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Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease

Grist

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a stark warning that time is running out to adapt to climate change. Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns. degrees Celsius (1.96

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Good health depends on a stable climate. This fellowship teaches health professionals how to advocate for both.

Grist

The vision “Medicine is a practice. And it’s not hard for people who were trained as clinicians to see that there’s another practice that they can learn, which is community organizing.” From the perils of extreme heat to the spread of infectious diseases, climate change is a health crisis.

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Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate

Grist

In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? The world has changed a great deal since.

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Major Animal Pharma Industry Group Forced to Remove UN Logo from ‘Misleading’ Briefing on Livestock Climate Impact

DeSmogBlog

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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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

Grist

Astrid Riecken / The Washington Post via Getty Images As human-caused climate change continues, the number, intensity and duration of heat waves will only get worse. Pollutants from vehicle combustion, including nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, react in sunlight to form ozone. And the U.S. Overall in India, 8.5

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The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change

Grist

where recent research has found that one in ten premature deaths are caused by air-polluting fossil fuels, medical schools have only begun grappling with a lack of curricula focused on climate change in the last couple of years. The paper says that climate change is already affecting human health in every country on earth.

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Natural CBD Infused Skincare: What’s the Hype and is it Eco-Friendly?

Green Living Guy

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.