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How expectant parents can prepare for extreme weather - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Apr 15) |
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Expectant parents may spend months preparing to give birth - developing a relationship with a doctor or midwife, arranging a babysitter for other children when it’s time, and mapping the best route to the hospital.
But during an extreme weather disaster, things may not go as planned.
Smith-Johnson: “So I would suggest for people to start now doing their due ... Read more ...
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Puerto Rico declares an emergency as cases of dengue fever spike - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Apr 11) |
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Puerto Rico has declared a public health emergency as cases of dengue fever, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne infection, rise precipitously across the United States territory. In the emergency order, the commonwealth’s department of health said it had recorded 549 cases of the disease this year so far, a 140 percent increase over the same period a year ago.
The ... Read more ...
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As temperatures warm, valley fever fungus vastly expands its range - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Apr 8) |
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Hiking beneath giant saguaro cactuses and around creosote bushes, Ramsey searches for animal burrows. “I’ve been to rat burrows and ones with badgers, rabbits, even squirrels,” she explains. “In fact, any burrow used by a mammal will do.”
When Ramsey finds a burrow, she puts on the mask and collects samples of dirt from a few inches below the surface and spoons ... Read more ...
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Group to monitor air pollution in 12 U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Mar 29) |
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In the U.S., Hispanic people are disproportionately exposed to harmful air pollution.
They’re more likely to work outdoors in agriculture or construction, so they may be more exposed to wildfire smoke.
And in many areas, neighborhoods with large Hispanic populations are more likely to be located near highways, or oil and gas plants - sources of pollution that can worsen heart and lung diseases.
Rosas: “When the air quality is not OK, we … want to bring awareness to that so we can make positive change for our communities and for the next ... Read more ...
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'People were scared.’ How a maternal care nonprofit stepped up for families after Maui’s wildfires - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Mar 21) |
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Last summer, wildfires roared across part of Hawaii’s Maui Island. In the town of Lahaina, the fires destroyed more than 2,000 homes and buildings.
Smith-Johnson: “People had to leave all of their belongings and leave literally with the clothes on their back. And as you’re thinking about someone who’s preparing for birth, who just had a child and in their immediate postpartum, or in the throes of postpartum, what does that look like?”
Tanya Smith-Johnson is a certified midwife and the policy director for the Healthy Mothers, Healthy ... Read more ...
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Losing sleep in extreme heat waves hurts pregnant people, newborns - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Mar 20) |
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Climate change has made pregnancy and childbearing more treacherous in regions of the world most vulnerable to extreme heat. In Mumbai, searing heat in the summer of 2022, topping 38 degrees Celsius (104 F) during the day, made 23-year-old Madhuri Bolake lose so much sleep she actually thought about getting an abortion.
“Even after turning on the ceiling fan at the maximum speed, I found it difficult to fall asleep,” she recalled. “Often, I woke up in the middle of the night.” (Like others interviewed for this story, she spoke in the regional Marathi ... Read more ...
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As threats to air quality rise, communities deploy low-cost air monitoring networks - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Mar 19) |
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It’s a universal fear - getting an F in a class or a paper. But what happens when an entire region fails?
Take the Imperial Valley, which frequently receives low or failing grades for air quality. This agricultural hub in Southern California - ranked as one of the state’s poorest counties - is plagued by air pollution from agricultural burns, desert dust, wildfire smoke, and even pollution from the ongoing evaporation of the Salton Sea.
In response, community groups began working in 2007 to develop and implement the Identifying Violations ... Read more ...
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I’m a doctor. Here’s what Western medicine misunderstands about nature. - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Feb 28) |
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I still flush with embarrassment when I relive the moment.
It was 20 years ago. I was a shy medical student. In class, we were learning about heart disease - its causes and the drugs that could be used to treat it.
After the lecture, I quietly approached the professor. I asked him, what about yoga? Could incorporating yoga be beneficial for heart patients?
His response was swift and dismissive, dripping with skepticism. Yoga, he said, is nothing more than a New Age exercise, far removed from the realm of serious medicine.
The ridicule ... Read more ...
