U.S. Climate Equity Office Debuts, But With a Tiny Budget
It aims to help communities become more resilient to climate change, particularly its health impacts
Medical Journals Call Climate Change the ‘Greatest Threat to Global Public Health’
A collection of leading health and medical journals called this week for swift action to combat climate change, calling on governments to cooperate and invest...
220 Medical Journals Catch ExxonMobil Between a Climate Justice Rock and a Hard Place
ExxonMobil recently launched a new plan to develop carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) systems, and that has enabled the company to portray itself as a...
Medical Journals Call Climate Change the ‘Greatest Threat to Global Public Health’
A collection of leading health and medical journals called this week for swift action to combat climate change, calling on governments to cooperate and invest...
Cutting air pollution levels could raise life expectancy by 2 years: study
Reducing global air pollution levels to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines would boost average life expectancy by 2.2 years, a new study has...
HHS Establishes Office of Climate Change and Health Equity
Protecting Americans’ health and well-being has always been at the heart of fighting climate change, and now for the first time, its importance is being...
Biden Opens New Federal Office for Climate Change, Health and Equity
Amid deadly heat waves and new evidence showing that wildfire smoke may contribute to premature births, the Biden administration is creating a new federal office...
The Climate Crisis Is a Health Crisis. We Need Your Help.
This summer saw a terrifying onslaught of climate-related disasters and portents—wildfires, floods, extreme temperatures, drought, signs of a collapsing Gulf Stream, an iceberg the size of...