Maternal Health Task Force

MAY 21, 2024

Climate change is not just a looming environmental crisis; it is also a significant threat to maternal health, amplifying existing vulnerabilities and inequalities. Pregnant women face heightened risks due to climate-related factors such as extreme heat, tornadoes, volcanoes, droughts, and floods.

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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture?

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Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That’s more of a spot check, as Lisa Gill , a health and medicine investigative reporter at Consumer Reports, told me. That’s not because it would harm the companies named — it’s because it could distract from the larger public health issue that might (emphasis on “might”) exist here and the need for further research to find out. “It

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 7, 2025

While climate coverage often focuses on heat, its health impacts have a broader audience appeal. Climate change affects air pollution, diseases and extreme weather. Medical schools across the United States are increasingly incorporating climate change and health into their curricula.

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

New York City is getting rattier, thanks to climate change. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, is the first of its kind to use data to demonstrate the connection between climate change and rats. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Influenza-like illnesses: Moderate and increasing The climate of respiratory health in the United States—which the CDC defines as “influenza-like illnesses” (ILI)—has crossed the “epidemic” threshold and is growing. So, a quick dose of hand sanitizer doesn’t work.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed. Everyone has had to adjust to these changes and more, even as they’ve dealt with similar problems at home. He is an engineering professor at North Carolina State University who focuses on sanitation systems. It’s been that way everywhere.

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