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Trees provide a host of benefits, according to experts—they can combat extreme heat, expand access to nature, reduce people’s stress and blood pressure levels, promote physical activity, improve and foster community pride.
Rachel Nethery, assistant professor of biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, uses her quantitative skills to tackle big questions in environmental health.
Tackling the consequences of climate change requires an all-hands-on-deck effort, drawing on expertise from a wide range of disciplines and people, according to a panel of Harvard University experts.
Amid more frequent, intense, destructive, and deadly wildfires in the U.S., a federally appointed commission recommends developing more proactive strategies that make communities and landscapes more resilient and adaptable to the threat.
Hair products sold in neighborhoods that are poorer or that have a higher percentage of residents of color were more likely to contain higher levels of hazardous chemicals than products sold in predominantly white and affluent areas, according to a study from researchers at Harvard Chan School.
Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen says that retrofitting old school buildings to better handle the realities of extreme heat and other climate change-related issues is “not that hard.”
Increasing energy efficiency in buildings can save money—and it can also decrease the carbon emissions and air pollution that lead to climate change and health harms. But the climate and health benefits of reducing buildings’ energy consumption are rarely quantified. Now, researchers from Harvard Chan School, Boston University, and Oregon State University have developed a new method for calculating the health and climate impacts of these energy savings.
Liz Willetts, visiting scholar and planetary health policy director in Harvard Chan School’s Department of Environmental Health, explains the importance of nations aligning their biodiversity policies to optimize outcomes for both biodiversity and health.
At a Harvard Chan School seminar, Marc Weisskopf shared his research about head injuries in National Football League players, highlighting the players’ risk of cardiovascular disease, as well as conditions other than neurodegenerative disease that can lead to cognitive issues.
