This doctor dad and teen want you to know climate change already harms health
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(Brandie Weikle/ CBC News) — Sadie Vipond was just seven years old when she first experienced the negative effects of extreme weather, the kind expected to happen more often with climate change.

Her Calgary neighbourhood was evacuated because of severe flooding in 2013, the most destructive in Alberta’s history.  …

Healthcare must count costs of climate-driven mental illness and eco distress
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(Justine Alford, Simon Levey/ Imperial College News) — Suicides, heatwave deaths for mentally ill, increased care needs and eco-anxiety among the uncounted costs of climate change, says a new expert report. Climate change and mental health are two of the most significant and pressing challenges facing societies across  …