Racial health equity improving

Overall cancer deaths in the US have been declining since the early 1990s, but they declined the most among those for whom the rate has been highest – Black men, according to a government study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The healing field is still not level, as Black Americans still die…

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China’s smog

Over the past seven years, China – the world’s largest producer of air pollution – has reduced its total emissions by 40 percent. That reduction amounts to about three quarters of the global reduction in emissions, according to a report by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. China’s air quality is still…

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Heat Waves

Note that heat waves are still less frequent and less extreme in the US than they were a century ago, according the most recent U.S. National Climate Assessment report. But they have indeed been rising in frequency since the 1960s with no end in sight. Yet heat mortality – the rate of deaths attributed to…

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Heat waves

Note that heat waves are still less frequent and less extreme in the US than they were a century ago, according the most recent U.S. National Climate Assessment report. But they have indeed been rising in frequency since the 1960s with no end in sight. Yet heat mortality – the rate of deaths attributed to…

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