Mother Jones

Indigenous technique of controlled burning to tackle wildfires reintroduced in California. The method was suppressed under an 1880 fire ban by the US Forest Service.

'The risks of infection go through the roof, for all communicable diseases. So ensuring that people are vaccinated is a logical thing to do as part of managing the risks of a rapidly changing climate,' says Alistair Woodward who is an epidemiologist at the University of Auckland, according to a report by Mother Jones...

Big wildfires like Colorado's thrive in dry air, low humidity, and high winds; climate change is going to make those conditions more frequent over the next century, according to Mother Jones. Low levels of winter snow and spring rains in the Western states have further acerbated this year's fire season. In addition, droughts, beetles and settlements within the high risk areas further complicate the fire problem...

Mother Jones reports that climate change-related disasters caused $14 billion in health costs in first decade of the 2000s, according to a new paper published this week in the journal 'Health Affairs'. The paper points to the fact that climate change is something that both health care providers and insurers might want to pay more attention to...

'Global warming could kill a million people a year by 2030. So why's the US stalling on a deal that would help countries adapt?' asks Kate Shepherd, whilst negotiators at the Cancun climate talks attempt to reach an agreement on how best to address climate change in the coming years...