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Nell Crowden Activated the Group HP3: Healthy places, healthy people, health planet. The path to healthy green futures..1 day ago -
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Climate and Health Council wrote a new blog: "The Lancet: Leadership at Every Level".A piece in the Lancet today is very relevant to health professionals and managers wanting to take the lead - 'quiet leadership' - on sustainability. "Never before has the need for fluency and integration across the languages and cultures of ...
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Nell Crowden Activated the Group The Netherlands, Climate and health.6 days ago -
Climate and Health Council wrote a new blog: "HEAL News: New Energy Finance Report; European Weather Maps; IPCC Event".
Thank you to our partners at the European Health Alliance (HEAL) for the following updates:1. Setting a higher greenhouse gas reduction target will cost the European Union a minute fraction of its GDP (under 0.04%). This has been the ...
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Nell Crowden activated the event Improving population health in an unstable climate: The role of the educator .9 days ago
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Climate and Health Council wrote a new blog: "New! Guide to the Council".
Dear Members, Please visit our new Guide, which aims to help show you how you can best use this website to facilitate your efforts for improving both sustainability and health. Know. Act. Connect. Persuade. Be ...
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Manirafasha Appolinaire wrote a new blog: "Personal profile".
I am called Appolinaire MANIRAFASHA, Rwandese working as medical doctor in district hospital. I finished my medical training in National university of Rwanda in 2011. While I was in university I was working as a volunteer in different project, ...
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Thinner sea ice may lead to more mercury contamination.
17 May 2012, 2:00 pmThe replacement of thicker sea ice that formed over multiple years in the Arctic with a thinner layer of ice that formed during the last winter is changing the air chemistry above the ice and likely increasing the amount of mercury contamination in the ... -
Extreme rain doubled in US Midwest.
17 May 2012, 2:00 pmThe number of extreme rainstorms - deluges that dump 3 inches or more in a day - doubled in the U.S. Midwest over the last half-century, causing billions of dollars in flood damage in a trend climate advocates link to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions. -
Most mammals won't flee climate change fast enough.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmAs the climate changes over the next century, the ranges of nearly 90 percent of mammal species will shrink – in many cases because animals won't be able to get to areas where the climate is going to become suitable for them, says new research. -
Global warming: New statistical analysis trys to pinpoint temperature increases by region and season.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmAverage temperatures in the Rocky Mountains could soar by more than 6 degrees in the summer and 4 degrees in the winter in the next few decades, according to a new statistical analysis of climate models by researchers at Ohio State University. -
Ocean temperature made Australia floods worse.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmAbnormally high ocean temperatures off the coast of northern Australia contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11, scientists report. -
Elk River sophomore is an algae alchemist.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmElk River sophomore Josh Wolf has a lofty goal -- helping to solve the world's fuel crisis -- using a humble tool: algae. -
Natural sinks still sopping up carbon.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmEarth’s ecosystems keep soaking up more carbon as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, new measurements find. The research contradicts several recent studies suggesting that “carbon sinks” have reached or passed their capacity. -
Earth's environment getting worse, not better, says WWF ahead of Rio 20.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmSwelling population, mass migration to cities, increasing energy use and soaring carbon dioxide emissions mean humanity is putting a greater squeeze on the planet's resources then ever before. -
UK climate experiment cancelled on patent concerns.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmBritish scientists have abandoned an experiment to test the possibility of spraying particles into the upper atmosphere to stem global warming, largely due to concerns over a patent for some of the technology, the project's leader said. -
UNESCO partner study for climate variability on migration, mortality.
16 May 2012, 2:00 pmRepresentatives from seven countries in Africa and Asia are meeting in Ghana to assess a study data on the impact of climate variability on Migration and Mortality using the Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems.