The Australian government may have announced its net zero plan, but it has yet to factor in the health sector or the health of its people.
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This is not an imaginary future dystopia. It’s a scientific projection of Australia under 3°C of global warming – a future we must both strenuously try to avoid, but also prepare for.
Extreme heat could kill 5,000 people each year in the UK by the 2050s.
Heat waves can kill via dehydration caused by heavy sweating. Breathing or heartbeat may suddenly stop. Prolonged overheating can also create widespread inflammation.
Heatwaves are here to stay, and they aren’t all sun and games.
Climate change is anticipated to cause a rise in the incidence of several diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Do you have a question about climate change? This collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre gives you the chance to ask – and we’ll provide expert answers.
As organs go, lungs do not receive a lot of attention, and diseases associated with them, such as lung cancer, historically have been underfunded. Here’s a look at how your amazing lungs function.
Only half of Australia’s mozzies have been officially diagnosed, so how are scientists able to identify the others to help fight disease?
Many parts of the US have experienced extreme heat or extreme cold in the past year. Recent research projects that climate change will increase deaths from both types of weather, especially cold spells.
2016 is the third consecutive hottest year on record. How can we adapt?
The unanticipated public health consequences of unsustainable development reminds the world that the issues are not in the distant future, but instead face us now.
Academics are studying whether talking about climate change as a health risk, rather than an environmental or economic issue, will dispel Americans’ general indifference to global warming.
Tackling climate change is the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century, a team of 60 international experts today declared in a special report for the medical journal The Lancet.
The Gates Foundation is being urged to dump its sizeable fossil fuel assets. Bill Gates cares deeply about world health and development, both of which are affected by climate, but will his charity divest?
Climate change will cause all sorts of problems for humans in the future. It could cause mass migration and conflict as people flee flooded homes or arid farmland, and fight over ever more scarce resources…
Chikungunya is a virus transmitted to people by mosquitoes; it usually causes a non-fatal but debilitating illness. Despite thousands of people being infected each year in Africa, Asia and Melanesia, chikungunya…
An influential US blog about climate change recently featured the story of a “brain-eating” infectious parasite that has caused 31 deaths in that country in the past decade. “Brain-eating” is just one…
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Adjunct professor, Monash University
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Dean Students, College of Health, Adelaide University
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia State University
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Professor - Environment, Climate and Global Health at Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor in Environmental Health, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Communication, Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Northeastern University
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Professor of Finance and Julian Simon Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University
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Professor Environment and Health, University of Otago
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford
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Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland