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UN links climate change to Zika, Ebola
2016-02-19 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The United Nations is urging action on climate change as a way to prevent the spread of diseases like Ebola and the Zika virus. In a speech this week, the executive director of the UNs Environment Programme (UNEP) said officials should take a more aggressive stance toward climate change, highlighting studies that show nearly a quarter of premature deaths around the world can be attributed to environmental problems. The spread of Zika, just as with Ebola, has sent a strong signal to the international...
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