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How your editors deal with climate grief - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Feb 15) |
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When the Yale Climate Connections editors got together to chat recently, the conversation turned to climate grief. Working as climate journalists every day, we’re frequently exposed to loss alongside hope for the future. In this conversation, we talk about how climate grief affects us and how we manage it.
This roundtable discussion has been edited and condensed.
Sam: I’ve been gathering data for a story documenting the death toll of climate change in 2023. And initially, I was like, “Is this going to be a very stressful, sad experience?” ... Read more ...
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Climate change is hurting kids’ mental health, report finds - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jan 4) |
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Surviving a hurricane or wildfire can be traumatic. And people who are displaced from their homes may suffer anxiety, PTSD, or depression.
Children are especially vulnerable because they may not have coping skills yet. And they depend on adults, who may be struggling themselves.
Manning: “So they experience those things firsthand, but then they also often are impacted by their parents’ emotional distress at living through that same disaster.”
Christie Manning of Macalester College is co-author of a recent report on climate change and ... Read more ...
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Climate change stresses physical and mental health in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jan 4) |
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Puerto Rico has seen an alarming increase in deaths over the last two years caused by cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, and mental health conditions like overdose, alcoholism, and dementia. There are a number of reasons for this, but the Fifth National Climate Assessment released last month warned that more intense and frequent hurricanes and other extreme weather events caused by climate change will likely bring more illness, higher mortality, and an overall decrease in quality of life to citizens in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin ... Read more ...
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Air pollution made Alejandro Daly sick. Now he fights for clean air. - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Dec 20) |
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In 2014, Alejandro Daly fled political unrest in his home country of Venezuela. The 18-year-old moved to Bogotá, Colombia - a bustling city with lots of buses spewing diesel fumes.
Daly was born with asthma, and he says his condition worsened in his new home.
Daly: “At the beginning, I didn’t know what air pollution was, but I saw that something was affecting me.”
He started to learn about the connections between burning fossil fuels, air pollution, and human health - and decided to fight for change.
Daly helped lead a campaign that ... Read more ...
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The surprising connection between eco-anxiety and loneliness - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Dec 19) |
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The climate crisis isn’t just altering our physical environments. It could even be transforming our minds and how we connect to each other.
Many people are experiencing escalating anxiety levels about the potential for extreme weather events and the safety of their homes, property, and livelihoods. Still more are numbed by general ennui about how the planet and our existence are being fundamentally altered. And evidence is growing that in addition to altering our environment, the climate crisis could be transforming our minds.
“Climate change is ... Read more ...
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As temperatures rise, so do Georgia ER visits for venomous snake bites - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Dec 13) |
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On a warm day, lots of people head outdoors to hike and enjoy nature. And they’re not the only ones taking advantage of the weather.
Scovronick: “Snakes are coldblooded, which means their body temperatures and their behaviors are influenced by the ambient temperature. So the outdoor temperature influences how active they are.”
Noah Scovronick was part of a team at Emory University that wanted to learn how changes in temperature affect the prevalence of snake bites in Georgia. The state is home to dozens of snake species, including seven that are ... Read more ...
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Telehealth can help rural and underserved kids access care - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Dec 8) |
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Technology is making it easier for children with asthma to get the care they need.
At some schools, they can now go to the nurse’s office for a telehealth visit with a provider many miles away.
Katherine Chike-Harris at the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing says it’s like any video call but on a computer connected to medical devices, such as an electronic stethoscope.
Chike-Harris: “It’s plugged into the audio port of the computer and so we can actually listen to the heart and lungs.”
Asthma affects about 5 ... Read more ...
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The key point that COP28 is ignoring - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Dec 7) |
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I had to flee from the Camp Pendleton fire while recovering from my second open-heart surgery, still bandaged, unable to drive, and only able to escape due to the kindness of a neighbor.
The day I flew from California for the last time, I was suffering from breathing difficulties as a result of yet another wildfire, where even closed windows couldn’t keep out the soot and lingering smell of smoke from the indoor air.
And as a caregiver for a blind parent with mobility difficulties, I’ve experienced having to decide between staying in a house ... Read more ...
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Don’t sleep on soot - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Nov 21) |
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Somesh Roy was about 10 years old when he discovered a history book depicting ancient cave paintings. The images captivated him. Inside his home in West Bengal, India, which lacked electricity, he used candlelight to gawk at the pages after dark.
