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Celebrate Spring’s Arrival with Flood Safety Preparedness Planning
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit...
Mar 17, 2016 | Mary Hodges
Climate Change’s Effect on Food Production Could Lead to Widespread Death Worldwide
Climate change could kill more than 500,000 adults worldwide in 2050 due to reduced crop productivity, according to a new study...
Mar 05, 2016 | Katie Regan
The Perfect Storm: Climate Change and Zika Virus Disease
This post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit...
Mar 04, 2016 | Mary Hodges
Supreme Court Places Stay on Clean Power Plan
On February 9, the United States Supreme Court granted a request filed by more than two dozen states to temporarily halt...
Feb 19, 2016 | Katie Regan
New Lyme Disease-Causing Bacteria Species Discovered
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic and health officials from Minnesota, Wisconsin,...
Feb 16, 2016 | Katie Regan
2015 Likely to be Named Warmest Year in History
Global temperatures ran hot lost year—even hotter than in 2014, which, when the calendar ran out at the end of December, cemented its...
Jan 04, 2016 | Chris Mills
195 Nations Reach Groundbreaking Climate Change Agreement
December 12 marked an historic day for global and environmental health: the 195 countries attending the 21st Conference of Parties...
Dec 18, 2015 | Katie Regan
NACCHO Resources to Address the Recommendations in the “Outbreaks: Protecting...
On December 17, the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their annual report on the state of...
Dec 17, 2015 | Sara Chang
USDA Report: Climate Change Likely to Impede Progress on Global Food Security
A new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that examines global food security and its implications for the...
Dec 02, 2015 | Katie Regan
Celebrate Spring’s Arrival with Flood Safety Preparedness PlanningThis post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. Though the official start of spring is still a week away, the season’s hallmark rainstorms have already begun to fall and raise the threat of severe flooding across the country. Flooding is a risk any time […] Mar 17, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
Climate Change’s Effect on Food Production Could Lead to Widespread Death WorldwideClimate change could kill more than 500,000 adults worldwide in 2050 due to reduced crop productivity, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The study is the first of its kind to assess the impact of climate change on diet composition and bodyweight, and to estimate the number of deaths each will cause. […] Mar 05, 2016 | Katie Regan |
The Perfect Storm: Climate Change and Zika Virus DiseaseThis post originally ran on NACCHO’s Healthy People, Healthy Places blog. For more environmental health news and information, visit http://essentialelements.naccho.org/. By Andrea Grenadier, Communications Specialist, NACCHO If you were writing a popular novel designed to terrify, you could hardly come up with a better plot device than introducing Zika virus disease. A perfect storm of a... Mar 04, 2016 | Mary Hodges |
Supreme Court Places Stay on Clean Power PlanOn February 9, the United States Supreme Court granted a request filed by more than two dozen states to temporarily halt implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Clean Power Plan. The court voted 5-4 to grant the request, thereby allowing states to stop their efforts toward meeting the new carbon emission regulations placed on […] Feb 19, 2016 | Katie Regan |
New Lyme Disease-Causing Bacteria Species DiscoveredThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic and health officials from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, have reported a new species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease in humans. The new species, Borrelia mayonii, has been identified in blacklegged ticks in at least two counties in northwestern Wisconsin, though […] Feb 16, 2016 | Katie Regan |
2015 Likely to be Named Warmest Year in HistoryGlobal temperatures ran hot lost year—even hotter than in 2014, which, when the calendar ran out at the end of December, cemented its status as the warmest year on record. But then came 2015, which shattered previous records by an enormous margin and may soon take up the mantle of hottest year in recorded history (Jan. 11 update: […] Jan 04, 2016 | Chris Mills |
195 Nations Reach Groundbreaking Climate Change AgreementDecember 12 marked an historic day for global and environmental health: the 195 countries attending the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) climate change summit in Paris reached a landmark agreement that commits them to lowering greenhouse gas emissions in an attempt to halt the most extreme effects of climate change. The deal, which is legally binding and was agreed upon […] Dec 18, 2015 | Katie Regan |
NACCHO Resources to Address the Recommendations in the “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases” ReportOn December 17, the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their annual report on the state of prevention and control of infectious disease outbreaks in the United States. Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases analyzes the country’s policies related to ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats and provides recommendations to […] Dec 17, 2015 | Sara Chang |
USDA Report: Climate Change Likely to Impede Progress on Global Food SecurityA new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that examines global food security and its implications for the United States says climate change is likely to impede progress on reducing undernourishment around the world in the decades to come. Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System, released today during the 2015 United […] Dec 02, 2015 | Katie Regan |
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