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Major U.S. Climate Trends

Human health has always been influenced by climate and weather. Changes in climate and climate variability, particularly changes in weather extremes, affect the environment that provides us with clean air, food, water, shelter, and security. Climate change, together with other natural and human-made health stressors, threatens human health and well-being in numerous ways. Some of these health impacts are already being experienced in the United States.

Credit: U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyAllison Crimmins, Major U.S. Climate Trends, originally published in chapter 1 of The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment report, 2014.

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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