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Africa:
Did You Know That Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health?
AlertNet, 5 April 2012
What do you associate with climate change? Is it greenhouse gases, rising temperatures, more extreme weather or cutting the use of fossil fuels? Perhaps it's some, or even all, of… Read more »
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Africa:
Emissions Cuts Also Offer Quick Health, Crop Benefits
SciDev.Net, 13 January 2012
Reducing methane and black carbon emissions could quickly tackle climate change while improving food security and people's health, especially in developing countries, a study… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Dangers of Pollution to Health, Ecosystems
The Herald, 19 September 2011
Pollution in all its formats whether its air, water, pesticide, etc, is now a worldwide problem. Those policymakers who refuse to recognise the reality of pollution and take action… Read more »
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Africa:
Climate Crisis Threatens Health of Young Africans
allAfrica, 6 December 2011
What's bad for the climate is bad for health. Read more »
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Uganda:
Slow Action On Climate Change Threatens Health
Monitor, 6 December 2011
Any delays to mitigate climate change will have adverse effects on human health, reversing global and national gains made in health, experts have warned. Read more »
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Africa:
Climate Change Exacerbates Malaria Menace
rDNA, 2 December 2011
The scourge of malaria in Africa is barely abating despite the millions of dollars sunk annually into combating the sickness, and now malaria appears to have found a new accomplice… Read more »
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Africa:
Climate Change, Low Resources, Hunger Threathen Global Health - ActionAid
Vanguard, 25 October 2011
AS the world comes to the end of the era of cheap food, a call for urgent action for large scale agriculture to counter depleted natural resources of the world and and rising food… Read more »
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South Africa:
Link Between Climate Change and Hayfever
Biz-Community, 11 October 2011
Hayfever may become a problem for nearly half of all South Africans by 2050 as a result of climate change says Dr Michael Levin, an allergy consultant to pharmaceutical company,… Read more »
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South Africa:
Climate Change Predicted to Spread Malaria
BuaNews, 27 September 2011
The geographic range of malaria could more than double in the next 50 years, putting almost eight million people at risk - five million of whom did not previously live in areas at… Read more »