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West Kootenay doctors, nurses declare Code Red on climate change
Code Red urges the provincial and federal governments to act now and declare a climate emergency, take action on climate change, protect and restore nature, create broad transformative change focussed on human wellbeing in balance with nature, and ensure a just transition.
More than 200 medical journals call for emergency action on 'catastrophic' climate change
A global temperature rise of more than 1.5C risks "catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse," according to a shared statement published in over 230 of the world's leading medical journals.
UK medical schools must teach about climate crisis, say students
Medical students are demanding their schools include the climate crisis as a core component of the curriculum, as the intensifying climate emergency highlights the corresponding health crisis.
Doctors call for tougher health and climate commitment
A group of physicians and concerned citizens is calling on Canada to “make life-saving commitments" at the Leaders' Summit on Climate to be hosted by the U.S. on Earth Day 2021, April 22, 2021.
Climate change, structural racism pose double threat to Black parents. Birth workers can help
A broad body of research shows that systemic racism makes Black parents and their babies more likely to experience adverse birth outcomes than white parents and babies.
‘As scientists, we have yet to close the racial disparities’
The voices rising up in protest across America against police brutality and systemic racism have been clear: Black lives matter. Now scientists are bringing that cry to their labs and research centers.
Children's health vulnerable to climate change, Canadian Paediatric Society says
The Canadian Paediatric Society says it expects climate change to increasingly affect children's health and is encouraging health-care providers to press all levels of government for measures that curb it.