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Health and climate

The climate crisis poses a fundamental threat to human health. This series reports on the ways weather extremes are increasing the risk of deaths and disease, and creating a global health emergency

11 December 2023

  • A close-up shot of an Asian tiger mosquito sucking human blood.

    Climate crisis could cause 10,000 extra UK deaths a year by 2050, says health body

    A report by the UK Health Security Agency warns that extreme heat could bring a host of tropical diseases transmitted by insects

8 December 2023

  • A woman holds a glass of water

    ‘You are sweating half a litre an hour’: what happens to your body when dehydrated – and how to avoid it

    As Australia stares down a predicted very hot summer, dehydration presents a serious – but preventable – health risk for many of us

17 November 2023

  • Micro-Grid Training for African Women

    Solar energy could power all health facilities in poorer countries and save lives, experts say

    Move would cost less than $5bn and cut toll of deaths from power outages and lack of supply, Cop28 delegates will hear

16 November 2023

  • Vanessa Kerry seated, elbows on table, hands clasped in front of chin, behind her sun sets behind a large tree, in Lusaka, Zambia.

    Like father, like daughter: why Vanessa Kerry is demanding action on climate and health

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

15 November 2023

  • Mosquitoes lay eggs inside factory in Medellin, Colombia, where scientists are breeding the mosquitoes to carry the a bacteria that interrupts the transmission of dengue.

    Jamaica’s dengue fever outbreak shows the deadly effects of record heat

    Georgiana Gordon-Strachan
    The global failure to reduce fossil fuels is leaving small island states trapped in a never-ending cycle of fightback against disease and extreme weather

14 November 2023

  • A girl collects water in a plastic bottle from a shallow river next to a donkey pulling a cart

    ‘Paying in lives’: health of billions at risk from global heating, warns report

    Inaction on the climate crisis is ‘costing lives and livelihoods’ due to extreme heat, food insecurity and infectious diseases, say scientists
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