www.commondreams.org/news/climate... #endangermentfinding

Had a nice interview with Rich Gawel at @gohealio.bsky.social and discussed healthcare’s role in #climate adaptation and mitigation after giving at talk at the Power of Women in Medicine Conference. www.healio.com/news/allergy... @womeninmedicine.bsky.social

Illinois healthcare people interested in climate action—come join us!

A video about our work at Nordson Green Earth Foundation www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPik...

At Nordson Green Earth, we get to work with some great interns! Malcolm, a sophomore at Tulane, helped us with our birdwatching community science project. Check out this blog about his experiences with birdwatching and lessons it’s taught him along the way. www.nordsongreenearth.org/post/birdwat...

Fantastic www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

The survey remains open until 9/1. Chicago residents please fill out and share widely to help in this community-wide heat resilience effort.

CU Climate and Health Science Policy Fellow, Sheetal Rao, MD, brings community, health, and justice to people on the front lines of climate change. Read more about her work: https://news.cuanschutz.edu/medicine/cu-climate-and-health-science-policy-fellow-creates-greener-communities-in-illinois

🌇 If you think it’s hot outside today, 30 years ago, Chicago was in the midst of a public health crisis in the form of a deadly heatwave. To find out whether Chicago is prepared for future heatwaves, listen to @uiceohs.bsky.social's @khedrao.bsky.social on @wbez.org at www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

Our panel on extreme heat and what’s changed since the Chicago heat wave 30 yrs ago www.wbez.org/reset-with-s... Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ Chicago

Teaching 18-25 year olds about air pollution this week as part of @uicpublichealth.bsky.social @uiceohs.bsky.social new Greening Remedies for Optimal Wellness (GROW) institute. Anyone have a 20-50 minute fun, interactive activity to help them understand #airpollution? #climateeducation

‘How to stay safe and comfortable during the coming heat wave’ Words from @khedrao.bsky.social in Morning Edition today. I appreciate the clarification on heat and humidity and their effect on the most vulnerable.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Practical tools to align planetary health objectives within the current Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation Process - ScienceDirect

Antifungal compounds are vital for protecting the health of humans, animals, and plants.” www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Addressing Antifungal Drug Resistance — A “One Health–One World” Challenge | New England Journal of Medicine

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Trump’s NIH cuts aren’t just numbers. They are delayed cures, abandoned treatments, futures stolen, lives that will be lost. This is why we Stand Up For Science. #StandUpForScience #SummerFightForScience

www.union-bulletin.com/opinion/opin... Commentary: Blue Origin flight reminds us there is no feminism without environmentalism | Opinion Columns | union-bulletin.com

As the anniversary of the deadly 1995 heat wave approaches, Chicago is working with community members, university partners, and healthcare professionals in developing new measures to keep residents safe. Chicagoans: Help us shape heat policy by completing this survey by 6/10: lnkd.in/g2K8dhUd #heat

My editorial in today’s Chicago Tribune on #climatechange and #womenshealth www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/23/o... #opedproject #publicvoices #planetaryhealth

At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided. From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives. We need everyone in this fight. The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in? The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU

🧪 Antibiotics in our rivers: a global problem A new study has found that 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics from human use end up in rivers every year. In 6 million km of rivers, levels are high enough to harm ecosystems or promote resistance. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas... #SciComm #WaterQuality #AMR

House Republicans waited until the middle of the night to pass a measure that gives away millions of acres of public lands to private developers and oil and gas, mining, and logging corporations.

🌫️🧠 Air pollution harms brain health – especially language. A UK study links long-term exposure to NO₂ and PM2.5 with worse cognition in older adults, with the strongest effects on language ability. Even 'average' pollution levels carry risks 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gero... #SciComm #AirPollution 🧪

“Gov. Mills stood up to a playground bully and incited his wrath. Fortunately, Mainers know when something stinks. And when it comes to protecting our independence and our fishing heritage, we also know how to fight.” Powerful op-ed from @conathan.bsky.social. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/08/o...

The polycrisis (equity, peace and environment) needs more activism..that thoughtfully integrates creativity and challenges norms in ways that trigger our imagination and appeal to a willingness to act.

"Academics can no longer resort to only publishing papers... there is a need to consider how to make best use of academic knowledge & creativity to support diverse activism: in board rooms, with corporate leaders, with politicians, youth organisations, universities, & in the streets"

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.

The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone. Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time. The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.

Check out this detailed cost-benefit analysis on the Clean Air Act, from 1990-2010. "Our central benefits estimate exceeds costs by a factor of more than 30 to one, and the high benefits estimate exceeds costs by 90 times. Even the low benefits estimate exceeds costs by about three to one."

Metered-dose asthma inhalers contain HFAs with over >1000 X’s the global warming potential of CO2. These lung disease treatments account for ~3% of the carbon footprint of the UK’s NHS and in the U.S. cause emissions roughly equivalent to those of 550,000 cars each year. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you were in a science related field and were fired by Trump, Congress wants to hear from you. democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

IL Gov JB Pritzker is sounding the 🚨 alarm Pritzker is stepping up to fill a Dem leadership void as the Trump-Musk regime carries out its coup attempt --- Please read Prtizker's entire thread

Do not obey in advance

“Climate change is the greatest global health threat facing the world in the 21st century, but it is also the greatest opportunity to redefine the social and environmental determinants of health.” -Lancet Countdown #medsky #greensky insideclimatenews.org/news/2002202...

SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s a good time to avoid buying from these brands in general, and on Feb 28th.

Have any other prescribers noticed that some manufacturers of glp-1 agonists want us to go up on the dose even when the patient is losing weight on the current dosage? I’ve had a few instances where they require a peer-to-peer to avoid increasing the dose!! #medicine

Perspective by Eleanor R. Menzin, MD: With U.S. politics threatening to erase the gains of science, reduce access to vaccines, and undermine their vast public health benefit, what is a conscientious pediatrician to do? Read the full Perspective: nej.md/4iZNHQW

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Like this sort of analysis wouldn't be nearly as impactful in the US because we offload all our healthcare costs onto consumers, so people just don't go to the doctor until they literally die

Vaccines are good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. "But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.

“Nature supports our economy, our health and well-being, national security and safety from fire and floods..The loss of the [NNA] means we’re losing important information that we need to ensure that nature and people thrive.” Not all heroes wesr capes! #greensky www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi

A very simple script. Feel free to adjust for your needs. "I JUST READ THAT MUSK AND TRUMP ARE CUTTING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CANCER AND ALZHEIMER RESEARCH MONEY. I DIDN'T VOTE FOR CANCER. ARE YOU SUPPORTING THIS? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO STOP THEM?" reps.fyi

“For every year we wait to act, it’s 7 to 8 percent compounded progress lost,” Project Drawdown executive director Jonathan Foley told the Milken Institute. philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/philant...

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.