Waters rising

An iceberg no more: rising waters of chronic vascular disease.

The iceberg once seemed the perfect image to represent the global dilemma of vascular diseases: the apex of heart disease, stroke and chronic kidney disease was visible over the horizon's edge, with the bloated and often under-diagnosed epidemics of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and common risk factors lurking in the depths below. The iceberg also floated in colder waters, a handy metaphor f...

The Mineral Waters and Health Resorts of Europe

Rising Waters and a Smaller Island: What Should Physicians Do for Tuvaluans?

Residents of the island nation of Tuvalu will be among the first of the 1.7 million Pacific Islanders to be displaced by the effects of climate change (including rising sea levels, changing distributions of agriculture, and unpredictable weather patterns). Already 3,500 Tuvaluans live in New Zealand (approximately 25 percent of the world's Tuvaluan population), some of whom moved due to climate...

The rising cost of warming waters: effects of temperature on the cost of swimming in fishes.

Understanding the effects of water temperature on the swimming performance of fishes is central in understanding how fish species will respond to global climate change. Metabolic cost of transport (COT)-a measure of the energy required to swim a given distance-is a key performance parameter linked to many aspects of fish life history. We develop a quantitative model to predict the effect of wat...

Opal Waters, Rising Seas: How Sociocultural Inequality Reduces Resilience to Climate Change among Indigenous Australians

W continental ice sheets melted about 15,000 years ago, rising seas inundated large regions of northern Australia, fl ooding valleys and creating vast, low-lying wetland areas. More recent transitions in some of these regions occurred as gradual siltation and levée formation reduced the movement of salt water to create freshwater swamps that were regularly fi lled by monsoon rains, a process th...