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- 1From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 92, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAs discussed elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, human health and climate change are inextricably linked. (1-3) This month, the World Health Organization (WHO) will, for the first...
- 2From:Plant Ecology (Vol. 215, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWe are pleased to announce a new special issue of Plant Ecology on extreme weather events. The new report of IPCC (2013) predicts remarkable increase in global mean air temperatures. Depending on the scenarios, the...
- 3From:The Ecumenical Review (Vol. 66, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe diaconal work of the churches, a core component of their identity and mission, has aimed at enhancing the living conditions of the people, especially the poor and more vulnerable. In this perspective, the pursuit of...
- 4From:The Nation's Health (Vol. 44, Issue 9)APHA is supporting new legislation that is designed to improve public health through climate change legislation. On Sept. 18, APHA applauded Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., for his introduction of the Climate Change...
- 5From:The Nation's Health (Vol. 45, Issue 6)Climate change threatens to roll back the past 50 years of health gains, according to a report published in The Lancet in June. The report found that the climate change-related threats to human health have been...
- 6From:CME: Your SA Journal of CPD (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAdvocacy is defined as support or argument for a cause or a policy. The lead article in this journal certainly suggests major changes in lifestyle, which will not be palatable to all in the health profession. Do we need...
- 7From:Economic Theory (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe literature on global climate change has largely ignored the small but positive steps that many public and private actors are taking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A global policy is frequently posited as the...
- 8From:The Review of Policy Research (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhy does the United States sign environmental treaties but not ratify them? U.S. presidents have negotiated and signed several environmental treaties that ultimately could not obtain Senate ratification. This article...
- 9From:Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (Issue 37) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Road transport has been a major contributor to New Zealand's increasing rate of C[O.sub.2] emissions over the past 15 years. New Zealand Travel Survey (NZTS) data show that 29% of the kilometres travelled by...
- 10From:Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Vol. 105, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA recently built experimental setup was employed for the estimation of the solid-liquid equilibria of alternative refrigerants systems. The behavior of dimethyl ether (DME) + carbon dioxide was measured down to...
- 11From:Plant Ecology (Vol. 212, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedEnvironmental filters act to limit the local community assemblage from the regional species pool by restricting the viable trait states that can occur there. In alpine snowpatches, the timing of snowmelt is a strong...
- 12From:Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (Vol. 219, Issue 1-4) Peer-ReviewedThe recovery potential of stream acidification from years of acidic deposition is dependent on biogeochemical processes and varies among different acid-sensitive regions. Studies that investigate long-term trends and...
- 13From:Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (Vol. 205, Issue 1-4) Peer-ReviewedAbuse comes in many forms to humans--verbal, physical, emotional, economic/poverty, hunger, greed, and religious discrimination--sometimes subtle and sometimes with violence. These are only a few examples. What about...
- 14From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 200)Speaking of religion and climate, we also note this entry: "The pope denounces the ecological crisis but does not belong to the church of Al Gore." So wrote Giuliano Ferrara, director of the Italian daily II Foglio, in...
- 15From:Nature (Vol. 468, Issue 7324) Peer-ReviewedThe figure of 0.05-0.13 [degrees]C for the world's warming during the past decade has been underestimated by around 0.03 [degrees]C, the UK Met Office said on 26 November. Drifting buoys--increasingly used since...
- 16From:International Journal (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedClimate change arose on the international agenda in the late 1980s. It was a period of international "greening" and Canada joined the climate change bandwagon. Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was even lauded...
- 17From:The Ecologist (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedScientists agree that climate change will have far-reaching and unpredictable consequences for human health. An unstable climate will give rise to various health problems ranging from heat stroke and hypothermia to...
- 18From:Science (Vol. 241, Issue 4865) Peer-ReviewedNew Ways to Chill Earth The mystery of the ice ages was a deep one indeed. Why should Earth oscillate between 100,000 years of deep freeze and a few thousand years of balmy relief? The mystery has not been solved...
- 19From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Bayden D. Russell 1 , * , Sean D. Connell 1 , Camille Mellin 2 , 3 , Barry W. Brook 3 , Owen W. Burnell 1 , Damien A. Fordham 3 Introduction The distributions of many marine species are strongly related...
- 20From:Nature (Vol. 541, Issue 7637) Peer-ReviewedAtmospheric methane and other short-lived greenhouse gases are set to keep the global sea level rising for several centuries -- even after any potential decline or halt in emissions. Greenhouse gases in the...