Health effects of climate change
The guardian has provided a short video introduction to the health implications of a warming world narrated by Hugh Montgomery director of the UCL institute for human health and performance. Take a look here
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Predicting weekly variation of Culex tarsalis in the Canadian Prairies [J Med Entomol. 2012]
West-Nile virus provides an interesting, observed, epidemiological model for infectious disease. This is because, since it’s incursion into the Northern Hemisphere, it has rapidly spread across North America. This article, […]
The Environment is placed at the centre of the future of European Public Health.
WHO regional office for Europe has launched it’s plan to strengthen public health services across the region at the 5th European Public Health Association conference in Malta today. It has […]
Impact of environment on mosquito response to pyrethroid insecticides: facts, evidences and prospects
Resistance to pyrethroid insecticides amongst mosquito species is increasing worldwide at a dramatic rate. This has implications for serious mosquito borne diseases such as dengue, malaria and filariasis. Although not […]
Mapping Health and Climate
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have just published an Atlas of health and climate providing scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and […]
The Times says ‘The bike is the future and the task for British cities now must be to adapt’
On the first anniversary of the Times’ ‘Cities fit for cycling‘ the newspaper makes it clear it is not going to let this issue go away. Solving this problem will […]
“No change” on policy for wind-farms, says PM
David Cameron has said that there will be no change in the government’s policy on sustainable energy. This comes in response to comments at the centre of a coalition dispute […]
The Microbial Greenhouse 