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Climate change impacting health of hundreds of millions around the world

October 16, 2017

Hundreds of millions of people are already badly affected by climate change. A report published in the Lancet details effects such as changing temperatures that help spread infectious diseases, uneven crop yields leading to malnutrition, and increased heat waves affecting the elderly worldwide. However, directly tackling the effects of climate change also will mean a marked improvement for global health. 

Source: The Lancet