February 16, 2017 | Health News
Forbes: Perspectives From Inside The Climate Change-Human Health Conference That Rose From The Dead
By Marshall Shepherd
February 16, 2017 | Health News
STAT News: At a Resurrected Climate Conference, Concerns Loom that CDC Scientists May Be Silenced
By Max Blau
Organizers of a conference on public health and climate change urged policy experts and policymakers to mobilize in the wake of a new administration they say has denied the impact, and even the existence, of global warming.
February 14, 2017 | Health News
Humanosphere: Experts Meet to Address 'Urgent' Climate Threats to Public Health
Environmental health experts are gathering at the Carter Center in Atlanta this week to openly discuss the public health response to climate change, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled the event last month over what some said were fears of running afoul of the U.S. president.
January 27, 2017 | Health News
U.S. News & World Report: Gore, Others Revive Cancelled US Climate and Health Conference
By Seth Borenstein
A conference on climate change and health is back on, but apparently minus the U.S. government.
August 08, 2016 | Health News
NewsBeat: Humans Acclimating to Higher Temps, Mortality Study Shows
First-such research to examine more than 100 years of data; UW environmental-health specialist is co-author
By Ashlie Chandler
Humans are acclimating to higher temperatures on Earth, according to a study co-led by Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor in the School of Public Health.
June 20, 2016 | Health News
NY Times: 'Rare, Dangerous' Heat Headed to Parts of Western US
LOS ANGELES — It's a dry heat, Phoenix residents like to say about Arizona's hot weather. That bravado may vanish as the thermometer flirts with 120 degrees this weekend.
Phoenix won't be alone in the oven. A strengthening ridge of high pressure lifting out of Mexico is on course to also scorch other parts of Arizona and Southern California, bringing potentially record-shattering temperatures.
Though accustomed to triple digits, the upcoming heat spell is a rarity in Phoenix, a desert metropolis of 1.5 million people, raising concerns of heat stroke.
February 04, 2016 | Health News
New York Times: Higher Temperatures Make Zika Mosquito Spread Disease More
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — In its brief lifespan, the mosquito that carries the Zika virus is caught in a race: Will it pass the disease to humans before it dies?
Weather might make the difference. Scientists say the hotter it gets, the more likely the insect can spread disease.
February 02, 2016 | Health News
Huffington Post: We Can Expect More Outbreaks Like Zika As The Climate Changes
By Lydia O'Connor
The factors leading to the current Zika outbreak won't be clear for some time, but environmental health experts say there's a good chance such infectious diseases will become more common as the global climate warms.
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February 01, 2016 | Health News
National Geographic: Can We Stop Mosquitoes From Infecting the World?
By Cheryl Katz
PUBLISHED Mon Feb 01 05:30:13 EST 2016
Update: The World Health Organization declared Zika a global emergency on Monday. The declaration by the UN agency likely will increase funding and research efforts to control the outbreak.
January 06, 2016 | Health News
NewsBeat: Paris Climate Talks a Big Deal for Health, Says UW Professor
By Bobbi Nodell, Health Sciences NewsBeat
UW professor of global health Kristie Ebi has attended United Nations climate-change conferences since 2000. The agreement reached at the Paris conference in December, she said, was nothing short of monumental.
“It showed that world governments agree climate change is a serious problem and they are committed to addressing it,” Ebi said. She’s an expert on the health risks of climate change and how humans adapt to it. She addressed conference attendees on Dec. 5 and 11.
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