AGU explores links between earth sciences and health

AGU boss, Christine McEntee.

The American Geophysical Union yesterday launched a new scientific journal to explore the links between earth sciences and health.

Called GeoHealth, the new open-access peer-reviewed periodical will span fields from agriculture to geology, ecology, atmospheric science and climate change and their impacts on human well-being. The journal will also include reviews and policy discussions.

"The impetus is the growing output of research in this area of geohealth," said Christine McEntee, executive director and CEO of AGU, a 62,000-member-strong organization of earth scientists. She noted that there has been a 46 percent increase in scientific publications dealing with health and earth sciences between 2010 and 2015.

"We want to bridge the human health community that does research in this area with the earth sciences community," McEntee added.

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