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Kidney specialist warns climate change is killing hundreds of thousands
Original: Climate change is killing hundreds of thousands – a kidney specialist’s concerns https:// theconversation.com/climate-ch
A kidney specialist has argued that climate change is already causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, highlighting the growing health toll of extreme heat and related conditions on kidneys in particular. Writing in The Conversation, the physician frames global warming as a direct medical emergency, not just an environmental problem, drawing attention to heat stress and dehydration-driven kidney disease among workers and vulnerable populations.
Why now: Extreme heat events and mounting research linking climate change to kidney disease have renewed attention on the health impacts of global warming.
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- Climate change is killing hundreds of thousands – a kidney specialist’s concerns https:// theconversation.com/climate-ch ange-is-killing-hundreds-of-thousands-a-kidney-specialists-concerns-295393?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon # ClimateChange · TheConversationClimate@newsie.social · 5
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