It's time to scale planetary health education in residency training ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new European commission aimed at providing health sector solutions to what it called one of the defining health challenges of our time: climate ...

Bill Frist, a surgeon who also served as Senate majority leader, has emerged as an outspoken advocate for environmental ...

On Sept. 9, 2020, 7.7 million San Francisco Bay Area residents had the collective breath knocked out of them. That morning, they looked out their windows in horror as the sun disappeared behind an ...

The word solastalgia is a fusion of solace and the Greek suffix for pain, algia. According to some experts, it may also help explain the harmful effects of climate change on mental health. Coined in ...

With the intensification of climate change, the effects on human health, community health, and ecological health are increasingly difficult to ignore. Likewise, these effects put added strain on ...

In the past decade, Americans have become increasingly aware that climate change is harming the health of people in the U.S., according to a new survey. The survey, which was conducted in December and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. The changing climate is no longer a distant threat—it is here, now, ...

Beth People who live in areas affected by natural disasters can often experience climate trauma. Trauma is what we call the ...

A Kenyan journalist has won the top prize in a new regionaljournalism competition recognising outstanding reporting on how climate changeis affecting public health across East and Southern ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront series titled “New Challenges for Health Care.” The series of articles focuses on emerging issues that are facing decision makers at provider ...