“I knew I was going to be a historian when I grew up,” Roy says, flashing a smile to acknowledge his unconventional path. “Of course, if you’re going to be a historian, you become an engineer.”
Working both in the lab and classroom at Marquette University in Milwaukee, the mechanical engineer has carved ... Read more ...
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Up to 20% of lung cancer patients never smoked - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Nov 14) |
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More than 200,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with lung cancer every year. And smoking is not always to blame.
Gomez: “Approximately 10-20% of patients who have lung cancer are never-smokers.”
Jorge Gomez is an oncologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
He says that several environmental risk factors contribute to lung cancer in nonsmokers.
Some of the biggest are secondhand smoke and radon. But air pollution - caused in part by burning fossil fuels - has also been linked to the ... Read more ...
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Unhoused people are especially vulnerable to wildfire smoke - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Nov 9) |
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When dangerous wildfire smoke fills the air, public health agencies issue warnings to keep people safe.
Kasdin: “The first thing we hear is for people to go inside, close their windows. And those are simply things that are not a possibility for people living on the streets.”
Lucy Kasdin directs Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless in California’s Bay Area.
She says unhoused people have a hard time escaping the smoke.
They’re also more likely to suffer from health conditions - such as asthma and COPD - that increase the danger ... Read more ...
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Five ways climate change makes it harder for doctors to help their patients - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Nov 2) |
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Burns from contact with hot pavement can be difficult to treat and can take a long time to heal.
Dr. Joanne Leovy, a family physician who has practiced in Las Vegas, Nevada, for nearly 22 years, recently talked through a case with a physician-in-training who was treating one such burn injury this summer. An unhoused man - released from the emergency department after receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition - was brought back to the emergency room less than two hours later with severe burns on his feet after contact with a scorching hot sidewalk. Read more ...
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Climate change is making fall allergy season last weeks longer - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Oct 31) |
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In late summer and early fall, when the ragweed plant is in bloom, people with allergies often suffer from congestion, a runny nose, and itchy eyes.
Bridgette Jones is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine and an allergist at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.
Jones: “I usually tell my patients that we start to see ragweed around the back-to-school time, so usually in August, and then the ragweed usually clears from the air when it starts to get really cold after we’ve gotten ... Read more ...
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New books and reports about climate change and your health - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Oct 30) |
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After a hot, smoky summer that made the health hazards posed by climate change painfully clear, we concluded that it was time to provide an updated selection of books and reports on climate change, medicine, and public health. (Earlier lists were published in 2019 and 2017.)
This new selection begins with three global overviews, two of which are available as free downloads.
The next three titles are more tightly focused on the health challenges climate change poses both for our children and older adults and on how support networks and ... Read more ...
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Wildfire smoke can infiltrate your home, even when windows are closed - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Oct 10, 2023) |
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In recent years, wildfire smoke has brought hazy, orange skies to many American cities.
Breathing this smoke can be hazardous to your health, so people are encouraged to stay indoors when the air quality is poor.
But staying inside may not be enough to keep you safe.
Ethan Walker of the University of Montana was part of a team that studied the air quality in 20 Montana homes during the 2022 wildfire season.
“Some homes had pretty good air quality indoors through the wildfire season, and others, we found that air pollution indoors was ... Read more ...
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People with Alzheimer’s disease face higher risks in heat waves - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Oct 04, 2023) |
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Millions of Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and they may be especially vulnerable when it’s hot.
Howard Chang is at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. His team analyzed hospital data from California, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, and New York.
They found that when summer temperatures were high for three days in a row, people were more likely to visit the emergency department.
That was true for those with Alzheimer’s and the general population.
“But if you look at the degree of impact, we see that the ... Read more ...
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Gun violence rises with the temperature - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Oct 03, 2023) |
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As cities try to reduce gun violence, they may face an unexpected roadblock: heat.
A recent study finds that hotter-than-normal days come with a higher risk of shootings.
“I think the key finding from the study is that almost 7% of shootings in U.S. cities are attributable to daily temperature differences,” says Jonathan Jay, a public health researcher at Boston University and one of the study authors.
