Injuries and Deaths Could Rise with Climate Change in the U.S., a New Study Finds
Floodwater covers Highway 2 near Sidney. Iowa on March 23, 2019.
Researchers have also found that intentional injuries like suicide or assault rise during extreme temperatures. One 2018 study discovered that suicide rates in the U.S. and Mexico increased by 0.7% and 2.1% respectively for each 1 °C rise in temperatures over monthly averages . Experts currently cannot explain why there is a correlation between extreme temperatures and increased intentional injuries, but believe the evidence illuminates the mental health dimensions of climate change. Robbie Parks, an environmental epidemiologist at Imperial College London, and the lead author of the study, toldthat it “highlights how important mental health is as a hidden burden of not just climate change, but environmental exposures in general.
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