{"id":10461,"date":"2017-03-18T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T23:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2017-03-18T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T23:50:41","slug":"climate-change-and-health-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/climate-change-and-health-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change and health impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Live Science<\/em> posted a map this week which described impacts on human and animal health which are occurring because of changes in climate over time. \u00a0Impacts vary depending on what part of the country you are in because temperatures and precipitation will change in different ways and work on different disease vectors like deer ticks which are not present in all parts of the country. \u00a0You can read this story at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/58270-climate-change-health-effects-united-states.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/58270-climate-change-health-effects-united-states.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of other climate and health stories I have seen in the news lately:<\/p>\n<p><em>Time<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4684480\/why-an-early-spring-is-very-bad-news-for-your-health\/?xid=newsletter-brief\">Why an Early Spring is Very Bad News for Your Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Scientific American<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/doctors-warn-climate-change-threatens-public-health\/?WT.mc_id=SA_FB_HLTH_NEWS\">Doctors Warn Climate Change Threatens Public Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/climate-change-and-health-map-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10462\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/climate-change-and-health-map-2-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/climate-change-and-health-map-2-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/climate-change-and-health-map-2-161x138.jpg 161w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/climate-change-and-health-map-2.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Science posted a map this week which described impacts on human and animal health which are occurring because of changes in climate over time. \u00a0Impacts vary depending on what part of the country you are in because temperatures and precipitation will change in different ways and work on different disease vectors like deer ticks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":10462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10463,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/10463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}