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After the deluge
As Midwest floods recede, what's being washed into the groundwater? |
Tom Philpott |
16 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Flooded road in eastern Iowa. Photo: Dan Patterson Things are grim in Iowa, arguably the epicenter of global industrial food production. If Iowa were a nation, it would be the globe's second-largest corn producer, behind only China. The state leads the U.S. [PDF] in the production of corn, hogs, and eggs, and ranks number two in soybeans.In short, it's a rotten place for a massive, flood-inducing early-summer deluge. Of the state's 99 counties, 24 have been ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, health, industrial ag, Iowa, severe weather (all these topics) |
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The human side of global warming
Death, disease, and infection, thanks to our friend climate change |
Joseph Romm |
11 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Daniel J. Weiss and Robin Pam of the Center for American Progress have a new article on the health impacts of global warming. As they explain, 'Some of the most severe health effects linked to global warming include the following': More illness and death resulting from heat waves. Worsening air pollution causes more respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Vector-borne disease infections will rise. Changing food production and security may cause hunger. ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change impacts, health, World Health Organization (all these topics) |
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Look, WHO's Talking
World Health Organization says climate change bad for world health |
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07 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 6:49 AM on 07 Apr 2008 Officials at the World Health Organization used the occasion of World Health Day today to stress climate change's negative impacts on human health, warning that warming temperatures are already affecting the spread of disease. Increased temperatures have slowly expanded the range of malaria-carrying mosquitoes into new areas, including South Korea and the highlands of Papua Ne ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, news, World Health Organization (all these topics) |
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You Give Me Fever
Warming climate may lead to spread of dengue fever in U.S., say health officials |
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09 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:18 PM on 09 Jan 2008 Climate change is likely increasing cases of malaria in Kenya, various viral diseases in Australia's outback, and tropical dengue fever in the U.S. "Widespread appearance of dengue in the continental United States is a real possibility," write Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. David Morens in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Climat ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, news (all these topics) |
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Now Where Did We Put That Respirator?
For every 1 degree Celsius globe warms, some 21,000 people could die, says study |
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04 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:06 PM on 04 Jan 2008 For every 1 degree Celsius of anthropogenic global warming, some 21,000 people worldwide could die, including more than 1,000 in the U.S., says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. According to computer modeling by researcher Mark Jacobson, increased air pollution due to rising carbon-dioxide levels will lead to more fatalities. "Th ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change impacts, health, news, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Mamma Mia!
Italian village first host to outbreak of spreading tropical disease |
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27 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:19 AM on 27 Dec 2007 Congratulations to Castiglione di Cervia, Italy, the first place in modern Europe to feel one dismal effect of a warming world: a tropical disease out of its natural habitat. This summer, more than 100 people in the village of 2,000 came down with fever, exhaustion, and terrible bone pain later found to be caused by chikungunya, a disease spread by warm-climate-lovin' tiger mosquitoe ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, Italy, news (all these topics) |
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What You Talkin' 'Bout, Dana?
White House spokesfolks play up health benefits of climate change |
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26 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:34 PM on 26 Oct 2007 Recent Senate testimony on the public-health impacts of climate change by the director of the Centers for Disease Control was watered down because the White House wanted "to focus that testimony on public health benefits," White House spokesperson Dana Perino said this week. She went on to state that U.S. experts are attempting to determine "what are go ... |
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| Topics: Centers on Disease Control and Prevention, climate, climate change impacts, dumbassery , health, news, White House (all these topics) |
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Notable quotable
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David Roberts |
25 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| 'Well, there are public health benefits to climate change, as well, both benefits and concerns ...'-- White House spokeswoman Dana Perino |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, dumbassery, health, quotables (all these topics) |
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Veni, Vidi, Ventricle
Doctors suggest global warming could lead to more heart problems |
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05 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 9:50 AM on 05 Sep 2007 Does global warming make you heartsick? Oh wait, we mistyped. Retry: Does global warming make your heart sick? Some doctors think it might. From the Archives Put Some More Lead on the Barbie. Mattel recalls another batch of lead-painted toys. Your Opinion Is Wrong. National Park Service may ignore public opinion on snowmobiles in parks. Play It Again, ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, news (all these topics) |
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Global warming ...
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David Roberts |
16 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ... will eat your flesh! |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health (all these topics) |
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Too, Too Sullied Flesh
Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride |
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20 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Too, Too Sullied Flesh Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride The next time you chomp a hamburger, think of this: the process of getting that beef to your bun may have spewed more greenhouse-gas emissions than leaving all your house lights blazing while taking a three-hour joyride in your car. Researchers looked at b ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, news (all these topics) |
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Another great benefit of global warming
Especially for dermatologists |
Andrew Dessler |
27 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Those who argue that increasing carbon dioxide is good because it's 'plant food' should consider this article from the WSJ about poison ivy. It says: Poison ivy, the scourge of summer campers, hikers and gardeners, is getting worse. New research shows the rash-inducing plant appears to be growing faster and producing more potent oil compared with earlier decades. The reason? Rising ambient carbon-dioxide levels create ideal conditions for the plant, producing bi ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health (all these topics) |
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Laid to Waste
Portraits of loss in the wake of Katrina |
Chris Jordan |
02 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Click image to watch slide show. Photo by Chris Jordan. On a misty November morning in 2005, I was photographing in New Orleans' Ninth Ward neighborhood a few blocks from where one of the levees had failed 10 weeks earlier. Squatting in a driveway in foul-smelling mud, adjusting the knobs on my camera, I stood up to stretch my back and noticed a man sitting on some concrete s ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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