Environmental & Analytical Toxicology

Law Centre 1, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, South Moti Bagh, New Delhi, India

Publications

• Original Research Article   
  Climate Change and Health Hazards
  Author(s): Apeksha Kumari* and Prashant Chaudhry
  
  Climate change can often appear as a distant, abstract issue. Evidence of climate change is often presented in terms of long-term averages, such as the fact that the earth is currently, after accounting for natural fluctuations, 1.1°C warmer than the 1880-1920 average, or that India has warmed by about 0.8°C since 1901. Invaluable as the science has been and grave as these numbers are, abstract data often does not adequately communicate the impacts of these changes on people’s lives. Overwhelming evidence shows that climate change presents growing threats to public health security from extreme weather-related disasters to wider spread of such vector-borne diseases as malaria and dengue. The impacts of climate on human health will not be evenly distributed around the world. The author attempts to analyse the health hazards due to climate change in the environment and how .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2161-0525.2022.12.674

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