Climate: More people died from hot or cold weather conditions than COVID in parts of UK

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Research has highlighted how weather extremes worsened by climate change are now a major national public health threat.  The study, led by the University of Bristol and published today in Nature Communications, showed how the death toll from temperature hazards overtook the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the South West region of England, when the […]

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How good weather did nothing to lift spirits in lockdown

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Come rain or shine, the weather did nothing to ease or worsen the mental health consequences of Covid-19 – according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex. The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic saw more people suffer mental health problems in the UK. But a new study […]

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Chronic pain: Mapping the weather patterns

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A new mass study of people living with chronic pain in the UK has demonstrated the links between pain and certain atmospheric weather conditions. Weather systems in the UK could cause chronic pain suffers to experience more or less pain on certain days as a result of certain pressure patterns and accompanying rain, humidity, and […]

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