Aug 29, 2019 Webinar – Climate Change: What’s natural, what’s human-caused, and how do we know?
Join this webinar to explore this complex question through case studies focused on extreme storms in the northeast USA and glacial melting in Greenland.
Aug 27 to Dec 12, 2019 – Policy Advocacy on Climate Change: Online Course
This graduate course will provide participants with step-by-step skills in utilizing the tools of democracy to take meaningful civic action on climate change. Participants will learn the levers for building....
Video: Extreme Heat and Health
This video shares the stories of a heat educator and a pediatrician in North Carolina who have been dealing with the health impacts of increasingly extreme heat. It also talks....
NextGenU: Climate Change and Health Certificate Course
This FREE Climate Change and Health Certificate course teaches about the effects of climate change on human health, and gives a chance to practice techniques to reduce those effects.
Prioritizing Health in a Changing Climate
Drs. Renee N. Salas, Debra Malina, and Caren G. Solomons write about how the medical community have a responsibility and opportunity to mobilize the urgent, large-scale climate action required to....
A New Era of Climate Medicine – Addressing Heat-Triggered Renal Disease
As stewards of community health, Drs. Cecilia Sorensen and Ramon Garcia-Trabanino write about seeing the casualties of climate change firsthand.
Aug 20, 2019 – Webinar: Protecting Lung Health During Wildfires
The American Lung Association invites you to join a webinar for health professionals to learn about the impacts of wildfire smoke and information and resources to protect your patients during....
How climate change threatens public health
From prolonged droughts to dangerous sun exposures, the weather affects human health in numerous ways, and climate change has already ratcheted environmental health threats up a notch. Disease-carrying bugs have....
Public Service Commission should set ambitious energy saving goals for power companies
As physicians on the front line of public health, Drs. Cheryl Holder and Todd Sack know that energy efficiency reduces pollution, improves human health, and lowers energy costs.
Climate change is making us sicker
Dr. Homan Wai writes about the increasing health impacts, due to our warming and increasingly unstable climate. The time to act is now to protect our health!
IPCC Report: Climate Change and Land
An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Medical Schools Are Pushed to Train Doctors for Climate Change
More doctors, health organizations and students are pushing for medical education to include climate change, saying that physicians and other health-care workers need to prepare for the risks associated with....
Aug 2 – Webinar: NASA Health and Air Quality Briefing
Join the American Lung Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics on August 2 to hear from NASA Health and Air Quality Program Manager John Haynes.
Climate Change and Health: A Call to Social Workers
Carrie Dorn writes about how social workers can help clients recognize and address emotional, health, and environmental factors to improve well-being.
July 25, 2019 – Webinar: Climate, Health and Equity Town Hall
Join Physicians for Social Responsibility and Peoples Climate Movement for a virtual town hall to learn about the health impacts of climate change on frontline communities.
The climate of American medicine
Dr. Sam Stea appeals to doctors, nurses, friends and peers, that now is the time we must acknowledge climate change as the grave health crisis it will most certainly become....
Forces of nature: Doctors linking environment, climate change to health issues
A growing number of physicians are keen to discuss their concerns about climate change and environmental factors impacting people’s health.
July 2019 Champion!
As the climate crisis intensifies, brutal days become more common, which puts more Floridians in greater danger – a health risk that Dr. Todd Sack wishes more people realized.
Extreme Heat in Miami Will Only Get Worse, Scientists Warn
Miami has broken heat records left and right this summer, but scientists say this is just the beginning.
Climate change a threat to public health
The directors for the Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate write about how climate change is affecting public health in Montana.