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The 2024 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, an annual international assessment of progress toward the climate mitigation goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement — co-authored this year by three members of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health — contains some of the most dire projections to date associated with persistent global inaction over the pressing climate emergency.

According to a new study by researchers from the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, short-term exposure to high ambient temperatures may significantly increase the risk of stroke among people aged 18 to 64 years, especially women.

Every year, more than 11,000 deaths in the U.S. could be attributed to wildfire smoke because it contains fine particulate matter (PM2.5), according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

Pollutants from fires can travel great distances and have the potential to affect human health thousands of kilometers away. In a new study, researchers from the Yale School of Public Health investigated whether long-term exposure to fine particles in wildfire smoke was associated with increases in causes of death.

In addition to a fire's deadly flames, wildfire smoke is a threat to lives and health. Here's how to stay safe, from Yale School of Public Health experts.

Extreme heat is hazardous to your health. Here are ways to stay safe as the globe warms.

By the end of this decade, 10.8 million Californians — or one-quarter of the state’s population — will be over 60 years old. That could change the way the state prepares for rising temperatures. YSPH Associate Professor Kai Chen discusses his latest research.

U.S. laws have reduced ground-level ozone since the 1970s, but scientists warn that rising temperatures will fuel more of the gas and stall pollution reduction.