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How Is Climate Change Harming Health? Studying That Just Got Harder.

From The New York Times: “With frequent and severe disasters repeatedly underscoring the dangers of climate change, scientists across the country have been working to understand the consequences for our hearts, lungs, brains and more — and how to best mitigate them. The work has relied largely on hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. But since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took charge of H.H.S., the Trump administration has indicated that it will stop funding research on the health effects of climate change. The N.I.H. said in an internal document obtained by The New York Times that it was the agency’s new policy ‘not to prioritize’ research related to climate change.”

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