ENN: Healthy planet, places and people at risk

Australians face increasingly large-scale health risks from our expanding impact on the natural environment, ranging from increases in weather extremes and dengue fever to obesity, diabetes and mental health.

Twelve of Australia’s top health and medical researchers have contributed to a new report which concludes that rapid environmental and climatic changes pose increasing risks to the health of Australians.

Released today by Research Australia, the ‘Healthy Planet, Places and People’ Report found that:

- Deaths from heart attacks, strokes and respiratory disease, from increases in heatwaves, could double or triple by 2050;

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