Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: Professor, Division of Cardiology, UCLA; Visiting Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 

Synopsis: Natterson-Horowitz was interviewed on the interaction between climate change, ecosystems, and human health.

UCLA News: “Seeing firsthand the similarities between our species and another’s,” she said “was like that gleam of light you see when you crack open a door.” Natterson-Horowitz, who studied evolutionary biology under famed biologists E.O. Wilson and Stephen Jay Gould, said anthropogenic effects — climate, habitat destruction, ecological degradation — are blurring and, in some cases, erasing the lines that once demarcated human and animal environments. It is now widely understood that the adverse health impacts of numerous anthropogenic environmental changes are interconnected — in other words, climate change affects ecological contamination, and vice versa.

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