Respiratory Disease Risk Increase
Climate change poses many risks to human health, including increased respiratory disease risk from exposure to allergens and harmful air pollutants. Research shows that climate change has led to longer pollen seasons, allowing for the production of more plant-based allergens, and more active wildfire seasons that increase human exposure to harmful smoke. Higher temperatures associated with climate change can also lead to an increase in ozone, a harmful air pollutant.
Read MoreDec 16, 2019 | Princeton University
Climate change could make RSV respiratory infection outbreaks less severe, more common
Oct 25, 2018 | BuzzFeed News
An Incurable Fungal Disease Is Spreading In The Western US, And Climate Change Could Make It Worse
Feb 12, 2018 | Miami Herald
If you live in Florida, doctors say climate change is already affecting your health
Dec 7, 2017 | California Air Resources Board
Southern California Air Quality
Jan 24, 2017 | Boston Children's Hospital
Global Health Map
Feb 25, 2016 | The Weather Channel
Allergy Tracker
Feb 12, 2021 | PLOS One
Associations between alteration in plant phenology and hay fever prevalence among US adults: Implication for changing climate
Feb 12, 2021 | The Lancet - Planetary Health
Temperature-related changes in airborne allergenic pollen abundance and seasonality across the northern hemisphere: a retrospective data analysis
Feb 10, 2021 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the US
Earth Systems Signals
Global warming is causing widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere.
Heat Signals
The Earth is getting hotter due to human activities that release heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
Drought Signals
Climate change is making droughts more likely to occur, and more severe when they do.
Wildfires Signals
Climate change is increasing the size, frequency, intensity and seasonality of wildfires.
Hurricanes Signals
Warmer temperatures increase the rate of water evaporation, which feeds moisture and energy into storms.
Floods Signals
Worsening floods due to climate change are putting a growing number of communities at risk.
