January 16, 2023 - Urban areas where the heat-island effect occurs can make summer heat especially unbearable. Melbourne’s western suburbs suffer from a lack of tree cover, averaging less than 6% tree canopy, compared with 26% ...
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As Santos sponsors the Tour Down Under, it’s time to ban fossil fuel advertising
January 13, 2023 - Dr Kate Wylie writes a powerful opinion article stating why the #TourDownUnder should not be sponsored by the fossil fuel giant Santos. Dr Wylie writes, that fossil fuels, such as ...
The New Daily: Climate change and extreme weather events have doctors worried
January 13, 2023 - When extreme weather happens, there is always a health risk. Australians have seen the impacts of severe flooding on the nation’s east coast in 2022 and now in Western Australia’s ...
Croakey: As devastating floods raise wide-ranging health concerns, experts stress importance of planning for future climate events
January 13, 2023 - The record-breaking floods in the Kimberley region of Western Australia have had far-reaching impacts on communities, infrastructure, transport, emergency, and health services. Experts have called on federal and state governments ...
Daily Telegraph: Mapped- Australia’s looming heatwave problem
December 19, 2022 - Australian heatwaves are set to be more severe, with massive implications for work, sport and health. According to the data from Monash University’s 360 info team, the trend will be ...
Croakey: COP27 – a missed opportunity for Australian health ministers and departments to lead on climate action
December 16, 2022 - The recent COP27 meeting was an important opportunity to advance health and climate policy discussions. However, Australian health and medical leaders have expressed disbelief at the silence from Australia’s health ...
ABC: Climate change is impacting mental health. Queensland farmers are doing something about it
December 16, 2022 - Farmers and rural communities in large parts of regional and rural Queensland are seeing the impacts of climate change first-hand. Community support, collaboration and resilience are helping them to deal ...
NewsGP: The overlooked health hazard lurking in many homes by Dr Ben Ewald
December 9, 2022 - For a child with asthma who lives in a home with a gas stove, 30% of their risk of asthma is from stove exposure, writes Dr Ben Ewald. The evidence ...
Media release: Doctors call for better education on indoor gas health risks
December 5, 2022 - Despite the known health risks of cooking with gas, doctors are often unaware of the risks, according to an article that has been published in the Australian Journal of General Practice. ...
Dr Ying Gu for Women’s Agenda: Climate change has women’s health consequences that must be addressed
November 29, 2022 - We know about the impact of climate change on our environment, but what about on fertility and pregnancy? Climate change, fertility and pregnancy are not typically discussed together, however, obstetrician ...
Surgeons first to sign up to new green guidelines
November 18, 2022 - The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has become the first medical college in Australia to sign up to the newly released Green College Guidelines. The guidelines, which have been ...
Media Release: Climate Change Performance Index ranks Australia 55
November 15, 2022 - Members of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) are disappointed their country has been ranked 55 in the recent release of the Germanwatch Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). While Australia ...
Media Release: Victorian Government urged to end native forest logging
November 10, 2022 - As the federal government considers joining the global push to halt deforestation by 2030 at COP27 this week, the Victorian government is facing calls at home to end native forest ...
Media Release: Mapping climate change and health into the medical curriculum resource
November 7, 2022 - A new and internationally rare example of student-staff co-development of systematic planetary health and healthcare sustainability curriculum resources for teaching medicine connects the dots between foundational medical learning and the ...
Medicos pressing for greater climate action
November 4, 2022 - “This is a public health crisis….It is really important for the health sector to step up and speak out about it” says Dr Kim Loo. Dr Kim Loo DEA’s NSW ...
Dr David Shearman: Can China lead the way on climate reparations?
October 31, 2022 - Dr David Shearman is co-founder of DEA and Emeritus Professor of medicine at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is co-author of “The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure ...
AMA / DEA Media Release: Impact of climate change on public health recognised in the federal budget
October 26, 2022 - The Australian Medical Association and Doctors for the Environment Australia say the federal government’s budget commitment to establish a National Health Sustainability and Climate Unit is a big win in ...
InSight+: As with tobacco, we must ban fossil fuel advertising
September 26, 2022 - Dr Richard Yin and Dr Carolyn Orr write a powerful call to action for the health sector to ban fossil fuel advertising and promotion in InSight+. As we did with ...
Ditch fracking to protect our health
September 25, 2022 - “It is time we stopped being at the mercy of big business” Dr. Brooke Ah Shay NT News 25 September 2022 THIS week’s news of Origin Energy’s divestment from the ...
Independent Education: responding to students’ climate change concerns
September 21, 2022 - The toll of climate change on school-aged children and young people’s mental health is huge, but often overlooked. And how should schools deal with them? To explore this important issue ...