New research looks into young people’s anxiety around environmental collapse.
Satellite data can be used to assess the health impact of dust storms and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Additional applications could be on the horizon.
Health care leaders look for ways to scale back an outsized carbon footprint.
The most common victims of extreme weather events are older people. New research looks into how the health system fails them, and how it can be fixed.
Climate change becomes a flashpoint for a new generation of physician activists.
Slowing climate change is important for our health long term. But cleaning up polluted skies will also yield immediate health benefits.
Public health physician Barry Levy sends a warning about climate change.
Warming temperatures may be causing a global wave of kidney disease.
Eric Chivian, founder of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, worries that some medical mysteries may remain forever unsolved as a result of global climate change.