Foundational Reading

• Lancet Countdown on Climate and Health

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report

• United States Fourth National Climate Assessment

• Climate Change-A Health Emergency.  Solomon C., LaRocque R. N Engl J Med 2019; 380:209-211

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Topic Library

Air Pollution

• Gauderman WJ, Avol E, Gilliland F, et al.  The effect of air pollution on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age. The New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 351(11), 1057–1067.

• Kinney PL.  Climate change, air quality, and human health.  Am J Prev Med.  2008;35(5):459-467.

• Sheffield PE, Knowlton K, Carr JL, Kinney PL.  Modeling of regional climate change efforts on ground-level ozone and childhood asthma.  Am J Prev Med. 2011;41(3):251-257.

• Wu X, Nethery RC, Sabath MB, et al.  Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis.  Science Advances. 2020;6(45).

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Allergy and Immunology

• Albertine JM, Manning WJ, DaCosta M, Stinson KA, Muilenberg ML, Rogers CA.  Projected carbon dioxide to increase grass pollen and allergen exposure despite higher ozone levels.  PLoS One.  2014;9(11):e111712.

• Zhang Y, Bielory L, Mi Z, Cai T, et al.  Allergenic pollen season variations in the past two decades under changing climate in the United States.  Glob Chang Biol.  2015;21(4):1581-1589.

• Ziska L, Knowlton K, Rogers C, et al.  Recent warming by latitude associated with increased length of ragweed pollen season in central North America.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.  2011;108(10):4248-4251.

• Ziska LH, Caulfield FA.  Rising carbon dioxide and pollen production of common ragweed, a known allergy-inducing species: implications for public health.  Aust J Plant Physiol. 2000;27:893-898.

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Built Environment and Nature Contact

• Bikomeye J, Balza J, Beyer K.  The impact of schoolyard greening on children's physical activity and socioemotional health: A systematic review of experimental studies.  Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021;18(2):535.

• Fyfe-Johnson A, Hazlehurst M, Perrins S, et al.  Nature and children's health: A systematic review.  Pediatrics 2021;e2020049155.

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Birth Outcomes

• Bekkar B, Pacheco S, Basu R, DeNicola N.  Association of air pollution and heat exposure with preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth in the US.  JAMA Network Open 2020;3(6):e208243.

• Danysh HE, Zhang K, Mitchell LE, Scheurer ME, Lupo PJ.  Maternal residential proximity to major roadways at delivery and childhood central nervous system tumors.  Environ Res.  2016;146:315-322.

• Kuehn L, McCormick S. Heat exposure and maternal health in the face of climate change. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2017;14:853.

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Climate and Children

• Bole A. Climate change: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.   AAP Voices Blog, April 2020.

• Council on Environmental Health.  Global climate change and children's health.  Pediatrics 2015; 136(5) 992-997.

• Ahdoot S, Pacheco S.  Global climate change and children’s health.  Pediatrics 2015;136(5) e1468-e1484.

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Climate Migration and Conflict

• Hsiang SM, Burke M, Miguel E. Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict.  Science.  2013;341(6151):1235367.

• Lustgarten A. The great climate migration.  The New York Times Magazine 2020.

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Dermatology

• Schachtel A, Dyer J, Boos MD. Climate change and pediatric skin health. Int Jour of Women's Derm 2021, 7(1): 85-90.

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Ecosystem Restoration

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer

• Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy

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Energy and Infrastructure

Carbon Sequestration

• Fuss S, Lamb W, Callaghan M, et al.  Negative emissions—part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects. Environ Research 2018.

• Minx J, Lamb W, Callaghan M, et al. Negative emissions - part 1: Research landscape and synthesis. Environ Research 2018.

• National Research Council. Climate intervention: Carbon dioxide removal and reliable sequestration. The National Academies Press 2015.

• Nemet G, Callaghan M, Creutzig F, et al.  Negative emissions - part 3: Innovation and upscaling. Environ Research 2018.

• Orbuch R. We need to take CO2 out of the sky. Blog post 2020.

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Environmental Justice

• Bekkar B, Pacheco S, Basu R.  Association of air pollution and heat exposure with preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth in the USA.  JAMA Netw Open 2020, 3(6):e208243. 

  • Analysis of the study in NYTimes

• Davies I, Haugo R, Robertson J, Levin P.  The unequal vulnerability of communities of color to wildfire.  PLOS 2018.

• Ragavan M, Marcil L, Garg A.  Climate change as a social determinant of health.  Pediatrics 2020, 145 (5) e20193169.

• Salas R.  Environmental racism and climate change - missed diagnoses.  NEJM 2021. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2109160.

• Thiery W, Lange S, Rogelj J.  Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes.  Science 2021, 10.1126/science.abi7339.

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Fiction

• The Overstory by Richard Powers

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Food Systems

• Lloyd SJ, Kovats RS, Chalabi Z. Climate change, crop yields, and undernutrition: development of a model to quantify the impact of climate scenarios on child undernutrition.  Environ Health Perspect.  2011;119(12:1817-1823.

• Myers S, Zanobetti A, Kloog I, et al. Increased CO2 threatens human nutrition.  Nature. 2014;510(7503):139-142.

• Poore J, Nemecek T.  Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers.  Science 2018, 360 (6392) 987-992.

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Heat

• Basu R, Ostro BD.  A multicounty analysis identifying the populations vulnerable to mortality associated with high ambient temperatures in California.  Am J Epidemiol.  2008;168(6):632-637.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Heat illness among high school athletes-United States, 2005-2009.  MMWR Morb Mortal Wly Rep. 2010;59(32):1009-1013.

