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Climate Change Linked Increased Suicide in Australia
2014-02-19 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Suicide rates in Australia increase with prolonged temperature increases, according to Xin Qi, a researcher from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, who suggests that climate change will result in increased suicide rates. As part of his Ph.D. research, Qi and his collaborators analyzed the socioenvironmental drivers of suicide rates in Australia over the last two decades, finding that variations in temperature, paired with spikes in unemployment, had a correlation to increased instances...
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