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Last year was the first calendar year with a global mean temperature of more than 1.5°C above the 18
Under the Biden administration the US once again became the world’s largest producer of oil and gas.
To begin my 14th year podcasting . . . , per the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Unv
After heart disease cancer is the leading cause of death in the US. Forty percent of Americans will
The human rights/public health crisis known as US border policy serves as further proof of what Rich
Beyond roughly 1,700 NFL players, five to six million children participate in tackle football. As a
Harvard Chan School of Public Health’s Dr. Troy Brennan argues in sum that because government Medica
This century drug overdose deaths have equaled roughly 1.1 million largely due to overdose deaths am
Climate denial remains rife in the US. For example, in Washington, D.C., nearly 25% of the current
In the recent past, hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition have (re)gained policymakers’ interest
In late 2020 the Congress passed the No Surprises Act largely intended to address patient “surprise,
Over the past four decades the US has, per a 2019 JAMA-published study, made a “clear lack of progre
Mr. Burger joins me to discuss climate crisis-related litigation here and abroad and its effectivene
Climate-related health effects are typically defined or limited to those resulting from extreme weat
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court in June 2022 reversed the court’s
Over the past 12 years this podcast has discussed increasing corporate dominance of healthcare deliv
Research published last month in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences by Prof. Abraham and his colleague
In his soon-to-be-published book, Dr. Chaudhary argues the climate crisis or the Anthropocene era is
Sepsis presents an enormous public health threat. There are for approximately 1.7 million hospital
In part because there are over 10,000 known human diseases and symptoms thereof may have numerous po