• Xu Z, Etzel RA, Su H, Huang C, Guo Y, Tong S.  Impact of ambient temperature on children's health: a systematic review.  Environ Res.  2012;117:120-131.

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Hematology/Oncology

• Benbrahim-Tallas L, Baan RA, Grosse Y, et al.  Carcinogenicity of diesel-engine and gasoline-engine exhausts and some nitroarenes.  Lancet Oncol. 2012;13(7):663-664.

• International Agency for Research on Cancer.  IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Vol. 109.  Outdoor air pollution.  Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer; 2016.

• Kohler LN, Garcia DO, Harris RB, Oren E, et al. Adherence to diet and physical activity cancer prevention guidelines and cancer outcomes: A systematic review. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016;25(7):1018-1028. 

• Raaschou-Nielsen O, Reynolds P.  Air pollution and childhood cancer: a review of the epidemiological literature.  Int J Cancer.  2006;118(12):2920-2929.

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Infectious Disease

• Altizer S, Ostfeld RS, Johnson PT, Kutz S, Harvell CD.  Climate change and infectious diseases: from evidence to predictive framework.  Science. 2013;341(6145):514-519.

• Anyamba A, Small JL, Britch SC, et al.  Recent weather extremes and impacts on agricultural production and vector-bourne disease outbreak patterns.  PLoS One.  2014;9(3):e92538.

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Mental Health Impacts

• Wray, B.  Resources for working with climate emotions.

• Brokamp C, Strawn J, Beck A, Ryan P.  Pediatric psychiatric emergency department utilization and fine particulate matter: A case-crossover study.  Environ Health Perspect. 2019, 127(9).

• Burke S, Sanson A, Van Hoorn J.  The psychological effects of climate change on children.  Current Psychiatry Reports 2018, 20(35).

• Goldmann E, Galea S.  Mental health consequences of disasters.  Annu Rev Public Health.  2014;35:169-183.

• Hansen A, Bi P, Nitschke M, et al. The Effect of Heat Waves on Mental Health in a Temperate Australian City. Environ Health Perspect. 2008;116:1369-1375.

• McLaughlin KA, Fairbank JA, Gruber MJ, et al.  Trends in serious emotional disturbance among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina.  J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry.  2010;49(10):990-1000.

• Miranda DS, Choonara I.  Hurricanes and child health: lessons from Cuba.  Arch Rev Public Health.  2011;96(4):328-329.

• Moore KW, Varela RE.  Correlates of long-term posttraumatic stress symptoms in children following Hurricane Katrina.  Child Psychiatry Hum Dev.  2010;41(2):239-250.

• Stern J.  A mental-health crisis is burning across the American West. The Atlantic, July 2020.

• Thompson R, Hornigold R, Page L, Waite T. Associations between high ambient temperatures and heat waves with mental health outcomes: a systematic review. Public Health. 2018 Aug;161:171-191.

• Wang X, Lavigne E, Ouellette-Kuntz H, Chen BE. Acute impacts of extreme temperature exposure on emergency room admission related to mental and behavior disorders in Toronto, Canada. J Affect Disord. 2014;155:154-161.

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Natural Gas

• Caleb N, Muller K, O'Rourke D, et al.  Methane gas: health, safety, and decarbonization. 2021.

• Casey JA, Savitz DA, Rasmussen SG, et al.  Unconventional natural gas development and birth outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA. Epidemiology 2015.

• Imbler, S. Kill Your Gas Stove. The Atlantic, Oct. 2020.

• McKenzie L, Guo R, Witter RZ, et al.  Birth outcomes and maternal residential proximity to natural gas development in rural Colorado.  Environmental Health Perspectives 2014, 122(4).

• Rasmussen, SG, et al. Association between unconventional natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale and asthma exacerbations.  JAMA Intern Med 2016, 176(9):1334-1343.

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Plant-Based Diets

• Bouvard V, Loomis D, Guyton K, Grosse Y, et al.  Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat. Lancet Oncol. 2015; 16(16).

• Dietrich M, Block G, Pogoda J, Buffler P.  A review: dietary and endogenously formed N-nitroso compounds and risk of childhood brain tumors.  Cancer Causes Control 2005; 16(6):619-635.

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Plastics

• Callahan A.  The types of plastics families should avoid.  The New York Times, Apr. 2020.

• Trasande L, Shaffer RM, Sathyanarayana S, et al.  Food additives and child health.  Pediatrics 2018; 142(2): e20181410.

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Primary Care

• Lewandowski A, Sheffield P, Ahdoot S, et al.  Patients value climate change counseling provided by their pediatrician: The experience in one Wisconsin pediatric clinic.  The Journal of Climate Change and Health 2021; 4: 100053.

• Ragavan M, Marcil L, Philipsborn R, et al.  Parents’ perspectives about discussing climate change during well-child visits.  The Journal of Climate Change and Health 2021; 4: 100048.

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Wildfires

• Aguilera R, Corringham T, Gershunov A, et al.  Fine particles in wildfire smoke and pediatric respiratory health in California.  Pediatrics 2021, e2020027128.

• Doubleday A, Schulte J, Sheppard L, et al.  Mortality associated with wildfire smoke exposure in Washington state, 2006-2017: a case-crossover study. Environ Health 2020, 19(1):4.

• Sengupta S.  Wildfire smoke Is poisoning California’s kids. Some pay a higher price. The New York Times, Nov. 2020.

• Strickland MJ, Darrow LA, Klein M, et al.  Short-term associations between ambient air pollutants and pediatric asthma emergency department visits. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010, 182(3):307-316.

• Xu R, Yu P, Abramson M, et al.  Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health.  N Engl J Med 2020; 383:2173-2181.

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