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A Climate Change Perspective … from Generation Z

Posted on March 13, 2019December 3, 2022

My name is Olivia Spirito. I am presently a senior in high school, and I am a volunteer at WiRED. I believe that climate change is putting my generation and future generations at risk. Weather-related threats such as floods, hurricanes, droughts and forest fires will cause environments to become inhospitable. The lives of people who survived the recent forest fires in California (November 2018), the destructive Alabama tornado (March 2019) and the current raging flood in Afghanistan have been drastically changed forever. It is my hope that I and my future family will have a chance to live comfortably without the fear of uncontrollable factors like these catastrophic events.

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Marine Mammal Illness Possibly Related to Environmental Conditions

Posted on March 1, 2019December 3, 2022

I am an employee and volunteer with The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. As the marine mammal hospital with the world’s largest number of patients, the Center advances global ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research and education.

Climate Change

WHO Names Top Ten Threats to Global Health

Posted on January 26, 2019December 3, 2022

On January 21, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a list of ten threats (see sidebar) impacting global health, which WHO and its partners will focus on in 2019. According to WHO, “The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises.”

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Sidestepping Climate Change to Promote Environmental Policy

Posted on January 13, 2019December 3, 2022

Life on the planet is remarkably interconnected; humans, animals, we might even add plants, interact in delicate, mutually dependent associations. Presiding over all living things are the air and water — the environment that sustains us. WiRED International’s focus on health education has increasingly promoted the unifying perspective known as One Health — the intersection of human, animal and environmental health.

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Climate Change, Pollution and Health

Posted on November 18, 2018December 1, 2022

Many of WiRED’s board members, staff and volunteers live in California, and, as I write this essay, we are holed up in our homes, able to venture outside only for chores and obligations we cannot avoid. When I worked in Iraq and stayed in safe-houses, it was sometimes the same.

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WiRED Marks One Health Day

Posted on November 2, 2018December 1, 2022

November 3, 2018, is One Health Day. One Health Day reminds us of the critical link among humans, animals and the environment we all share. It further reminds us that to address the health of human populations, we must also address the health of animals and of the planet that hosts all living things.

Environment

NIH Studies Explore Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interactions

Posted on June 24, 2018December 1, 2022

Do animals have the power to benefit human health? For the past 10 years the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded an ongoing range of studies focused on humans’ relationships with animals.

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Infections from Ticks and Mosquitoes Are Multiplying Rapidly

Posted on May 17, 2018December 1, 2022

Spring is here. The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing — and the insects are spreading infections at an alarming pace. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that infectious diseases from mosquito, tick and flea bites more than tripled in the United States from 2004 to 2016.

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Veterinarians Play Key Role in the Concept of “One Health”

Posted on April 28, 2018December 1, 2022

Veterinarians work to protect the health of animals. They know that keeping animals and pets healthy also protects the health of people and the environment.

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Earth Day is Every Day

Posted on April 20, 2018December 1, 2022

Threats to the health of our planet — such as climate change, pollution, deforestation and species extinction — make this Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, a vital time to reflect and to act to protect our world.