Climate, health crises must be resolved together, experts say
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FILE - A health worker tests a blood sample to check for dengue at the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Oct. 22, 2024. Climate change nurtures fever-carrying mosquitoes in new places — one health impact of rising temperatures, experts say.
Ahead of next week’s U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, health experts warn that the climate crisis is also a health crisis and say they must be addressed in tandem to save the planet for future generations.
FILE - In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity, Tiehm's buckwheat grows in the high desert in the Silver Peak Range of western Nevada about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas, June 1, 2019. A rendering of a processing facility planned at Ioneer Ltd's lithium mine is displayed by the US Bureau of Land Management during a news conference in Reno, Nev., Oct. 24, 2024, announcing the bureau's approval of a permit for the project.