clinton Health Access Initiative to address social and health inequities in Liberia and Malawi, recognized climate change would exacerbate these global inequities and turned his attention to work on CDR to fend off — and one day reverse — its harmful effects.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 29, 2020

It reveals the unconscionable immorality of wealth inequality and lays bare the need for universal health care. Although this modern day plague will inflict terrible suffering it may help us to find the resolve to stave off climate change which is a far greater threat to human life and economic well being.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Photos I shot on a flight on September 4, 2021 illustrate what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meant last month when he described the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report as a “code red” for human-driven global heating. Isle de Jean Charles on Aug. 22, 2021, before Ida arrived.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

When coastal flooding happens at these types of facilities, the supplies of energy, food, medicines, goods and services are put at risk.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Politico reported days later that politically-appointed communications officials in the Department of Health and Human Services, led by former Trump campaign operative Michael Caputo, have been manipulating and withholding coronavirus reports generated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since April. s role in climate change.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jesse Merrick, shown here in better health, covers a football game in his job as a sportscaster. One thing is nearly certain, though: Climate change plays a role. She decided to look at what would happen to Valley fever under a high-emissions climate change scenario. Walking was painful. “It Image courtesy CDC/Dr.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The government has been urged draw up a robust 'National Heat Risk Strategy' to tackle the growing threat hot weather is posing to the UK's buildings, infrastructure, and public health, following estimates that at least several hundred people have been killed by high temperatures this summer.

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Defend Our Future

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I ended up going to college in Houston and was originally interested in medicine. For most of my life, I’ve been interested in medicine, public health, and addressing health disparities. I also started to think about climate change as an existential threat, but also as a huge driver for health issues.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The same group voted to take essentially no action on the mounting toll stemming from climate change. From 2017 to 2019, nearly 1,200 Americans were killed annually in climate and weather disasters totaling $154 billion a year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These facts have prompted Scientific American to call Trump's rejection of public health measures "catastrophic". His presidency will be defined by its repeated attacks against the health of Americans.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

But as global temperatures have risen over the decades, the fungus may have evolved to adapt to a warmer climate. Climate change, the theory goes, has trained C. Readers might pick up your book and assume it is entirely focused on the impact of fungal disease on human health. Some researchers theorize that C.

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