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Global warming and emerging contaminants: Impacts on aquatic organisms and their responses. International Journal of Environmental Research.
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Infectious Diseases Climate Change
Identifying the climate sensitivity of infectious diseases: a conceptual framework. The Lancet Planetary Health.
Climate change may intensify climate-sensitive infectious diseases, which vary by seasonality, geography, and climate-linked variation. Understanding pathogen, vector, and host responses can inform early warning systems and strengthen health system resilience and adaptation.
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Life Stage and Reproductive Health Noncommunicable Diseases
Identifying the impact and critical windows of extreme temperatures on the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus in twin pregnancies. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation.
Analyzing 3,769 twin pregnancies, this study links extreme heat and cold exposure to increased gestational diabetes risk. Critical windows of susceptibility were identified, underscoring the need to consider temperature extremes in maternal health strategies.
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Noncommunicable Diseases Climate Change
How Climate Change and Extreme Weather can Hurt Your Health
This article explains how climate change and extreme weather harm physical and mental health. Experts, including PHA’s Sam Myers, highlight risks like heat illness, disease spread, food insecurity, disaster trauma, and climate anxiety.
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Noncommunicable Diseases Climate Change
Severe flooding and cause-specific hospitalisation among older adults in the USA: a retrospective matched cohort analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health.
This large-scale study examined over 4.5 million hospital records from adults over 65 in the U.S. and found that severe flooding was linked to higher hospitalization rates for skin, nervous system, and musculoskeletal diseases, and injuries.
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Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: Report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. The Lancet.
