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A nurse checks the blood pressure of a patient at the San Rafael nursing home.

Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Cardiovascular Disease

by Ethan Katznelson, Dhruv Kazi

As climate change advances, intense hurricanes disrupt critical services and increase risk of cardiovascular disease

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Women and babies are seen at the Zamzam displacement camp.

Extreme Heat Taxes Africa's Women and Reproduction

by Mariel Ferragamo

Many women in Africa have little or no protection against extreme heat events in their day-to-day lives

A tattered U.S. flag damaged in Hurricane Harvey, flies in Conroe, Texas, on August 29, 2017. The photo shows a torn U.S. flag blowing against a dark grey sky. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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Hurricanes, Pandemics, Floods, Frail Systems, and Failed Responses

by Hannah Todd, Justin Onwenu

Imagining a post-Harvey, post-Irma, post-Hanna, post-COVID-19 world of pandemics, natural disasters, and U.S. resiliency

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
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Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?