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Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate

Grist

McMichael’s research team tallied up how many lives had been lost to diarrheal disease, malnutrition, malaria, cardiovascular disease (a proxy for heat-related illness), and flooding, worldwide, in the year 2000. The researchers then used computer modeling to parse out the percentage of those deaths that were attributable to climate change.

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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

A seemingly world-first study of daily ambient fine particulate matter ( PM 2.5 ) across the globe reports that only 0.18% of the global land area and 0.001% of the global population are exposed to levels of PM 2.5 – the world’s leading environmental health risk factor – below levels of safety recommended by Word Health Organization (WHO).

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Automation for the people: reducing injury in quarrying

Envirotec Magazine

Harrowing statistics from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work state that quarry workers are twice as likely to be killed in an accident than construction workers, and thirteen times more likely than those working in manufacturing.

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Keep a close eye on mercury

Envirotec Magazine

Exposure to excessive levels of mercury carries with it a number of serious health risks. Ensuring that facilities are safe during construction and that there is no health risk associated with any repurposed land and new or refurbished buildings when they are occupied places an emphasis on effective contamination monitoring.

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Urban wood burning is soaring, with 18,000 complaints but only 3 fines

Envirotec Magazine

Campaigners have written to the Health Secretary to call for wood stoves to be phased out by 2027. Graham Turnbull, who lives in Sheffield, said: “I live in Sheffield where the air pollution level is around the World Health Organisation limit. Every day I read about a new area of human health impacted by ultra fine dust (PM2.5)

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Call to ramp up joint action to get London’s rivers ‘climate-ready’

Envirotec Magazine

The public can get involved in citizen science projects to monitor the health of their rivers in order to gather evidence on the issues and opportunities for water quality improvements. Flood plains in London are currently home to 1.42 million people, as well as £321bn-worth of homes.

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20 must-read books about food systems

GreenBiz

But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system. Plucked" makes it clear that food choices matter and show how consumers’ desire for meat, especially chicken, has affected human health.