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Fossil Fuels, Climate Change & Human Health - The Research
Research published by medical and health publications and from local news sources around the world. Topics include all areas related to medicine and public health impacted by climate change and fossil fuels. Search by topic. Updated regularly. Links to original source.
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Structural birth defects and exposure to oil and gas wells during pregnancy
Congential anomolies including cardiac and circulatory defects associated with exposure to oil and gas development
Chikungunya: Excruciating disease previously contained to tropics, now spreading into Europe due to rising global temperatures
Report: Fueling Sickness – The Hidden Health Costs of Fossil Fuel Pollution (2025)
2025 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown on Climate and Health: Comprehensive Findings from Across the World
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Climate Change: “Governments Should Pay Attention to Greenhouse Gas Emissions”
“From Cradle to Grave” – Every phase of the fossil fuel production lifecycle linked to systemic human health harms: GCHA report (2025)
India: Research team reveals severe impacts on public health and healthcare delivery from record heat extremes; millions impacted.
U.S.: 91,000 deaths, 1,610 cancers, annually, attributed to oil and gas pollutants; black and asian populations suffer disproportionately
Japan: 10,000 Hospitalized, 16 deaths from heatstroke, other heat-related causes in record heatwave across 14 Prefectures
PM2 accounts for 27% of newborn deaths worldwide, mainly in poor regions (2025)
Global cardiovascular disease disproportionate burdens attributed to PM (fossil fuel) pollution 1990-2021, forecast to 2045 (2025)
Extreme Heat Impairs Immune System, Increases Inflammation (2024)
Cardiovascular Disease and Fossil Fuel Combustion (2022)
Climate Change and Eye Diseases (2025)
Anthropogenic Climate Change Contributes to Wildfire PM2 Mortality, Causing Thousands of Additional PM2 Deaths (2025)
Rising Global Temperatures Threaten a “Five-fold Increase” in Dengue and Other Vector-borne Diseases (2025)
Emergence of Unprecedented Lifetime Exposure to Climate Extremes (2025)
Fossil Fuel Aromatics and Breast Cancer: Links Established as Cases Increase in Younger Women (2025)
Climate Change Increasing Pregnancy Risks Around the World due to Extreme Heat (2025)
Climate Change Threatens the Blood Supply Chain – The Lancet (2025)
Half of Known Human Pathogenic Disease Exacerbated by Climate Change (2022)
Children Living Near Fracking Sites Two to Three Times More Likely to be Diagnosed with Leukemia – YALE (2022)
Climate Change Will Increase Arsenic Levels in Rice – The Lancet (2025)
Oreskes, Bullard et.al., on Systemic Global Health Risks of Fossil Fuels (2025)
Louisiana’s “Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone”: Low Income Communities Suffer Highest Cancer Rates in the U.S. (2024)
Pakistan: Millions breathe toxic emissions “20 times above safety levels” due to a lack of fossil fuel emission regulations (2025)
Cancer and Proximity to Oil Refineries
BIrth Outcomes and Proximity to Oil, Gas Development: Cohort Study
Nigeria: Human Health Implications of 240,000 barrels of crude spilled every year.
Pakistan and Climate Change: Waterborne Disease Overwhelms Hospitals, Killing Hundreds
21 Million People Displaced by Climate-Related Hazards in Past Decade (2022)
Climate Change Increasing Hospital Evacuations
Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat: Impacts on Maternal and Infant Health
Extreme Heat and Severe Maternal Morbidity
Fossil Fuel PM2 Exposure and Psychiatric Emergencies
Climate Change and Vectorborne Disease
Fossil Fuel Use and Health Implications in Nigeria
Millions at Heightened Cancer Risk from Oil and Gas Air Pollution
Climate Change and Disorders of the Nervous System
Malaria and Climate Change
Fossil Fuel Production on Louisiana’s Coast: Cancer Alley
Diabetes and Climate Change
Cardiovascular Disease and Fossil Fuels
Oil Production and Environmental Destruction in Nigeria
Fracking and Pediatric Leukemia
Climate Change Costs To Healthcare
Attributing human mortality (1,200) from PM2 exposure to climate change
Climate Change and Global Cancer Disparities
Climate Changes Allergies and Asthma
Long-term trends in urban NO2 concentrations and associated paediatric asthma incidence: estimates from global datasets
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