climate

Research has highlighted how weather extremes worsened by climate change are now a major national public health threat.  The study, led by the University of Bristol and published today in Nature Communications, showed how the death toll from temperature hazards overtook the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the South West region of England, when the UK was in the throes of the pandemic. Lead author Dr Eunice Lo, Research Fellow in Climate Change and Health at the University’s Cabot Institute for the Environment and Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, said: “The statistics are stark and illustrate how high the

Climate: More people died from hot or cold weather conditions than COVID in parts of UK as seen on The Hippocratic Post.