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Evidence: Will climate change affect spread tropical diseases?

2015-02-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Conversation: Many tropical diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease and dengue are transmitted to humans via mosquitoes and other carriers known as vectors. These vector-borne diseases continue to have a major impact on human health in the developing world: each year, more than a billion people become infected and around a million people die. In addition, around one in six cases of illness and disability worldwide arise from these diseases. Malaria arguably continues to attract the most attention of all the...

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No consistent evidence links wind farms and adverse health, says study

2015-02-12 13:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A review of thousands of papers looking at the possible relationship between wind farms and human health has concluded there is currently no consistent evidence that wind farms cause adverse health effects in humans. Australias National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) identified over 4,000 papers that looked at the issue. However, just 13 studies were found to be of sufficient scientific quality to consider possible relationships between wind farms and human health. The review...

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Researchers find new evidence of warming

2015-02-09 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] A study of three remote lakes in Ecuador led by Queen's University researchers has revealed the vulnerability of tropical high mountain lakes to global climate change - the first study of its kind to show this. The data explains how the lakes are changing due to the water warming as the result of climate change. The results could have far-reaching consequences for Andean water resources as the lakes provide 60 per cent of the drinking water for Cuenca, the third largest ci…

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