Climate change damages the immune system: according to an international study with Swiss participation, global warming, air pollution and a decline in biodiversity are increasing health problems such as asthma, allergies and cancer.

“Climate change poses an existential threat to human, animal and ecosystem health,” write the scientists who participated in the study published in the journal Frontiers in Science. The pool brings together scientists from around thirty institutes in different countries, including the Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research in Davos and the Center for Allergy Research and Education, also in Davos. (More on laregione.ch)