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West Kootenay doctors, nurses declare Code Red on climate change

Code Red urges the provincial and federal governments to act now and declare a climate emergency, take action on climate change, protect and restore nature, create broad transformative change focussed on human wellbeing in balance with nature, and ensure a just transition.

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More than 200 medical journals call for emergency action on 'catastrophic' climate change

A global temperature rise of more than 1.5C risks "catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse," according to a shared statement published in over 230 of the world's leading medical journals.

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UK medical schools must teach about climate crisis, say students

Medical students are demanding their schools include the climate crisis as a core component of the curriculum, as the intensifying climate emergency highlights the corresponding health crisis.

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Doctors call for tougher health and climate commitment

A group of physicians and concerned citizens is calling on Canada to “make life-saving commitments" at the Leaders' Summit on Climate to be hosted by the U.S. on Earth Day 2021, April 22, 2021.

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Climate change, structural racism pose double threat to Black parents. Birth workers can help

Climate change, structural racism pose double threat to Black parents. Birth workers can help

A broad body of research shows that systemic racism makes Black parents and their babies more likely to experience adverse birth outcomes than white parents and babies.

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‘As scientists, we have yet to close the racial disparities’

The voices rising up in protest across America against police brutality and systemic racism have been clear: Black lives matter. Now scientists are bringing that cry to their labs and research centers.

Children's health vulnerable to climate change, Canadian Paediatric Society says
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Children's health vulnerable to climate change, Canadian Paediatric Society says

The Canadian Paediatric Society says it expects climate change to increasingly affect children's health and is encouraging health-care providers to press all levels of government for measures that curb it.

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