KFF Health News

JANUARY 21, 2025

. “I could see people standing on the roof, watering it, trying to protect it from the fire, and they just looked so hopeless,” said Ramirez, a community outreach worker with the Pasadena Public Health Department. The widower had leaned on her husband in past emergencies, and now she felt lost. But I didn’t know.”

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

The tool kit was produced in 2022 through a collaboration between Americares , a nonprofit that provides health-focused aid in response to disasters, and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Climate change does not affect all of us equally.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Before Hurricane Helene, had you stopped by one of the many breweries, art galleries, or award-winning restaurants in Asheville, North Carolina, and spoken with anyone who lives in these parts — including me — most would have told you they felt pretty safe from climate disasters. “The water got shut off and we managed.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 8, 2025

So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. “These disaster events keep happening. “These disaster events keep happening. “We have this kind of traumatic experience, and then we’re left with: Well, what did we just breathe in? .

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HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 8, 2025

So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. These disaster events keep happening. They release pollution into the environment and to the surrounding community, said Volckens, who shared his results with local air regulators.

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