Elsevier, The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, 100447
Earth's climate is warming at an unprecedented rate, resulting in one of the greatest public health threats of the twenty-first century. The changing climate creates direct and indirect impacts that threaten human health, from heat waves increasing cardiovascular disease to extreme weather events leading to displacement. Though climate change impacts everyone, it disproportionately harms under-resourced communities, communities of color, and the Global South, thereby exacerbating existing inequities.