The exact link between heat and gun violence is not yet clear, but Jay says that when it’s hot and people are uncomfortable, they’re more ... Read more ...
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Electric vehicles may improve a community’s health - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Sep 27, 2023) |
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Electric vehicles are widely promoted as a climate solution. But they can also be a public health solution because, unlike gas-powered cars, electric vehicles do not emit harmful tailpipe pollution.
Erika Garcia of the University of Southern California was part of a team that studied the health benefits of transitioning to electric vehicles.
“We found that within ZIP codes, over time, greater increases in the number of zero-emission vehicles was associated with lower rates of asthma emergency department visits,” she says.
Garcia’s colleague ... Read more ...
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Feeling anxious about climate change? Check out these strategies. - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Sep 25, 2023) |
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Thinking about climate change is no fun. Indeed, it can be downright painful. But as climate disasters grow more obvious and immediate, the topic keeps getting harder to ignore. So many of us need to cope again and again with uncomfortable emotions.
Here are some especially useful perspectives and tools for this recurring and important task.
Anger, sadness, guilt, hope: on the complex emotions of climate change. Hannah Ritchie, Sustainability by Numbers (newsletter). Subhead: “It’s perfectly normal to cycle through a range of emotions when ... Read more ...
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After a Pittsburgh coal processing plant closed, ER visits plummeted - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Aug 31, 2023) |
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Pittsburgh, in its founding, was blessed and cursed with two abundant natural resources: free-flowing rivers and a nearby coal seam. Their presence made the city’s 20th-century status as a coal-fired, steel-making powerhouse possible. It also threw so much toxic smoke in the air that the town was once described as “hell with the lid off.”
Though air quality laws strengthened over the decades, pollution in Pittsburgh and surrounding Allegheny County has remained high, ranking among the 25 worst metro areas in the United States for fine, easy-to-inhale ... Read more ...
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Community and free clinics can help vulnerable patients prepare for extreme weather - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Aug 22, 2023) |
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Community health centers and free clinics serve patients who are especially vulnerable to climate change. Many have chronic conditions that put them at higher risk during extreme heat.
“And many of the patients also work outdoors … so they are faced with extreme weather, even when, for most people, they’re able to escape,” says Saqi Maleque Cho of Americares, a health-focused relief and development organization.
Her group recently worked with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to create a tool kit for clinics.
It includes ... Read more ...
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What new data reveal about how hurricanes kill - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Aug 09, 2023) |
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On Tuesday, new research released by the National Hurricane Center underscored the threat posed by water in hurricanes - finding that over the past decade, rainfall flooding has accounted for nearly 60% of all U.S. deaths from tropical cyclones.
Though previous research concluded storm surge - seawater pushed ashore by the strong winds of a hurricane - accounted for nearly half of all U.S. tropical cyclone deaths from 1963-2012, since 2013 storm surge has been ... Read more ...
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Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023 - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Aug 08, 2023) |
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At nine years old, Carter Vigh loved soccer, his friends, and dancing to music.
“He was just the kid that everybody wanted to hang out with, and he was always willing to make the time for anybody and willing to stand up for anyone that was being bullied or sad,” said Carter’s mom, Amber Vigh. “He was tiny but mighty.”
Carter also had asthma. The hot ... Read more ...
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For unhoused people in America’s hottest large city, heat waves are a merciless killer - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jul 24, 2023) |
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“I’ve been down here far too many years,” Shy said with resignation but no self-pity. “It’s not a pretty sight.”
Arms crossed, the 40-year-old Oregon native stood in front of the rough shelter she had built out of plastic tarps, discarded carpets, and a piece of felt the size of an SUV, all attached by carabiners and twine to an old Coleman tent with holes in the side.
But Shy wasn’t talking about the other jury-rigged structures, beater bikes, or scattered piles of trash surrounding her. She was referring to the daily struggle to survive in the ... Read more ...
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Flu-like valley fever is on the rise. There’s a climate connection. - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jul 13, 2023) |
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Valley fever is a flu-like illness that’s growing increasingly common across hot, dry regions of California and the Southwest.
