The Daily Climate

Causes

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Can we end deaths from air pollution?

Don’t hold your breath.

Impacts

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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

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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

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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

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

Wildfires are causing record amounts of smoke to settle over West Coast states, leading to new habits and health problems.

Impacts

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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

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Can we end deaths from air pollution?

Global pollinator losses causing 500,000 early deaths a year – study

Body shock: Six ways the heat affects the human body

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

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

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

Connecting the dots between environmental injustice and coronavirus

California struggles to electrify trucks as Trump administration blocks state rules

The hidden cost of powering your phone might be someone else’s cancer

Toxic mine runoff cleanup revives West Virginia waterways and extracts rare earth elements

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

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

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

China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records

Melting ice and microplastics signal deepening disruption in Antarctica’s climate system