May 26, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) welcomes the Victorian Government’s decision to end native forest logging by January next year- six years ahead of schedule. Victorian DEA Chair Dr ...
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MJAInsight: Doctors must ‘step up’ to confront climate crisis
May 1, 2023 - When the Australian Parliament recently passed the Safeguard Mechanism- the country’s most significant carbon emissions reduction legislation in over a decade- where was the health voice in the debate? DEA’s ...
AMA and DEA sign crucial partnership to lead action on climate change
April 28, 2023 - Doctors for the Environment Australia is thrilled to renew its partnership with the AMA to address the severe health impacts of climate change. Today, AMA President Prof Steve Robson and ...
MJA: Why losing Australia’s biodiversity matters for human health- insights from the latest State of the Environment assessment
April 17, 2023 - Only with a healthy planet can we ensure healthy people. Yet while there is increasing understanding about the effects of climate change on our environment and our health, much less ...
Pearls & Irritations: Do universities with medical schools fail on fossil fuels?
March 29, 2023 - Universities have expertise in research and teaching in areas that are relevant to understanding global warming: geology, physics, mathematics, biology, oceanography, engineering, and atmospheric physics. Furthermore, those universities with medical ...
DEA’s response to the IPCC report
March 22, 2023 - The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report highlights the narrow window of opportunity that we now have for humanity to secure a liveable future, with deep emission cuts ...
‘Difference between life and death’: Doctors sound alarm on western Sydney’s lack of trees
March 6, 2023 - A group of doctors has issued a dire health warning about the lack of trees Western Sydney reports 9News. Doctors for the Environment Australia member Dr Cybele Dey said “People ...
Launch of joint DEA and WWF-A report: Trees. The forgotten heroes for our health
March 6, 2023 - Dr Cybele Dey, Dr Stuart Blanch, and Dr Kim Loo have launched a joint DEA/WWF-Australia report on the health benefits of trees. We all need trees. They’re not only magnificent, ...
Major new report: Vehicle emissions may cause over 11,000 deaths a year
February 24, 2023 - New estimates by Melbourne Climate Futures researchers shows that health impacts from vehicle emissions are likely to be far higher than previous figures informing policy decisions. A broad group of ...
Introducing DEA’s new Chair: Dr Kate Wylie
February 6, 2023 - It is my great pleasure to announce that I am the new Chairperson of the Board for DEA. I am humbled and honoured to have been granted this opportunity and ...
Washington Post: Long-term exposure to pollution linked to depression, study finds
February 6, 2023 - Potential links between pollution and mental health are a serious issue, said Dr Cybele Dey, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and member of Doctors for the Environment Australia, in the ...
ABC: A greener view
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% ...
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. ...