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Climate change is putting global human health at risk and requires an “urgent response”, according to a new paper.
The health risks include those from heat waves, floods and wildfires, changes in infectious disease patterns, the effect of worsening food yields and loss of livelihoods, according to the paper published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
of fisheries.
Lead author Anthony McMichael said human actions are causing “unprecedented global environmental changes”, including climate change, loss of bio-diversity and the exhaustion
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