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Video: Climate Change Fuels Lightning Strikes in Kashmir

Video: Climate Change Fuels Lightning Strikes in Kashmir

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Lightning strikes were responsible for approximately 7% of fatalities in Jammu and Kashmir from 2020 to 2022

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

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

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

U.S. Voters Disenfranchised by Climate Change

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Electoral planning needs to envision increasingly severe extremes that disrupt the casting and counting of ballots

U.S. Voters Disenfranchised by Climate Change

Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Cardiovascular Disease

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

Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Cardiovascular Disease

Extreme Heat Taxes Africa's Women and Reproduction

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

Extreme Heat Taxes Africa's Women and Reproduction

Hurricanes, Pandemics, Floods, Frail Systems, and Failed Responses

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

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

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

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

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