Climate Health
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A brain-swelling illness spread by ticks is on the rise in Europe
Experts say climate change plays a role: “It’s a really common problem that was absent 20 or 30 years ago.”
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Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria
Climate change is driving mosquitoes to new heights, bringing the bugs, and the diseases they carry, to newly vulnerable populations.
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How climate change is making us sick
Animals, bugs, algae, and even fungi are shifting to accommodate an ever-hotter planet — and they’re bringing dangerous diseases with them.
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The author of ‘Blight’ explains how humans supercharged fungal pathogens
Fungal diseases have come for frogs, bats, and bananas, and they're coming for us, too.
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The EPA’s plan to eliminate lead in buildings is a ‘gigantic leap forward’ for public health
Removing lead from homes, schools, and daycare centers could reduce exposure for half a million children under the age of 6.
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Railroaded
In the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio, disaster, other train towns wonder: Are we next?
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How air pollution and the housing crisis are connected
When you're homeless, dangerous air isn't just during wildfire season.
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Here are the chances your water supply is contaminated by ‘forever chemicals’
If you live in America, it's a coin toss.
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Canadian wildfire smoke brings another wave of ‘very unhealthy’ air to the Midwest, East Coast
It likely won't be the last time this summer.
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Extreme heat will cost the US $1 billion in health care costs — this summer alone
High temperatures could lead to 235,000 ER visits and 56,000 hospital admissions for heat-related conditions annually.
