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Neuroscientist turned environmental journalist Clayton Aldern reports an unreported crisis in neurological health linked to climate chang

Climate change is spurring an unreported crisis in neurological health

“Climate change is killing a lot of people, nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it.”

In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? McMichael’s research team tallied up how many lives had been lost to diarrheal disease, malnutrition, malaria, cardiovascular disease (a proxy for heat-related illness), and flooding, worldwide, in the year 2000. The

When you picture a house, you often think about wooden walls, concrete, and bricks. But this home is a little different from your typical home sweet home. Instead of workers

In tackling planetary health challenges, one must not be afraid - be courageous, because in this kind of work, you will be wrestling with a lot of tensions and countervailing forces. The only thing that can build courage is to work together across disciplines, across sectors, and most importantly, across generations.