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Meet Kutemwa Ogbu: Leading Climate and Health Conversations in South Texas
In the small farming community in southeast Montana, Big Sandy, healthcare professionals, farmers, and community members gathered on July 12th, 2025, for the first day of a two-day summit…
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Intersections of Farming, Climate, and Health: Health Care Professionals Learn How to Promote “Food as Medicine”
In the small farming community in southeast Montana, Big Sandy, healthcare professionals, farmers, and community members gathered on July 12th, 2025, for the first day of a two-day summit…
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Butte Air Quality Flags
Everything from the flu to lung cancers can be linked to poor air quality. The latest State of the Air Report from the American Lung Association shows Montana’s air quality getting worse…
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New Article in the Journal of Environmental Health, “The Climate World Is Changing, So Can We”
Over the past century, the world has experienced a dramatic increase in emissions from burning fossil fuels, resulting in changes to the climate across the globe (Lindsey, 2022). We know that the outcome of these changes on human health is far-reaching, with every child around the world at risk from at least one climate change…
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Let’s Talk Climate: ClimateRx
Clinicians and public health workers are in the front lines of the climate crisis, seeing the real impacts on patients and communities. But it can be difficult to engage with others about these facts…
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Reflections on COP27
It is an understatement to say that attending the United Nations Convention of Parties conference, also known as COP can be an overwhelming and humbling experience. Now in its 27th year, stakeholders gather from every part of the world to try to come to an agreement on the path forward to tackling climate change. Outside…
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Let’s Talk Climate: How Kaiser Permanente is Leading and Engaging on Climate Solutions
In this episode of Let’s Talk Climate, two leaders from Kaiser Permanente join us to discuss how patients and providers have experienced climate change, and the actions that they are taking: Seema Wadwha, the Executive Director of Environmental Stewardship at Kaiser Permanente and Dr. Colin Cave, the Medical Director of External Affairs, Government Relations and…
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Addressing climate change to be a top global priority for world leaders
This past month, I attended my first United Nations General Assembly in New York. As a UN Liaison for Sigma Nursing, I was granted special access to the assembly hall where world leaders gathered to discuss challenges we face as a global community. Climate change was a common concern. I listened intently as leaders from…
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The United Nations, Climate Change, Environmental Health, and You
The leading authority globally on climate change is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) within the United Nations. Every 5 years, the panel releases an extensive 3-part assessment on climate change that explores the science, the impacts, and the solutions. In February 2022, IPCC released findings from Working Group II as part of its…
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Action as an Antidote
The caption on one of my favorite cartoons reads: ”My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.” Published in the New Yorker in 2017, David Sipress aptly describes the endless stream of bad news that many of us experience daily in the world of climate change and COVID-19.…
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Healthy Babies Bright Futures for Climate Action
One in six American children have a neurological disability spanning from autism to IQ loss to ADHD. Diverse experts agree that before and after birth exposures to toxic chemicals and pollutants significantly increase kids’ risks for developing a neurodevelopmental disorder. Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF) is an organization working to create and support initiatives that…
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Let’s Talk Climate: Climate & Crisis Preparedness
September is National Preparedness Month and we are all aware of the growing risks. We are in the peak of hurricane season for the East Coast & Gulf South, a long wildfire season for much of the West, and deadly heat waves all over the country. These extreme weather events, along with the disruption they…
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Remembering Hurricane Katrina
Last week marked the 17th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the failure of levees in New Orleans, and the flooding of much of the city. I was a college student in New Orleans in 2005 and when I think about Katrina it brings intense memories. I remember the rushed decision to evacuate, joking with friends that…
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New Let’s Talk Climate Episode Now Available: “The Heat is On”
Extreme weather takes many forms: massive hurricanes, overwhelming floods, prolonged and severe droughts- but few are as harmful to as many as extreme heat. We know that high temperatures hurt some more than others: outdoor workers, those in urban heat islands, people without access to air conditioning, or those with medical conditions like asthma and…
