Health and health facilities

As the climate warms because of heat-trapping pollution, spring is arriving earlier and summer temperatures are lingering later into the fall. As a result, mosquitoes can emerge earlier, remain active longer, and spread disease over a longer season.

Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.

Sufficient sleep quality and duration are essential for people’s health and well-being, but hotter nighttime temperatures are making it harder for people to get the rest they need.

This study examines associations between ambient temperature and hospital admissions for mental health disorders among children, adolescents and young adults, and to project future heat-attributable admissions under various climate change scenarios.

Twin earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026, causing major damage in Caracas and a nearby coastal city, La Guaira. At the time of publication, 3,685 people have been declared dead, and more than 30,000 remain missin

This exploratory analysis estimates the economic value of “climate services for health”, defined as producing and applying climate knowledge to enhance health decisions and services.

This evidence-based policy guide highlights how well-designed climate actions across key sectors, including transport, energy, food systems, urban development and water, can deliver substantial and immediate health co-benefits.

This opinion piece argues that mistrust in Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is rooted less in misinformation than in histories of conflict, neglect and unequal care, calling for locally led, trust-based public health action.