Insurers' disaster files suggest climate is culprit

Meat-eating: The Second Main Culprit of Climate Change

Background: Due to the greenhouse gases emission caused by human activities there is wide agreement about global warming. Methane is one of the most dangerous greenhouse gases in the global warming process which is produced through human activities and natural processes. In addition, the use of fertilizers and chemical pesticides would produce nitrogen monoxide in the atmosphere. This gas is an...

Where is the culprit?

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Şükrü Akyüz, Tıbbıye Cad. No: 23, Siyami Ersek Göğüs ve Kalp Damar Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İstanbul-Türkiye Phone: +90 532 340 74 72 Fax: +90 216 444 52 57 E-mail: [email protected] Available Online Date: 09.04.2015 ©Copyright 2015 by Turkish Society of Cardiology Available online at www.anatoljcardiol.com DOI:10.5152/akd.2015.6241 Diagnosti...

Climate change and disaster management.

Climate change, although a natural phenomenon, is accelerated by human activities. Disaster policy response to climate change is dependent on a number of factors, such as readiness to accept the reality of climate change, institutions and capacity, as well as willingness to embed climate change risk assessment and management in development strategies. These conditions do not yet exist universal...

Coping with climate change risks and opportunities for insurers

Which is the culprit artery?

A 59-year-old woman had been treated at another hospital for unstable angina for 5 days. One day after discharge , she returned with prolonged chest pain, and an electrocardiogram was recorded (Figure 1). The most notable features of the electrocardiogram are ST and T changes in leads V 1 through V 4. Superficially, these changes suggest a left anterior descending lesion with anterior subendoca...