by Sanjay Sisodiya and Mark Maslin, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainClimate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review published in The Lancet Neurology has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise include stroke, migraines, meningitis, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s. Our brains...
By Zoya Teirstein Naegleria fowleri, a rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A 16-month-old boy was playing in a splash pad at a country club in Little Rock, Arkansas, this summer when water...
News brief October 24, 2023Lisa Schnirring for University of MinnesotaAn analysis published by the Washington Post yesterday, based on modeling projections and the situation unfolding in Mozambique, suggests that climate change and demographic growth could put 5 billion more people at risk for malaria by 2040. malaria bednetDFID /Flickr ccThe analysis said longer transmission seasons...
by Blake Dillon, McMaster University Jianping Xu is a professor of biology at McMaster University and a member of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research. Credit: McMaster University Climate change is driving many fungi to adapt to the Earth’s warmer temperatures, which could mean more disease-causing fungi will learn to live in and...
McKenzie Prillaman Floods, such as this one in Bangladesh, can increase the risk and severity of infectious diseases.Credit: Mamun Hossain/AFP/Getty Climate change has exacerbated more than 200 infectious diseases and dozens of non-transmissible conditions, such as poisonous-snake bites, according to an analysis1. Climate hazards bring people and disease-causing organisms closer together, leading to a rise...
Climate Change and Human Behavior (Cambridge University Press, 2022) maps out how hotter temperatures and more frequent and severe weather events can directly and indirectly alter the way people think and interact with others. Leaning on decades of previous research, the authors demonstrate how these impacts at the individual and group levels can escalate to political...
by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Rising temperatures due to climate change will lead to an increase in cases of kidney stones over the next seven decades, even if measures are put in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)....
by Erin Digitale, Stanford University Stanford researchers have found that changes in temperature and rainfall have lengthened allergy season in the Bay Area. Credit: Elizaveta Galitckaia/Shutterstock Air levels of pollen and mold spores in the San Francisco Bay Area are elevated for about two more months per year than in past decades, and higher temperatures are...
Climate change will bring an acute toll worldwide, with rising temperatures, wildfires and poor air quality, accompanied by higher rates of cancer, especially lung, skin and gastrointestinal cancers, according to a new report from UC San Francisco. In an analysis of nearly five dozen published scientific papers, the researchers provided a synopsis of future effects from global...
