Awareness that many aspects of public health are influenced by climate is growing dramatically. Results presented at the Wengen conference make clear that the s

This publication, prepared jointly by the WHO, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, considers the public health c

El Nino has been with us for centuries, but now we can forcast it, and thus can prepare far in advance for the extreme climatic events it brings. The emerging a

We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their environment. It is in our collective interest to observe and unde

Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's techn