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Are we ready for more heat waves and their impact on our health?

August 26, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, environmentalhealth, globalwarming, health, heatwaves, publichealth

Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master’s degree at Columbia University (yeah, some "year off"), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that’s just...

What do jellyfish, drilling and whale blubber have in common?

August 4, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
cleanenergy, drilling, globalwarming, jellyfish, newyorktimes, oceans, whaling

Answer: They’re black and white and read all over. Sunday’s New York Times was something of a bonanza (albeit a sobering one) for anyone interested in environmental news. In a front-page story, Elisabeth Rosenthal reports from Barcelona on the...

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