介绍： After nearly eight years, California emerged from its longest drought of the millennium, just before the start of a fire season.
Experts say higher temperatures from climate change make for drier vegetation which provides ready fuel for wildfires.
This is just one example of how a warming planet will affect p...

介绍： After nearly eight years, California emerged from its longest drought of the millennium, just before the start of a fire season.
Experts say higher temperatures from climate change make for drier vegetation which provides ready fuel for wildfires.
This is just one example of how a warming planet will affect public health in the future, says Dr. Nick Watts, executive director of the Lancet Countdown.
“If we continue down sort of current, current trajectory, it comes close to wiping out the last 50 years of gains that we have seen in public health all around the world.”
An international report by the Lancet Countdown says a baby born today is likely to see the earth warm four degrees by his or her 71st birthday.
“In terms of the health impacts of climate change, this is anything from the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue, like malaria.