SARAH BOSELEY

Senior doctors in the U.K. recently published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever spreading more easily.
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Global warming is the biggest global health threat in the 21st century, says a new research. Researchers have claimed climate change will worsen virtually every known health problem

LUCKNOW: The issues concerning climate change and environmental hazards will be presented in a new light of knowledge by at least 100 researchers from across the world at the department of geology, Lucknow University (LU).

Exposure to natural background radiation is an average 2.4 milliGray per year (milliGray or mGy is the unit for measuring radiation dose received per kg of body mass) and is often greater than exposure to human-caused radiation (0.01 mGy per year from nuclear weapons testing, accidents and operations combined) and the average exposure from medical procedures (0.04-1 mGy per year). In Kerala,