For the past five years, staff from the Minnesota Department of Health's Minnesota Climate and Health Program have been studying climate data and the potential health effects of climate change in the state. This year they released the "Minnesota Climate and Health Profile Report 2015," which presents a synthesis of their research. This article summarizes key points from that report.

Regional climate models are useful tools for regional climate research. They are especially helpful for studying the effects of topography, coastlines, and other complex landsurface properties on regional climate and for simulating these effects realistically. Although regional climate modeling started more than ten years ago, improvements in model physics and performance have been slow. There ...

objective: understanding climate effects on crop yield has been a continuous endeavor aiming at improving farming technology and management strategy, minimizing negative climate effects, and maximizing positive climate effects on yield. methods: in order to evaluate agroclimate of corn cultivation throughout the selected substations at kermanshah province in this current investigation, the stat...

With the recent Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Nairobi (November 2006), significant international attention has been drawn to the issue of climate change. It is widely recognised that developing countries stand to suffer disproportionately from the effects of climate change, they are in the weakest position to mitigate the adverse...

long recognized.3-5 Consequently, there has been a growing interest in investigating what changes in air quality may be brought about by the possible future changes in climate. The common assumption has been that warmer temperatures accompanying climate change will enhance pollution. However, due to the complex interplay of meteorology and chemistry in the formation of pollutants such as PM2.5 ...

Global climate change has been described as the defining issue for health in the 21st century.1 The current and potential adverse health effects of climate change have been well described and range from changes in food and water security to the direct and indirect adverse health effects of worsening air quality from greenhouse gases.2 Family physicians are ideally poised to lead a response to g...

The global atmospheric temperature anomalies of Earth reached a maximum in 1998 which has not been exceeded during the subsequent 10 years. The global anomalies are calculated from the average of climate effects occurring in the tropical and the extratropical latitude bands. El Niño/La Niña effects in the tropical band are shown to explain the 1998 maximum while variations in the background of ...

Demands are increasing on businesses to do their part to respond to the threat of climate change based on their influential position within the global community. If companies can effectively integrate strategy, people, processes and technology in the pursuit of initiatives that respond to climate change, the result can be a powerful tool of long-term value creation. But what exactly are the imp...

Although tree nutrition has not been the primary focus of large climate change experiments on trees, we are beginning to understand its links to elevated atmospheric CO₂ and temperature changes. This review focuses on the major nutrients, namely N and P, and deals with the effects of climate change on the processes that alter their cycling and availability. Current knowledge regarding biotic an...

In this article, the authors examine antecedents and consequences of the service climate in boundary-spanning self-managing teams (SMTs) that deliver financial services. Using data from members of 61 SMTs and their customers, the authors show a differential impact of the SMT service climate on various marketing performance measures. Furthermore, they obtain support for independent group-level e...