ABOUT ECOHEALTH

This website was developed as a tool for students and teachers. But it's also a great resource for anyone interested in the environment and human health.

• EcoHealth is rooted in serious science. In fact, it grew out of graduate courses from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Johns Hopkins University.
• Our science team taps the latest research to keep the site up-to-date and accurate. EcoHealth’s Dr. Jonathan Patz has for over a decade been a lead author for the UN IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
• Photos, diagrams, maps, and video clips enhance our coverage of complex topics.
• Links take you to carefully-chosen sites where you can learn more.
• Lesson plans connect these vital topics to national science education standards.
• The news page links today's headlines  to in-depth analysis throughout the site.
• The glossary includes cutting-edge scientific terms and phrases.

TOP NEWS:
Global Warming and Nobel Prize

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to global warming scientists and educators—the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore. Since 1990, the IPCC has been conducting scientific assessments of global warming, and Al Gore has been educating the public.

The latest IPCC report documents that scientists are now 90 percent certain that humans are causing global warming, primarily through burning oil, coal, and gas.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ranks global warming as our greatest environmental health threat.

Learn more at EcoHealth:

• Polar bears may soon be a “Threatened Species.” Arctic ice is melting at unprec- edented rates, threatening the bears’ homes—and us with rising oceans and flooded cities.
  Sea Change: Rising Ocean Levels
• Storms, some as strong as Hurricane Katrina, are more severe due to warming ocean surfaces.
  Storms: Weather Gone Wild
• Malaria and other diseases are spreading to new places.
  Bacteria, Bugs, & Other Problems

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Major funding provided by The Gottesman Fund, The New York Community Trust, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Overbrook Foundation, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine, Wildlife Trust, Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Seed Grant Fund & Center for a Livable Future, and the University of Wisconsin.