The Growing Link Between Climate Change and Health

Estimating the Growing Degree Days in the Northwest of Iran based on Climate Change Models

The purpose of this study is predicting climate changes and investigating the effect of probable climate change on the growing degree-days in the northwest of Iran. For this purpose the climatic data of seven synoptic stations during a 25 years period (1985-2009) was collected including Oroomieh, Tabriz, Zanjan, Sanandaj, Ghazvin, Kermanshah, and Hamedan were used as the base period and thus te...

Climate Change and Human Health

Climate change impacts on human health span the trajectory of time—past, present, and future. The key finding from the Working Group II, Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that health impacts due to climate change have already occurred in the past, are currently occurring and will continue to occur, at least for the foreseeable future, e...

Climate Change and Health Effects

Climate change and animal health

Climate change and children's health.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To present the latest data that demonstrate how climate change affects children's health and to identify the principal ways in which climate change puts children's health at risk. RECENT FINDINGS Data continue to emerge that further implicate climate change as contributing to health burdens in children. Climate models have become even more sophisticated and consistently fore...