The Southwest region encompasses diverse ecosystems, cultures, and economies, reflecting a broad range of climate conditions, including the hottest and driest climate in the United States. Water for people and nature in the Southwest region has declined during droughts, due in part to human-caused climate change. Higher temperatures intensified the recent severe drought in California […]
Canada’s health organizations demand action to prevent catastrophic climate change
By Kim Perrotta In an unprecedented move, five national health organizations representing doctors, nurses, medical officers, and public health professionals gathered in Ottawa to call for urgent action to prevent catastrophic climate change on Feb. 5. It is an election year and all of our organizations — the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), the Canadian Nurses […]
NCA 4: Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the USA, almost one-fifth the size of the combined lower 48 United States, and is rich in natural capital resources. Alaska is often identified as being on the front lines of climate change since it is warming faster than any other state and faces a myriad of issues associated […]
March CMOS Ottawa Lunch Meeting: Climate change and health: a complicated relationship?
SPEAKER: Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa TITLE: Climate change and health: a complicated relationship? ABSTRACT: It is widely understood that greenhouse gases associated with human activities are causing climate change, and that climate change poses significant risks to human health. However, these risks are not evenly distributed. Climate change is […]
Life After Warming: Why Al Gore Thinks There’s Still Hope for the Planet
By David Wallace-Wells It would probably have been tempting, talking to Al Gore at any point over the 18 years — after 9/11, in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, in the depths of the financial crisis, as Obama failed to pass climate legislation and pushed the Clean Power Plan instead — to wonder […]