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ClearPublic Perceptions of Climate Change and Health—A Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Researchers surveyed 697 German residents about their perceptions of climate change and its health impacts. While 85% agreed that human-induced climate change exists and 83% believed it affects health, most perceived the global population as more affected than themselves. The study suggests that cognitive dissonance may explain why people acknowledge climate health risks in general but underestimate their own personal vulnerability.
Health Literacy and Environmental Risks Focusing Air Pollution: Results from a Cross-Sectional Study in Germany
Researchers surveyed health literacy related to air pollution risks in a sample of the German general population. The study found that people's understanding of environmental health risks varied based on their information sources and prior knowledge, suggesting that more targeted communication strategies are needed to help the public better understand and respond to air quality threats.
Climate Change and Human Health
This paper reviews the relationship between climate change and human health, covering effects of global warming on infectious disease, heat stress, food security, and mental health, and situating these risks within the historical trajectory of anthropogenic climate forcing.
Climate Change and Adverse Public Health Impacts on Human Health and Water Resources
This review examines how climate change is creating interconnected threats to public health and freshwater resources worldwide. Researchers found that rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events are degrading water quality through increased contamination from pollutants including microplastics. The study highlights the urgent need for integrated strategies that address water management, pollution control, and public health simultaneously.
Increasing urban health awareness using an interactive approach: evidence from a school-based study
Researchers conducted a school-based study to evaluate an interactive approach for increasing urban health awareness among students, with a focus on the health consequences of climate change and urbanization. The study found evidence that participatory school interventions can improve health literacy and adaptive capacity among urban youth, supporting WHO recommendations for health-promoting schools.
Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity’s most existential crisis
This paper argues that health psychology must urgently address climate change as humanity's most existential health crisis, highlighting how greenhouse gas emissions drive extreme weather, displacement, food insecurity, and disease disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.
To breathe or not to breathe: Implications of hazardous air quality
This review examines the relationship between climate change, worsening air quality, and associated human health impacts, focusing on the spectrum of respiratory diseases and cancers linked to air pollution. The authors argue that governments and public health sectors must strengthen pollution control policies and reduce carbon and other pollutants to protect population health.
Public Awareness Of Plastic Pollution And Perceived Risks To Human Health.
This study aims to assess public awareness of plastic pollution and its health impacts by surveying urban and semi-urban communities about their plastic use habits and self-reported health outcomes. Researchers plan to compare families using plastic food-contact materials with those using non-plastic alternatives to identify gaps in awareness and potential health differences linked to everyday plastic exposure.
Risk perception of differet environmental concerns
This study investigated how individuals perceive and prioritize different environmental risks including microplastics, air pollution, and climate change, using survey data to compare risk perception across demographic groups. The findings reveal that awareness of microplastic risks lags behind other environmental concerns.
Climate Change, Exposome Change, and Allergy
Researchers review how climate change amplifies exposure to allergens and co-stressors including air pollution, temperature extremes, and nutritional shifts, finding that these intersecting exposome changes disproportionately worsen allergic respiratory diseases in vulnerable populations.
Assessing the Levels of Awareness among European Citizens about the Direct and Indirect Impacts of Plastics on Human Health
Researchers surveyed European citizens across multiple countries about their awareness of direct and indirect health impacts of plastic pollution, finding that awareness of plastic's environmental harms was widespread but that knowledge of specific health risks — including those from microplastics and chemical additives — was much lower.
Insights from the first Brazilian Symposium on Human Biometeorology
Not relevant to microplastics — this paper summarizes findings from the first Brazilian Symposium on Human Biometeorology, covering research gaps in the study of weather and climate effects on human health in Brazil.
Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions
This literature review proposes a preliminary taxonomy of climate emotions, categorizing emotional responses to the climate crisis into distinct types that influence resilience, climate action, and psychological well-being. The research argues that understanding the full range of climate emotions, from anxiety and grief to hope and determination, is essential for effective climate communication and action. Climate change and plastic pollution share emotional and behavioral dimensions, as both are driven by consumption patterns and require systemic behavioral change.
