Anja Leetz Health&Climate Expert

Global water gaps under future warming levels - Nature Communications Water scarcity is a growing challenge in a warming world. This study examines how climate change may exacerbate water scarcity, showing the importance of robust water management strategies to address ...

Global water gaps under future warming levels

“water gaps”, or unsustainable water use – the shortfall where water demand exceeds supply

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Real-O-Mat Reality-Check statt Wahlversprechen. Positionier’ dich zu 20 politischen Forderungen und finde raus: Mit welcher Wahl wird’s auch real?

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Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality under climate change, demographic and adaptation scenarios in 854 European cities - Nature Medicine Modeled analyses of 854 European cities show that net temperature-related mortality will increase because of an increase in heat-related mortality exceeding future reductions in cold-related mortality...

Estimating future #heat-related and cold-related #mortality under #climate change, demographic and #adaptation scenarios in 854 European #cities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

Research is needed to protect peoples lives. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Global, regional, and national mortality burden attributable to air pollution from landscape fires: a health impact assessment study LFS air pollution induced a substantial global mortality burden, with notable geographical and socioeconomic disparities. Urgent actions are required to address such substantial health impact and the ...

New research shows more than 1.5 million people die each year from air pollution caused by wildfires: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This supports my thesis that fossil fuels & climate change are the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. @lshtm.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

They will go after Wikipedia.

They will go after libraries.

They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports.

They will go after archives.

Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy.

Thinking is the enemy.

My response to 99% of the news I’ve seen since Monday:

All of a Piece: Moving Past Fifty Years of Piecemeal Approaches to Plastic Pollution — The Science and Environmental Health Network By Rebecca Altman, writer and environmental sociologist, SEHN Board member

Great article on #plastics #ocean #pollution www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/1/...

The Heroes of the California Wildfires Are MAGA’s Worst Nightmare Thank you migrants, Mexicans, and also prisoners for saving American lives.

"They’re modeling solidarity. And if we’re going to have a shot at surviving the climate chaos that the 1% has created, we’re gonna need a whole lot more of it." - @franifio.bsky.social for @zeteo.com

It was common practice when I was young to turn off the engine, but it seems every generation has to learn and educate itself.

The official temperature numbers from NOAA/NCEI will come in soon, but here's a look at how we got through 2024, using one of our gridded datasets.

Here's daily average temperature anomalies for the contiguous US, aggregated throughout the 2024 year.

#StateOfClimate

And he is not even in office yet!

Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies - Social Economics Lab Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of global CO2 emissions, we study the understanding of and attitudes toward climate change

„Educational videos clarifying policy mechanisms increase support for climate policies; those merely highlighting climate change’s impacts do not.“

socialeconomicslab.org/research/pub...

Media Release: IPBES Nexus Assessment Summary for Policymakers, photos, ‘B-roll’ & media resources

Just in case you missed the nexus report: www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-... #Biodiversity, #Water, #Food, #Health and #Climate Change need to be tackled together, while current
approaches estimated cost is to be at least US$10-25 trillion per year.

Happy new year to friends and colleagues!

Das wünsche ich mir auch! Alles Gute für 2025!

Science should save all, not just some Discussions around global equity and justice in science typically emphasize the lack of diversity in the editorial boards of scientific journals, inequities in authorship, “parachute research,” domina...

International #EpidemicPreparednessDay

There is no epidemic preparedness until we make sure Global South countries have access to lifesaving vaccines & medicines

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability"

Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Crazy times, best to get back to real face to face engagement.

Millions have been watching 'La Palma' on Netflix, featuring a tsunami washing over the Canary Islands. 🌊
A scenario with much science behind it, given the risk of collapse of a flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano. Ocean model simulation of Abadie et al: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Climate Health Assessment Team (CHAT) Lead - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service

UKHSA is recruiting for a climate change/health lead.

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

The global tobacco industry is worth around £730 billion /year.

Their product has caused >200 MILLION DEATHS in the last 30 years.

Harm reduction? Why would they reduce harm? Harm is their business model.

Simplifying the universal health coverage narrative can help to achieve political action The narrative on universal health coverage should be centred around four core elements: universality, equity, adequate financing, and preparedness in public health emergencies, write Katri Bertram and...

#UHCDay: Why don’t #health advocates unite under this ☔️, whereby everyone everywhere accesses health services without financial hardship? One reason: an overly complex & technical #UHC narrative that doesn’t mobilize & resonate well politically: www.bmj.com/content/387/... @bmj.com

Polio im Abwasser: Eltern sollen Impfstatus ihrer Kinder überprüfen In Abwasserproben mehrerer Städte fand das RKI Erreger der Kinderlähmung. Nun appelliert die Ständige Impfkommission an Eltern, die Viren nicht zu unterschätzen – und Kinder gegebenenfalls impfen zu l...

Germany’s public health agency (RKI) calls for check and (where needed) update of #polio #vaccination status: www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/p... via @spiegel.de

Excited to be at the #UHCPartnership conference after a 5 year pause, due to Covid. Country to country sharing and learning. The collective power of wisdom in one room to strengthen #health systems extranet.who.int/uhcpartnersh...

Court overturns South Africa’s coal-fired power plans, protecting children’s health and the environment – The Mail & Guardian 1 500 megawatts of new coal power locked in landmark legal victory

Good news for children’s #health in South Africa. mg.co.za/the-green-gu...

Wellcome to bsky! Nice seeing you again!

Unfortunately the link does not work, Laura.

Floods in Valencia, Spain: then and now – in pictures As Spain marks one month since floods in Valencia killed 230 people, photographs taken four weeks apart show the results of work by thousands of people to clear debris and repair damage in the traumat...

Stark reminder of how important it is to correctly interpret data and to act upon it. Disaster preparedness www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...