By IDSE News Staff
Research has shown that more than 58% of human diseases caused by pathogens, such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria and Zika, have been—at some point—aggravated by climatic hazards, according to a team from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Nature Climate Change 2022. doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01426-1.).
The researchers performed a systemic search for empiric examples of the effects of 10 climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on each