"Charting a Planet's Changing Rhythms, Through a Physician's Eyes"

Paul Epstein started his career as a physician caring for the poor in Mozambique and Boston. In a new book, the Associate director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and Global Environment connects the dots between climate change and its global impacts. They range from cholera outbreaks in Africa and plankton blooms in the Caribbean ... to parasites devastating East Coast oysters.

Douglas Fischer reports for The Daily Climate June 6, 2011.