Mental health added to impact of climate change as global damage grows

Rising temperatures are leading to increased levels of stress, worsening anxiety and depression, and even suicide in the most extreme cases in Australia.

Climate change is already hitting the world's poor
and by 2030 it will contribute to 250,000
additional deaths annually, new research has found.CREDIT:

Scientists have identified for the first time an association between mean annual maximum temperatures pushed higher by climate change and suicides for both males and females across states and territories, according to a paper published by The Medical Journal of Australia on Thursday.

Read the story from The Age by Peter Hannam - “Mental health added to impact of climate change as global damage grows.”

90% of world's children are breathing toxic air, WHO study finds

Poisonous air is having a devastating impact on billions of children around the world, damaging their intelligence and leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, according to a report from the World Health Organization.

Children cover their face from air pollution in New Delhi, India. 

The study found that more than 90% of the world’s young people – 1.8 billion children – are breathing toxic air, storing up a public health time bomb for the next generation.

The WHO said medical experts in almost every field of children’s health are uncovering new evidence of the scale of the crisis in both rich and poor countries – from low birth weight to poor neurodevelopment, asthma to heart disease.

Read the story from The Guardian by Matthew Taylor - “90% of world's children are breathing toxic air, WHO study finds.”