The Trump administration killed the National Climate Assessment. The researchers who were working on it aren't giving up ...

The Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health listed climate change as one of 17 issues that could end humanity by 2100. The authors wrote, “The threats span disease, social and ...

Obesity-related risks could account for 23.1 billion potentially avoidable DALYs by 2100, followed by low educational ...

Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

Much health advocacy is driven by single-issue activism. Communities with a common interest—from AIDS to child health, ...

A new Lancet Commission identifies 17 interlinked catastrophic threats to human health and survival by 2100 and sets out a ...

Climate change is a threat to countries' macroeconomic and fiscal stability. Extreme weather events exacerbated by global warming alone are costing the world $143 billion every year. However, measures ...

The total footprint of buildings along flood-prone riverbanks in the Himalayas grew by half in recent years, a study found. By Raymond Zhong It takes a long time to build new nuclear plants. So, some ...

According to WWF, climate change and deforestation could convert the majority of the Amazon rainforest into savanna, with massive impacts on the world’s biodiversity and climate. Curitiba, Brazil – ...

The World Stroke Organization is warning that climate change poses an escalating threat to brain health, with extreme heat in particular increasing the risk of having a stroke and of patients dying ...

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