Cheena Kapoor Official responses to high death rates during extreme heat in Uttar Pradesh has raised questions around how mortality from heat is recorded in India – and whether this is obscuring the true impact of climate change Between 15 and 22 June this year, more than 150 people died in two hospitals in Ballia… Continue reading Medical processes hide the true number of Indians dying from extreme heat
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Tobacco the twin killer of health and environment, says WHO
WHO has revealed new information on the extent to which tobacco damages both the environment and human health, calling for steps to make the industry more accountable for the destruction it is causing. The WHO report “Tobacco: Poisoning our planet” highlights that the industry’s carbon footprint from production, processing and transporting tobacco is equivalent to one-fifth… Continue reading Tobacco the twin killer of health and environment, says WHO
Two Years Into Pandemic, Human Rights Watch Warns of Lessons Not Learned
Jessica Corbett “As we enter the third year,” an expert at the group says, “the inequities that have characterized the past two years are only being further entrenched.” Experts at a leading U.S. human rights group marked the two-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic declaration on Friday by highlighting lessons that the global community should apply… Continue reading Two Years Into Pandemic, Human Rights Watch Warns of Lessons Not Learned
India in the grip of floods – yet again!
Kamaljit RayR.K. GiriS.S. RayA.P. Dimri dM. Rajeevan Floods are becoming the most frequently occurring extreme events leading to high deaths in India. The states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu are in the news since the last few days because of the heavy rains that have left the region battered by flooding and water-logging… Continue reading India in the grip of floods – yet again!
12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
Jane Spencer, The Guardian and Christina Jewett The yearlong series of investigative reports found that many of these deaths could have been prevented. Widespread shortages of masks and other personal protective gear, a lack of covid testing, weak contact tracing, inconsistent mask guidance by politicians, missteps by employers and lax enforcement of workplace safety rules by government… Continue reading 12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
3 Billion Animals Died or Displaced by Australia’s Bushfire Crisis
Nearly three billion animals – mammals, reptiles, birds, and frogs – were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating 2019-20 bushfires. It’s almost three times an earlier estimate released in January. The breakdown is 143 million mammals, 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds, and 51 million frogs. Those figures are revealed in an interim report entitled Australia’s… Continue reading 3 Billion Animals Died or Displaced by Australia’s Bushfire Crisis