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AAP News & Journals: Action Needed on ‘Climate Crisis’ to Protect Children’s Health

GHI Director Jonathan Patz tells pediatricians that action is needed on climate crisis to protect children's health.

Navigating Aging, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS

Sanyu Mojola, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, discusses the intersection of aging, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. She studies how societies produce health and illness and is especially interested in understanding social processes, mechanisms and patterns of social organization that lead to health inequities on many fronts. Much of Mojola’s work is focused …

UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control

UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control

Global Hot Spots: How Might Solving the Global Climate Crisis be the Health Cure of the Century?

              The global climate crisis poses large risks to public health through many exposure pathways — from heat waves and air pollution to malnutrition, infectious diseases, and social dislocation. At the same time, confronting the cause of climate change — reducing greenhouse gas emissions — offers large benefits to …

Searching for Answers on a Warming Planet: Why We May Need Climate Engineering

Simon Nicholson, Director of the Global Environmental Politics program in the School of International Service and co-founder of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, will discuss a range of other climate engineering or “geoengineering” schemes which are gaining increasing visibility and credibility as options for tackling climate change. What, though, is to be made of such …

WIZM: Study shows monkeys contracted CWD from infected deer meat, shows possibility to humans

CWD could affect humans; get your deer tested, says Keith Poulsen, a GHI Advisory Committee member with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

Importance of solar energy underestimated three-fold

Importance of solar energy underestimated three-fold, GHI Advisory Committee member finds

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Patz — Tax on hybrids and electric vehicles is poor economic policy

Tax on electric hybrids is poor economic policy, GHI Director Jonathan Patz says.

With deer season on horizon, lab ramps up for CWD testing

With deer season on horizon, lab ramps up for CWD testing

Zombies, Sports, and Cola: What Do They Mean For Communicating Weather and Climate?