Climate change is already harming the health of people around the world and it will only get worse without intervention, according to a new report co-authored by University of Colorado Boulder faculty. With contributions from 120 experts at 35 institutions around the world, the 2019 Lancet Countdown report paints a grim picture of what the world will look like without a drastic change in the consumption of fossil fuels. Though the consequences of climate change — including disease outbreak, air pollution, wildfire risk, heat exposure and food and water insecurity — impact all age groups, children and the elderly are the most vulnerable to dying because of those impacts, according to the report. Read more about JPB Fellow Reid.