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Out Cold: The Most Common Wintertime Injuries in a Warming World

by Caroline Wilkerson, Andrew Nakamura, Madeline Moberg, Hailey Lenox, Liane Ong

Shifting weather and rising heating costs create wintertime threats, namely among the elderly and other at-risk groups

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COP29: The Health Expenses of Climate Change

by Anita Makri

Does a failure to focus on health economic losses stand opposed to stronger action at the UN summit and beyond?

Residents walk along a house on a flooded street heading to a shelter ahead of the expected landfall of the "super cyclone" Amphan, in the Dacope of Khulna district, Bangladesh, on May 20, 2020. Photo shows two people walking and hanging on to a building as they navigate the flooded streets. AFP/Munir uz Zaman via Getty Images
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Family Affair: Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis

by Gaurab Basu, Samir Chaudhuri

In the Bay of Bengal, where Cyclone Amphan collided with COVID-19, a glimpse of why we need environmental sustainability

Parched land is pictured around the Lake Wegnia, in Sahel region of Koulikoro, Mali on November 22, 2019. Picture Shows a lonely tree, small and scrubby with many of its branches dead. It’s in a dry gully with a few other green scrubby bushes scattered in the frame—but mostly nothing but dry yellow dirt and sand everywhere the eye can see off into the distance. REUTERS/Arouna Sissoko
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Weathering the Sahel

by Natalie M. Cormier

The overuse of land packs a punch that promises to get worse over time