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3 days ago · The warming climate doesn’t only melt ice caps and bleach coral reefs but also puts your health at risk. Climate change is no longer a far-removed issue, able to be cast off as a problem “of tomorrow.” Climate change alters health both through long-term stressors, such as air pollution and vector-borne diseases, and through acute events, such as heat waves and hurricanes. These long and ...
3 days ago · Environmental change represents one of the most pressing global challenges of our time, with devastating effects on ecosystems, economies and human health 1.Environmental change differs from ...
1 day ago · Summary. Coastal hazard risk is compounded by climate change. The promise and prospects of adaptation to escalating coastal hazard risk is fraught, even in a country like New Zealand that has laudable provisions for local authorities to be proactive in adapting to climate change.
4 days ago · Climate Change Impacts on AMR Using a Planetary Health Framework (CLIMAR) Network. The CLIMAR Network will examine the relationship between AMR, climate change and pollution. It will connect nature, health, equity and social justice to ensure systems change covering the human, animal and environmental sectors.
4 days ago · Climate extremes impose large impacts on communities through damage to livelihoods and the wider economy, so form an important component of this study. To this end, we use indices from the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) (Zhang et al., 2011 ).
5 days ago · All the evidence indicates that long-term health effects due to silt will not be one of those issues.” Health NZ says while the results of the study on long-term health impacts are very reassuring, public health advice remained in place to support people who experienced short- term symptoms like eye and airway irritations from dust.
5 days ago · When it comes to abrupt climate change, which happens in a span of years or decades, a climate system clings to its current state until it crosses a threshold and is forced into a new one. The warming that terminated the Last Glacial Period is an example of this and continues to be an important reference for what could happen to the planet as ...
