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May 23, 2024

Climate: More people died from hot or cold weather conditions than COVID in parts of UK

Research has highlighted how weather extremes worsened by climate change are now a major national public health threat. The study, led by the University of Bristol...

March 6, 2024

Gen Z’s climate anxiety is real

Gen Z’s climate anxiety is real and needs action — for everyone’s wellbeing: New Curtin University research has shown Australian young people have major concerns...

January 22, 2024

Air Pollution and Cardiometabolic Health: Diet’s Mitigating Role

Air pollutants affect cardiometabolic health even at low levels, but diet may mitigate the outcomes. Exposure to air pollutants, even at very low concentrations, was...

January 9, 2024

Climate Change’s Impact on Babies’ Birthweight

Climate Change's Impact on Babies' Birthweight for gestational age: Climate change could pose a big risk to Australians’ reproductive health with a new, large-scale Curtin...

November 30, 2023

WHO’s annual malaria report spotlights the growing threat of climate change

WHO’s annual malaria report spotlights the growing threat of climate change: Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria...

November 29, 2023

Ultrafine particles from traffic disturb human olfactory cell function

Exposure to ultrafine particles from traffic alters the expression of many genes in human olfactory mucosa cells, a new study shows. The study, led by...

November 24, 2023

WHO: Climate change is an urgent threat to pregnant women and children

Climate change is an urgent threat to pregnant women and children: Pregnant women, babies and children face extreme health risks from climate catastrophes that warrant...

November 4, 2023

Interconnected challenges of climate change & nutrition

Launched on 25th Otober, two reports outlining both the pathways through which nutrition and climate are connected and the current state of action on addressing...

October 21, 2023

River sampling study shows impact of COVID-19 pandemic on London’s waterways

The most detailed study of a city’s waterways anywhere in the world has revealed how chemical pollutants in London’s rivers changed over the pandemic. In...

September 25, 2023

Extreme heat likely to wipe out humans and mammals

A new study shows unprecedented heat is likely to lead to the next mass extinction since the dinosaurs died out, eliminating nearly all mammals in...