India, March 10 -- How do you tend to a farmer whose kidneys have shrivelled up as his body endured punishing heatwaves and lack of clean water, making him a lifelong patient? Or a young adult who comes in breathless with no history of asthma? Our brains may deny climate change, but our bodies know and show how climate change is altering us by way of disease. Climate change is no longer just about extreme disasters like wildfires, glaciers, or species extinction, but our bodies that labour for breath through the year.

In 2017, the late American physician Paul Auerbach and Jay Lemery, an ER specialist and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, wrote Enviromedics. The book recognized the field o...