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 Stories About: climate AND health AND World Health Organization
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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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Death Warmed Over
Climate Change Tied to 150,000 Deaths a Year, WHO Says |
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12 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Death Warmed Over Climate Change Tied to 150,000 Deaths a Year, WHO Says How's this for classic gloom and doom: Climate change led to 150,000 premature deaths in 2000, and the annual number of such deaths could double in 30 years if current warming trends are not reversed, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. Global warming hits hardest in developing countries and tropical areas, where risi ... |
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| Topics: climate, health, World Health Organization (all these topics) |
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