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Causes
air pollution human health threats
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Can we end deaths from air pollution?

Don’t hold your breath.
Impacts
global pollinator losses & early deaths
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Global pollinator losses causing 500,000 early deaths a year – study

Insect declines mean reduced yields of healthy foods like fruit and vegetables and increased disease in people.

Newsletter
heat stroke climate impacts health
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Body shock: Six ways the heat affects the human body

How excessive temperatures can harm every part of our bodies causing, in extreme cases, cancer, strokes and heart attacks.

Causes
Air pollutants cost Canada
www.nationalobserver.com

Air pollutants cost Canada $120B a year: Health Canada

The health burden from pollutants in the air that come from industrial activities like oil and gas extraction, mining, manufacturing, construction, and transportation — as well as natural events like forest fires — contributed to 15,300 premature Canadian deaths in 2016.
Causes
Baltimore's pollution-spewing trash incinerator

Inside the fight to shut down Baltimore's pollution-spewing trash incinerator

"If you drive here at certain times of night, it smells like death."
Impacts
As wildfire smoke becomes a part of life on the West Coast, so do its health risks

As wildfire smoke becomes a part of life on the West Coast, so do its health risks

Wildfires are causing record amounts of smoke to settle over West Coast states, leading to new habits and health problems.
Impacts
Connecting the dots between environmental injustice and coronavirus
e360.yale.edu

Connecting the dots between environmental injustice and coronavirus

Scientist Sacoby Wilson has long focused on health issues related to environmental injustice. In an e360 interview, he discusses how social and environmental inequality have contributed to the outsized impact of COVID-19.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
Saudi Aramco flag with a skyscraper in background.

Saudi oil official’s role in climate science report raises conflict of interest concerns

four people on ice near icebergs during daytime.

Ocean salinity shifts are melting Antarctic sea ice faster, scientists find

Two soccer players collide mid-air as the ball bounces off one of their heads.

Vermont soccer club kicks toward a cleaner future

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Jellyfish floating in the ocean

Scientists call on UN to adopt bold ocean policies to combat climate and biodiversity threats

Green coral on a reef.

EU ocean protection plan draws fire for weak enforcement and lack of binding goals

Wildfire smoke in the distance with a forested hill in the foreground.

Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to choke U.S. cities as climate patterns worsen

CLIMATE
Image of Wind turbines, solar panels, and fossil fuel power plants.

How China raced ahead on clean energy while America clung to oil

Dakota Access Pipeline protesters hold signs and raise fists.

Greenpeace faces ruin after oil giant wins lawsuit rewriting Standing Rock history