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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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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.

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Solar Panel Landfill Deemed Safe as Recycling Options Grow

GreenTechMedia

The IEA study will show that disposing of solar panels in landfill is unlikely to have an adverse impact on human health, according to co-author Dr. Garvin Heath, a senior scientist in the U.S. And although the blades, like solar panels, are not expected to pose a health hazard, their size is seen as challenge when it comes to disposal.

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Summer blackouts are increasing in the US

The Verge: Energy

. | Raquel Natalicchio / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images The US has dealt with 60 percent more weather-related outages during warmer months over the past decade than it did during the 2000s, according to data crunched by the nonprofit research organization Climate Central.

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How a Climate Corps Fellow is Strengthening Environmental Resilience with Chubb

EDF + Business

Climate Corps does this by plac ing talented fellows at leading organizations to advance sustainability goals and deliver tangible results , such as recent fellow Carter Purcell , who worked with Chubb on a groundbreaking new project. Our mission is simple but powerful: to train and mobilize the future of the green workforce.

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Counting the microns

Envirotec Magazine

1 Only seven countries and three territories last year met World Health Organization pollution guidelines for fine particulate matter, according to the latest report by Swiss company IQ Air, published in March. From Monash University, in Melbourne, and published in March in The Lancet Planetary Health, this study looks at PM2.5

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