Climate change and human health

Climate change doesn’t just threaten the environment but also adversely affects human health. This week on Global Ideas, reporter Markus Reher takes us to Kyrgyzstan to show us how global warming has affected hospitals there and how the local population is coping. Finding the right adaptation strategies is also the focus of our in-depth article by Wiebke Feuersenger. Extremely hot weather is becoming increasingly common but adapting to extreme heat is anything but easy for the human body.