With scientists warning that 2024 will likely beat 2023 as the hottest year on record, there is growing acknowledgment that climate change—and especially extreme heat—presents a top threat to global ...

The climate crisis is also an urgent and ongoing health crisis with diverse human impacts leading to physical, mental and cultural losses. Translating knowledge into action involves broad ...

In a recent report published in The Lancet Public Health¸ experts discussed how climate change impacts human health in Europe based on 42 indicators, including ticks, food security, and leishmaniasis.

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In April 2024, a group of Swiss older women won a landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights (The European Court of Human Rights sits in Strasbourg, France, and is an organ of the Council of ...

Extreme heat kills roughly half a million people worldwide each year, but at the current rate of global warming it could be close to five times as deadly by 2050. Then there are the indirect health ...

People around the world face increased risk of heat stroke, asthma attacks and malnutrition. Understanding the driver behind these rising health threats remains critical to solving them. That message ...

The connection between climate and physical health is evident. We know, for instance, that asthma is exacerbated by exposure to wildfire smoke that occurs more commonly during hot, dry, windy ...

Global health is under severe threat from accelerating climate change, with millions of lives at risk annually from heat and ...

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