The climate crisis in clinical practice: Addressing air pollution, heat, and microplastics
This review examines how climate change-driven environmental threats including air pollution, extreme heat, and microplastics are already affecting patients in clinical settings. Researchers found that these exposures disproportionately harm vulnerable populations and that physicians need to be equipped to recognize and address the health effects of environmental degradation. The study argues that healthcare professionals have a critical role to play in both treating affected patients and advocating for policies that reduce fossil fuel-related pollution.
Addressing water resource management challenges in the context of climate change and human influence
This study identifies and documents the key challenges facing water resource management due to the combined pressures of climate change and human activity. Researchers found that droughts, floods, sea-level rise, and pollution are threatening both water quality and public health on a global scale. The study emphasizes that more sustainable approaches to water governance and infrastructure are urgently needed to address the growing gap between water supply and demand.
A bibliometric analysis of climate change risk perception: Hot spots, trends and improvements
A bibliometric analysis of 4,429 articles on climate change risk perception identified major research themes, leading authors, institutions, and trending topics from 1990 to the present. The analysis showed rapid growth in this field after 2015 and identified gaps in research from lower-income countries and on social media-mediated risk communication.
A cross-sectional study on the knowledge of and interest in Planetary Health in health-related study programmes in Germany
A cross-sectional survey of 1,303 students enrolled in health-related programs in Bavaria, Germany found moderate knowledge and high interest in Planetary Health topics. Students recognized connections between environmental health and human health but reported that Planetary Health content was poorly integrated into their university curricula.
Communicating ocean and human health connections: An agenda for research and practice
This review examines the emerging field of ocean and human health communication, arguing that effective messaging strategies linking ocean pollution to personal health outcomes can motivate public action and policy change more powerfully than broad environmental appeals.
Linking coastal environmental and health observations for human wellbeing
This paper proposes a framework for linking coastal environmental monitoring data with human health observations to create integrated coastal health indicators, identifying locations where climate change and pollution may create hotspots of health concern. The approach aims to improve understanding of how coastal environmental quality affects human wellbeing.
Evaluating the Quality of ChatGPT’s Climate-related Responses
Researchers evaluated the accuracy and quality of ChatGPT responses to climate-related questions, finding that while the model produces mostly correct information on climate topics, its answers tend to reflect common societal misunderstandings about climate change. The study highlights the risk of AI language models perpetuating misconceptions even when generating factually plausible-sounding content.
Scale validation and prediction of environmental health literacy in Brazil
Researchers surveyed nearly 400 people in Brazil to measure environmental health literacy — how well people understand the links between pollution and human health — and found that education, income, age, and ethnicity were the strongest predictors of awareness levels. The findings can help policymakers design targeted communication strategies for communities most vulnerable to environmental health risks.
Influence of climate change on emerging pathogens and human immunity
This review discusses how climate change-driven shifts in temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather events are altering the distribution and virulence of emerging pathogens, with downstream consequences for human and animal immunity. The authors examine interactions between environmental change, pathogen adaptation, and immune function, arguing that climate mitigation is essential for maintaining disease resistance in human populations.
Health psychology and climate change: time to address humanity’s most existential crisis
This paper argues that health psychologists need to actively address climate change because it is fundamentally a health crisis driven by human behavior. While not directly about microplastics, climate change and plastic pollution are closely linked environmental crises, as rising temperatures accelerate plastic breakdown into microplastics in the environment. The authors call for behavioral science expertise to help reduce consumption patterns that drive both greenhouse gas emissions and plastic waste.
Climate Change, Environment, and One Health
This review discusses how climate change drives biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, and the spread of microplastics, collectively increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases and putting pressure on healthcare systems, especially in lower-income countries.