Tagged: Climate crisis

  • Heat threatens children’s right to education: Here’s what we can do

    Discussion of climate change typically involves natural phenomena: raging wildfires, record flooding, ruinous drought. Less frequently examined, but equally important, is the effect of our warming planet on a child’s right to education. 

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  • Climate change is increasing antimicrobial resistance. Here’s what we can do.

    Antibiotics are the first line of defense in protecting humans and animals against bacteria and other microbes. Microbes, like humans, want to survive. They can do that by mutating to adapt to their changing environment, unfavorable conditions and any threats they encounter — threats such as antibiotics.

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