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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Aug 22

Nearly two-thirds of US pharmaceutical mfg facilities are located in disaster-prone areas, with 6,819 production sites affected by weather emergencies between 2019-2024. Hurricane Helene recently triggered nationwide IV fluid shortages after damaging a key facility.

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Threats of Weather Disasters for Drug Manufacturing Facilities in the US

This study assesses the frequency with which climate-related disaster events affected counties with US drug production facilities.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jul 24

Rolling back environmental protections means: higher healthcare costs, dirtier air, increased energy bills, & richer oil companies. #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalProtection

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jul 18

One of the most visible examples occurred in May 2025, when the U.S. government discontinued the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Billion-Dollar Disasters Database, a resource used by researchers, emergency planners, & policymakers to track high-cost weather events since 1980

The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jul 18

In recent months, the United States (U.S.) has witnessed an unprecedented contraction in its federal climate-health infrastructure.

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Erasing the evidence: United States climate rollbacks and the implications for public health

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jul 14

As smoke from Manitoba wildfires prompts air quality warnings in four provinces and several U.S. states, one expert says increased awareness on the impacts is necessary.

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Amid wildfires, air quality awareness is critical for everyone: expert

As smoke from Manitoba wildfires prompts air quality warnings in four provinces, one expert says increased awareness on the impacts is necessary.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jul 3

New findings published by the National Cancer Institute link tiny, toxic air pollutants to changes in lung cancer tumors at the genomic level in people who have never smoked.

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NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers - Inside Climate News

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that particulate matter pollution impacts lung cancer at the DNA level.

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · Jul 2

As the Trump administration guts the EPA and clean air act…

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jul 2

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.

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Major climate change reports are removed from U.S. websites

The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · Jun 27

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jul 1

Why?

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Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory | CNN

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, superchargin...

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · Jun 30

Only 15 short years from now.

Right around the time when the AMOC collapses(causing devastating crop failures in northern latitudes) and ocean pH drops below the ability for oxygen producing phytoplankton to survive (collapsing the ocean food web leading to global starvation).

#ThanksExxonMobile

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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is the only way civilization will survive.

Unfortunately, the oligarchs have a stranglehold on the western governments that could enact such laws and have duped the voting masses. Their only goal is to see how much money they can accumulate before they die

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UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 29

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N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People - Inside Climate News

Environmentalists are suing to stop the flow of 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water supply, which one local water utility found at concentrations 17 times higher than the EPA’s health advisory goal.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 29

StarPet, a mammoth factory in north Asheboro that manufactures PET polymers, derived from fossil fuels and used in polyester fibers and plastic bottles, is releasing 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water supply 17x higher than the EPA’s health advisory goal.

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N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People - Inside Climate News

Environmentalists are suing to stop the flow of 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water supply, which one local water utility found at concentrations 17 times higher than the EPA’s health advisory goal.

insideclimatenews.org

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 28

Why?

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NOAA give climate data new home after Trump executive order

NOAA is a federal agency that provides "daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring," among many other weather and ocean related things.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Jun 28

Congress is trying to kill new investment in solar and wind power.

Meanwhile global warming is accelerating.

This is a death wish, on a national and global scale.

Data from NASA showing that the rate of global temperature change is accelerating.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 20

The review also referenced research estimating that an individual may inhale around 69,000 microplastic particles every year.

The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 20

Researchers found different types, with polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate, also known as PET, being the most common. These materials are commonly used in food packaging and plastic bottles.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 20

News Medical discussed the scientific review, published in the journal Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, which analyzed lung tissue from 13 autopsies. Out of those samples, 11 contained microplastics

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Air pollution and its impacts on health: Focus on microplastics and nanoplastics

Air pollution represents a significant public health concern, contributing to approximately 6.7 million premature deaths annually. Among the various p…

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jun 17

Humidity will soon surge to extreme levels across 40 states.

Find out where there will be excessive heat and humidity — and how humidity patterns are changing here:

Maps show the cities about to experience extreme humidity and heat

Humidity will soon surge to extreme levels across 40 states. Find out where there will be excessive heat and humidity — and how humidity patterns are changing.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 16

New research by scientists at Australia's Flinders University has found a link between new cases of sleep apnea and climate change, which is on trend with many chronic conditions and diseases expected to be more prevalent as temperatures change.

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Sleep apnea cases to rise 45% and one global factor is to blame

In 2025, around 24 million Americans are estimated to suffer from sleep apnea, and around 90% of these cases are undiagnosed. Now, a groundbreaking new study warns that this is going to rapidly increa...

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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · Jun 12

In a new study, Yale researchers, including Profs. Xiaomei Ma and Kai Chen, found that ozone pollution, also called smog, and high temperatures together increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack. Learn more ⬇️
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Star music, Kavli kudos, and summertime heart risks

Researchers listen to “music” made by stars, consider the heart risks of hot, smoggy days, and earn kudos in geoscience, public health, and systems biology.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 12

The World Health Organization has issued a stark warning: the climate crisis is also a health crisis – and it’s already claiming lives.

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Climate emergency is a health crisis ‘that is already killing us,’ says WHO

With 2024 confirmed as the hottest year on record, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning: the climate crisis is also a health crisis – and it’s already claiming lives.

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The Climate Crisis is a Healthcare Crisis @healthclimatecrisi.bsky.social · Jun 7

Released last month, the forecaster combines weather data and epidemiological research with Mercer’s own health claims database to project costs over a ten-year span. It hones in on four specific perils — extreme heat, poor air quality, flooding and hurricanes

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Climate change will cost your healthcare plan. Analysts want to know how much.

Extreme weather, rising temperatures and increased air pollution all threaten employee health — but executives and finance teams may not be paying attention.

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