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ClearInfluence 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.
Public perceptions of climate change and health – A cross-sectional survey study
Researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess public perceptions of the links between climate change and human health, examining awareness of how rising temperatures, extreme weather, air pollution, and environmental degradation affect morbidity and mortality. The study found variable levels of public understanding across demographic groups, with implications for health communication and climate policy engagement.
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.
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.
The age of anthropogenic disease
This commentary examines how the Anthropocene — the era of dominant human impact on Earth — is generating novel disease patterns, with climate change altering the geography of infectious disease, increasing cardiovascular mortality from temperature extremes, and reshaping how people live and age.
Impact of Climate Change on Animal Health
This review examines how climate change affects animal health and welfare, focusing on how heat stress impacts livestock species including cattle, poultry, and sheep, with physiological responses ranging from mild acclimation to severe stress and welfare concerns.
Infectious disease ecology and evolution in a changing world
This study examines how changing environmental conditions, particularly thermal shifts, can influence infectious disease dynamics. The research suggests that temperature conditions can strongly affect both host and pathogen traits related to infection.
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.
Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
This book on Planetary Health framed environmental degradation as a direct threat to human health across domains from pandemics to chronic disease to mental health, arguing that transformative changes in energy, food, housing, and transport systems are needed to simultaneously improve health outcomes and protect the natural systems on which human civilization depends.
Global warming: Anthopogenic or natural factor?
This paper analyzed the relative contributions of anthropogenic versus natural factors to global warming, reviewing evidence for climate change patterns and their causes. The analysis discussed examples of human-driven warming impacts and natural climate influences, concluding with recommendations for conscious consumption to reduce environmental burden.
Health Hazards due to Environmental Impacts
This review examined how environmental changes — including chemical contamination, climate shifts, and poor sanitation — negatively affect human health, concluding that chemical safety and environmental quality are foundational to preventing widespread disease.
The Synergistic Threat of Pollution and Climate Change
This chapter examines the combined threat of air pollution and climate change, discussing how the two global problems interact and amplify one another, with implications for human health and ecological systems.
Public 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.
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.
Impact of climate change and natural disasters on fungal infections
Researchers reviewed how climate change and natural disasters are making fungal infections more dangerous, as rising temperatures help fungi adapt to the human body's heat and spread into new geographic regions. Vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected, and the authors call for more research, funding, and policy attention to this growing but overlooked health threat.
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.
Drivers for the Emergence and re-emergence of Human Infectious Diseases, A Systematic review
This systematic review identified environmental changes, human behavior, and globalization as the primary drivers behind the surge in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases over recent decades. Climate change, deforestation, and urbanization were consistently linked to new disease outbreaks across multiple studies.
Environmental Impacts on Human Health
This review examines the relationship between environmental conditions and human health through scientific, philosophical, and Islamic perspectives, comparing how environmental factors affect human wellbeing and how human activities in turn degrade the natural environment.
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.
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.
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.
Climate Change and Its Influence on Food Contaminant Patterns
This chapter examines how climate change alters the distribution, behaviour, and risks of food contaminants including microplastics, mycotoxins, and heavy metals. Rising temperatures, extreme weather, and sea-level rise are shown to increase contaminant bioavailability and create new exposure pathways in global food systems.
Potential impacts of pandemics on global warming, agricultural production, and biodiversity loss
This paper examines the interconnected impacts of pandemics on global environmental challenges including climate change, agricultural production, and biodiversity loss, drawing on research from French and international institutions. It highlights how major disease outbreaks can disrupt both human systems and the natural environment in complex and sometimes unexpected ways.
Temperature related infectious disease mortality among infants and seasonality in Sweden, 1868-1892
Researchers investigated the association between ambient temperature, seasonality, and infectious disease mortality among infants in Sweden between 1868 and 1892, using historical parish records to examine how climate conditions shaped infant vulnerability in a high-mortality historical setting. The study found that temperature and seasonal patterns significantly influenced cause-specific infant mortality, providing historical context for understanding climate-health relationships.