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The other crisis facing our health care system: Climate change

Even before Covid-19 put the American health care system to the test, that system was under strain from another invisible enemy: climate change.

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Climate change anxiety is affecting Americans' mental health
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Climate change anxiety is affecting Americans' mental health

There's no official clinical diagnosis, but the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon of worrying about the Earth's fate: “climate distress," “climate grief," “climate anxiety" or “eco-anxiety".

100,000 Americans die from air pollution, study finds
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100,000 Americans die from air pollution, study finds

A report puts a human and financial price on air pollution as a government panel looks to dismiss its costs.

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