A federal working group report released last week highlights 11 categories of diseases and other health consequences — from asthma and cancer to neurological and stress-related disorders — linked to climate change. “This white paper articulates, in a concrete way, that human beings are vulnerable in many ways to the health effects of climate change,” said Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program, whose institute led the interagency effort.