Met Office to examine health impacts of climate change

Jessica Shankleman
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Major new research project aims to help Brits adapt to and mitigate climate change risks

The Met Office has announced is to work on a major new project designed to understand how climate change could impact on human health and asses the large scale economic and infrastructure changes that...

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