A new study out Monday is the latest to suggest that climate change is already making people’s lives worse, this time for those allergic to pollen. …
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How Climate Change Worsens Allergies, Plus More Ways It Affects Your Health
A series of recent studies indicate how the climate crisis is affecting human health, from worse seasonal allergies to earlier deaths.
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Across the United States and Canada, pollen season is starting 20 days earlier and pollen loads are 21 percent higher since 1990. When Dr. Stanley Fineman started as an allergist in Atlanta, he told patients they should start taking their medications and prepare for the drippy, sneezy onslaught of …
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The American Academy of Pediatrics calls climate change one of the top health threats to children around the world. Now, doctors …
Forcing animals into new habitats means the viruses they carry move with them. It could mean more pandemics in the future. Climate change isn’t just making sea levels rise and leading to epic droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and heat waves. It’s also making diseases such as Zika and yellow …
No matter where you live or how high your socioeconomic status, climate change can endanger your health, both physical and mental, now and in the future. Melting ice caps, warmer oceans, intense storms, heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires — all these well-documented effects of climate change …
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