Coming Storms: Climate Change And The Rising Threat To America’s Coastal Seniors
A new Climate Central sea-level-rise analysis identifies the assisted living and nursing homes at risk in five states. Experts say waiting to evacuate during storms...
Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as...
WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change
The burden of disease attributable to the environment is high and persistent, and amounts to 13 million deaths each year (one quarter of all deaths),...
Global risk of deadly heat
Climate change can increase the risk of conditions that exceed human thermoregulatory capacity.
Raising Awareness of the Health Impacts of Coal Plant Pollution
In 2000, 2004 and again in 2010, the Clean Air Task Force issued studies based on a methodology and model created by Abt Associates, U.S...
Investors Join Calls for a Food Revolution to Fight Climate Change
A series of new reports shows how climate change is intertwined with the world’s worsening health, and suggests changes in the global food production system.
New Lancet report: The Global Syndemic: Uniting Actions to Address Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change
The Lancet has been busy. Last week, it published a blockbuster report on the need for worldwide dietary changes to improve human health and that...
The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report
Malnutrition in all its forms, including obesity, undernutrition, and other dietary risks, is the leading cause of poor health globally. In the near future, the...