"Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar"
"Scores of California farmworkers are dying in the heat in regions with chronically bad air, even in a state with one of the toughest heat standards in the nation."
Source: Inside Climate News, 01/02/2024
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Meet Three Therapists Who Are Helping People Cope With Climate Anxiety
"Increasingly, Americans of all generations are suffering from climate anxiety."
Source: Rhode Island Current, 11/30/2023
Researchers, Farmers, Brewers Want To Safeguard Beer Against Climate Change
"On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie’s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation, preparing barley seeds by the bucketful."
Source: AP, 11/14/2023
‘The Science Is Irrefutable’: US Warming Faster Than Global Average: Report
"The US is warming faster than the global average and its people are suffering “far-reaching and worsening” consequences from the climate crisis, with worse to come, according to an authoritative report issued by the US government."
Source: Guardian, 11/14/2023
US Chemical Industry Likely Spent $110M To Thwart PFAS Legislation: Study
"The US chemical industry likely spent over $110m during the last two election cycles deploying lobbyists to kill dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation and slow administrative regulation around “forever chemicals”, a new analysis of federal lobbying documents has found."
Source: Guardian, 11/08/2023
"UN Sounds Warning On Climate Change Health Threat"
"Climate change poses a health threat through increasing weather disasters and extreme heat, the UN said Thursday, calling for better warning systems that could be weaved into public health policy."
Source: AFP, 11/03/2023
"Assisted Migration Helps Animals Adapt to Climate Change"
"Extreme heat and weather are shifting the areas fit for habitation—and not just for humans. Climate change is turning other vulnerable species into refugees as well."
Source: Sierra, 10/19/2023
"Extreme Heat Risks Rise For Pregnant Women And Babies"
"As a health worker in South Sudan, Night Stella Elias sees from year to year how rising temperatures are adding to the dangers faced by pregnant women and their babies."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 10/13/2023
As Heat Deaths Rise, New Program Puts Community Clinics On The Front Lines
"An initiative in Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona enlists clinicians to ensure resources go to the right places during heat waves."
Source: Grist, 10/12/2023
"Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have Few Protections"
"Tens of millions of Americans are struggling to cope with soaring temperatures. OSHA is developing new workplace safety standards, but they are not yet complete."
Source: NYTimes, 10/06/2023
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