“Our warming planet is putting millions of us at risk for heat-related illness and even death,” says Kim Knowlton of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
 

Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of his pioneering research on climate change and human health.
 

Dr. Susan Miller writes about how doctors are already seeing the impact of climate change – drought, extreme heat, and floods – on their patients’ health.
 

As a global open-access health journal, JAMA Network Open is issuing a call for papers on the health outcomes and risks associated with climate change.

Climate change is causing an increase in the number of days of extreme heat and putting many U.S. lives at risk. Read letters from the Consortium sent to Representative Chu and Representative Grijalva on the problem of heat exposure of workers on the job.