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Climate Change

Below are useful articles focusing on climate change from a variety of freely accessible peer-reviewed journals.

Public Health
Rise in Temperature

Air Quality


Public Health

Impact of climatic and other environmental changes on food production and population health in the coming decades

Twenty Years of Public Opinion about Global Warming

An Approach for Assessing Human Health Vulnerability and Public Health Interventions to Adapt to Climate Change

Climate Change and Human Health Impacts in the United States: An Update on the Results of the U.S. National Assessment

National Assessment of Human Health Effects of Climate Change in Portugal: Approach and Key Findings

Climate Variability and Change and Their Potential Health Effects in Small Island States: Information for Adaptation Planning in the Health Sector

Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities 

Comparative Risk Assessment of the Burden of Disease from Climate Change

Assessment of Human Health Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change in Cuba

Global Environmental Change: What Can Health Care Providers and the Environmental Health Community Do About It Now?


Rise in Temperature

Scientists Tell Policymakers We're All Warming the World

Using ensemble prediction methods to examine regional climate variation under global warming scenarios

Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildfires?

A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise

Projection of global warming onto regional precipitation over Mongolia using a regional climate

Global warming and fluvial geomorphology

Exposure of global mountain systems to climate warming during the 21st Century

European phonological response to climate change matches the warming pattern

Atmospheric aerosols versus greenhouse gases in the twenty-first century

Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable Change Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee 'Tipping Point' When It Is Too Late to Act (not a peer reviewed journal) 


Recent Climate Observations Compared to Projections


Air Quality

Linking Public Health, Housing, and Indoor Environmental Policy: Successes and Challenges at Local and Federal Agencies in the United States

The Health Protection Act, National Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality and Development of the National Indoor Air Programs in Finland

Tracking Pediatric Asthma: The Massachusetts Experience Using School Health Records

Improving Indoor Environmental Quality for Public Health: Impediments and Policy Recommendations 

Childhood Asthma and Environmental Interventions

Assessment of Personal and Community-Level Exposures to Particulate Matter among Children with Asthma in Detroit, Michigan, as Part of Community Action Against Asthma (CAAA)

Populations and Determinants of Airborne Fungi in Large Office Buildings

Current State of the Science: Health Effects and Indoor Environmental Quality

Ozone's Impact on Public Health: Contributions from Indoor Exposures to Ozone and Products of Ozone-Initiated Chemistry

Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Public Health Impact on Populations in the Northeastern United States

Air Quality in Postunification Erfurt, East Germany: Associating Changes in Pollutant Concentrations with Changes in Emissions

Separate and Unequal: Residential Segregation and Estimated Cancer Risks Associated with Ambient Air Toxics in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

A Case-Crossover Study of Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Onset of Congestive Heart Failure Symptom Exacerbation Leading to Hospitalization

TI: The Potential Benefit of Current and Planned Anthropogenic Emission Reductions on Mid- Atlantic United States Air Quality 


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