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The organization was created by merging existing National Data Centers for Weather and Climate, Oceans, Coasts, and Geophysics with the goal of streamlining the collection and preservation of environmental data.
New research raises questions about the familiar map's ability to address long-term drying trends, including persistent dry spells across the American West.
The UNEP Environmental Data Explorer [1] (what was the GEO Data Portal until June 2012) was an authoritative source for data sets used by the UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database held more than 500 different variables, as national, sub regional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data ...
The Climate Prediction Center ( CPC) is a United States federal agency that is one of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, which are a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 's National Weather Service.
Overview of health effects and pathways. The effects of climate change on human health can be grouped into direct and indirect effects.: 1867 Both types of effects interact with social dynamics.
The Global Climate and Health Alliance ( GCHA) is an organisation, whose members are health professionals and institutes from around the world, with the purpose of tackling climate change to protect and promote public health. It was formed in 2011 in Durban and by 2015 had admitted over 1,700 health organisations and 8,200 hospitals and health facilities as members, and gathered 13 million ...
Climate change can have negative impacts on maternal health and create conditions that result in increases in gender-based violence, including harmful practices such as child marriage. Climate-related disasters may strain the capacity of health systems and hinder access to SRHR services.
9 April: in its first ruling on climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland's failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis breached 2000 women plaintiffs' human rights to effective protection from the "the serious adverse effects of climate change on lives, health, well-being and quality of life".