Global warming could increase deaths from injury by 1,600 per year in the US
Researchers analysed death and temperature data collected from 1980 to 2017, to estimate the effects of climate change on the rates of injury deaths in the U.S.
Liz Hanna is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Australian National University Climate Change Institute. Dr Hanna’s is President of the Climate and Health Alliance, a Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), and also the Australian College of Nursing.