Climate change is forcing animal migrations at an unprecedented scale, bringing many previously disconnected species into close contact and dramatically raising the likelihood of viruses leaping into new hosts and sparking future pandemics. That’s according to a new study in the journal Nature, which predicts that climate-driven disruptions to Earth’s ecosystems will create thousands of... Continue Reading →
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers. For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most do not, because they have few chances... Continue Reading →
We Created the ‘Pandemicene’
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HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE COALITION
The global climate crisis is more urgent than ever. Here's how you can take action. This past June was the hottest June in the recorded history of the United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Rising temperatures have been felt all around the world with countries in Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, also experiencing... Continue Reading →
7 Important Ways You Can Help Relieve Extreme Heat Caused by Climate Change
Heat domes, heat islands, mega-droughts, and climate change: the anatomy of worsening heat waves. The Pacific Northwest is sweltering under a record-breaking heat wave. Portland reached 116 degrees Fahrenheit this week. Seattle reached 108 degrees. Vancouver reached 89 degrees. The searing heat has buckled roads, melted power cables, and led to a spike in deaths. It’s especially concerning in... Continue Reading →
The surprisingly subtle recipe making heat waves worse…
HOW TO LIVE WITH IT Health Risks Climate change isn’t just bad for the planet’s health—it’s bad for people’s too. Effects will vary by age, gender, geography, and socioeconomic status—and so will remedies. A recent international study in the Lancet says that many more people will be exposed to extreme weather events over the next century than... Continue Reading →
Climate Change – 5 Ways It Will Affect You
The European Fund for the Balkans has started a new campaign called “Balkans United for Clean Air” to call upon governments and citizens to prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths caused by pollution every year. Most of the cases of health issues and mortality are caused by exposure to particulate matter which is caused... Continue Reading →
Campaign Launched to Hold Politicians to Account Over Air Pollution and Premature Deaths
For many viewers, watching Chernobyl crystallized parallels between widespread cultural panic around the nuclear threat and what we’re feeling now in the face of climate change. For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. Max St John, 41, had experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past. After reading the global... Continue Reading →
Manage Climate Change Anxiety With These Cold-War Coping Techniques
After Britt Wray married in 2017, she and her husband began discussing whether or not they were going to have children. The conversation quickly turned to climate change and to the planet those children might inherit. “It was very, very heavy,” said Dr. Wray, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School... Continue Reading →
Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It
There has been much controversy surrounding the COVID-19 mask requirements for the past year. Particularly given that Dr. Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization (WHO) originally stated masks were not only unnecessary but potentially unhealthy, only to reverse course. This would be one of many examples of Dr. Fauci contradicting himself, a more recent... Continue Reading →
Is Carbon Dioxide Trapped By Masks Hazardous To Your Health?
For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm on the rise in infectious diseases caused by climate change. But despite bird flu, swine flue, mad cow disease, ebola, and more, these pleas were largely ignored by policymakers and the general public — until a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals to humans. And now here... Continue Reading →
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