In 2019, about 20,000 cases of valley fever were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That’s about seven times more cases than were reported just 20 years ago.
Daniel Tong is an associate professor at George Mason University. He explains that valley fever is caused by inhaling a soil-dwelling fungus called coccidioides.
“What we know is that soil is the place the fungus will grow,” he says. Read more ...
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Extreme heat will cost the U.S. $1 billion in health care costs - this summer alone - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jul 10, 2023) |
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Extreme heat - summertime temperatures and humidity that exceed the historical average - is being made more frequent and intense by climate change. In the first two weeks of June, a late-spring hot spell prompted schools in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Great Lakes areas to close or send students home early. A heat wave broke temperature records in Puerto Rico - the heat index, a measure of how temperatures feel to the human body, reached 125 degrees Fahrenheit on parts of the island. And extreme heat spurred deadly storms and power outages for hundreds ... Read more ...
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Dust storms are on the rise in the Southwest. That could harm health. - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jul 05, 2023) |
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As the climate warms, parts of the American Southwest are experiencing more frequent dust storms.
“What happens is there is a mixture of drought or dry conditions, higher temperatures, and reduced soil moisture, as well as wind, that come together and create these giant walls of sand and dust,” says Dr. Caitlin Rublee, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado.
She says these events are harmful to human health. The airborne particles can hurt people’s eyes, airways, and lungs.
“In severe circumstances, ... Read more ...
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Rising sea levels will isolate people long before they’re underwater - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jul 03, 2023) |
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The Chignecto Isthmus - the low marshy strip connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - may be one of the most vulnerable places in Canada to sea level rise. At just 21 kilometers wide, the interprovincial land bridge is battered on its southwestern flank by the famously extreme tides in the Bay of Fundy. Protected by a network of earthen dikes first constructed in the 1600s, “the tops of the dikes are only a little higher than the spring high tides,” says Jeff Ollerhead, a coastal geomorphologist at Mount Allison University, located in Sackville, New ... Read more ...
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How climate change harms children’s health - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jun 29, 2023) |
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The fondest times of my childhood were the annual burst of flowers each spring. Not so for my kids, who sniffle and sneeze their way through pollen season.
With average temperatures growing warmer, trees here in Atlanta are flowering earlier in the year, blooming longer, and releasing more pollen than when I was a kid.
That’s led to what I have dubbed FOGO - “Fear of Going Outside” - for my children.
They live with weeks of nasal congestion, sleepless nights, tears, frustration, missed days of school, poor performance on spring tests, and ... Read more ...
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Mosquito that can carry viral infections spreads northward in U.S. - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jun 28, 2023) |
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In Florida, Texas, and other parts of the South, a flower pot or a tire sitting in a yard could house unwelcome guests: mosquito eggs of the species Aedes aegypti.
It’s the type of mosquito that transmits dengue, Zika, and yellow fever.
Roxanne Connelly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an expert in mosquito-borne diseases.
“These eggs are drought resistant and they can survive up to several months,” she says. “Once those eggs are covered with water, whether it’s from rainfall or a sprinkler, the eggs will hatch ... Read more ...
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A father and son take a bike trip inspired by climate change - Yale Climate Connections - Health (Jun 16, 2023) |
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Sixteen-year-old John Bramson of North Carolina grew up taking bike rides with his dad, Brian.
“You know, Sunday mornings or Saturday mornings to go grab breakfast. So biking was a big thing for our family,” John Bramson says.
This year, the father and son embarked on their biggest outing yet: a weeklong trek from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Richmond, Virginia.
They were motivated by their concern about climate change. The Bramsons worked with the nonprofit Climate Ride, which helps people organize bike rides that benefit ... Read more ...
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Students push for climate education at medical schools - Yale Climate Connections - Health (May 04, 2023) |
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In 2018, the Camp Fire devastated parts of northern California. Dangerous smoke filled the skies of San Francisco more than 150 miles away.
At the time Karly Hampshire was a first-year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco.
“We were walking to school every day in N95 masks through this really hazy, creepy, eerie dusk,” she says. “But despite the fact that we were in our respiratory health block at the time, there was really no mention of the health effects of climate change. And that felt like a real disconnect in our ... Read more ...
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