• Health

Climate Change Risks the Lifelong Health of All Kids Alive Today

• climate change
• public health
• public health crisis

According to the Lancet’s 2019 Countdown report, the worst effects of climate change will fall to the youngest, and most dire for them lie ahead.

Bottom Line: Children alive today stand to experience significant public health risks unless we take drastic action on climate change.

• Health

Growing Group of Doctors Talk Climate With Their Patients

• climate change
• health
• public health

by Miro Korenha and Alexandra Patel When you visit your doctor it’s usually to remedy something that’s bothering you or a routine preventative visit, but during those visits has your doctor ever talked to you about climate change and how it might be affecting your health? Even if your doctor hasn’t, a growing number of […]

• Health

Extreme heat in South Florida hurts the most vulnerable

• climate change
• extreme heat
• Florida
• heat stroke
• public health

For years, that discussion had been dominated the impacts of rising sea levels. Now, the state’s medical community is sounding the alarm about the health risks associated with rising temperatures. Whether it’s a longer allergy season, air quality issues or mosquito-borne illnesses, heat is already making people sicker, they say, and the nearly 60% of Miami residents who live paycheck to paycheck could be the most in danger.

• People

Interview of the Week: Lois Schiffer, the Former Top Environmental Enforcer

• enforcement
• Justice Department
• pollution
• public health
• public land

Lois Schiffer is one of the leading environmental lawyers in the United States, having served as the General Counsel of NOAA during the Obama Administration, and as the Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources at the Justice Department during the Clinton Administration, as well as teaching environmental law at Georgetown Law for 30 […]

• Health

Tweet of the week: Dan Rather on science literacy

• climate change
• public health
• science
• science literacy
• vaccines

Many people including the president are cheering news of HIV cure in 2nd patient. You know what happened? SCIENCE. Science isn’t a goal, it’s a process of knowledge. And it applies to vaccines, climate change, and the wonder of understanding our universe and natural world. — Dan Rather (@DanRather) March 5, 2019 This week for […]

• Food

Climate change increases risk of food-borne illness

• climate change
• disease
• food
• food safety
• foodborne illness
• public health
• WHO

As climate change continues to warm our planet, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that governments around the world must take increased precaution to ensure food safety–something that has not received enough political attention. U.N. agencies and the African Union recently met in Ethiopia at an international food safety conference and made the following statement: […]