Climate Change Hits Home - Human Health

Climate Change Hits Home - Human Health

In this week's climate change story, a warming world leads to fewer healthy people. Climate change means higher temperatures where salmonella, water-born parasites, and the mosquitoes, ticks and rodents that carry West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease can thrive.

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Climate Change Hits Home

Stories of climate change impacts on the developing world are buzzing in the US media. But the climate is changing in America too, even if not as loudly proclaimed. Link TV's new weekly mini-series "Climate Change Hits Home" illustrates that the impact of climate change is not just somebody else's problem.
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