Climate change is a grave threat to our health. Time is running out to act

Climate change is a grave threat to our health. Time is running out to act The world is finally waking up to the enormity of the public health threat posed by climate change after a summer of searing temperatures left a trail of destruction stretching across the globe.

The effects of these heatwaves have recently been underscored by a groundbreaking report from the Lancet Countdown, which provides an annual global barometer on the health impacts of climate change. The Daily Telegraph

See also:

• The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come The Lancet
• Climate change needs public health campaign similar to tobacco as extreme heat threatens to overwhelm hospitals, experts warn The Independent