US Health Costs from Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Pollution Top $820B a Year
New NRDC report synthesizes dozens of scientific research papers and is among the first to tally a broad financial toll on public health from climate-change-driven...
Health Costs of Air Pollution and Climate Change Exceed $800 Billion
In a new report by The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate...
Unless policy shifts, climate change puts human health at risk, finds RTI study
A new study from RTI International projects global chronic hunger unless policy is put in place to combat the negative effects that climate change could...
Early research suggests climate change could lead to more stillbirths
Scientists are investigating whether rising global temperatures may lead to more stillbirths, saying further study is needed on the subject as climates change.
How Cutting Methane Emissions Can Move the Needle on Climate Change
Cutting methane emissions is a cost-effective and relatively quick way to limit global temperature rise, according to a new United Nations–backed report. Only in the...
How Hospitals Can Help Patients and the Planet
As climate change moves from a model of the future to the reality of the present, health care systems across the country are facing a...
Reducing methane is crucial for protecting climate and health, and it can pay for itself – so why aren’t more companies doing it?
Methane, the main ingredient in natural gas, is a larger climate problem than the world anticipates, and cutting its emissions will be crucial to slow...
Climate Anxiety Makes Good Sense
Even as we begin to emerge from the stress of the pandemic year, mental-health professionals are noting a steady uptick in a different form of...