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A window on health adaptations in a changing climate

Nature Medicine volume 31, pages 2460–2464 (2025)Cite this article

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From cool roofs to mental health support, researchers worldwide evaluate the effects of climate adaptations on human health.

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Fig. 1: Hot tin roofs.

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Fig. 2: Cool trees.

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Fig. 3: Climate disasters and mental health.

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  • 21 August 2025

    In the version of the article initially published, “studies on interventions” should have read “studies on mitigation” and the sentence “One of the study authors, Andy Haines, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, believes that the same lack of evaluation is true for interventions too” was missing from the fifth paragraph and has now been added to the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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