Climate Change Biggest Threat To Health, Major Study

Climate change is this century’s biggest threat to human health according to a major report by an interdisciplinary team of academics that highlights changing patterns of disease, population migration, extreme climatic events, water and food insecurity, vulnerable shelter and human settlements, as key issues. The 94-page report is published in the 16 May issue of The Lancet and is a collaboration between the journal and the University College London.

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on May 15th, 2009