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A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024
Blast furnace in Duisburg, Germany.

Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2024
Gold mining erodes land cover in Pahuwato.

25-fold surge in malaria at Indonesia gold frontier raises deforestation questions

Zulkifli Mangkau 16 Sep 2024
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Climate change threatens public health, raising the spread of food-borne diseases

Leocadia Bongben 15 Aug 2024
Patients from riverside communities along the Rio Negro, in Brazil's Amazonas, once again receiving care after two months of absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Polycrisis’ threatens planetary health; UN calls for innovative solutions

Sean Mowbray 8 Aug 2024

As climate change shakes up global map of venomous snakes, health risks abound

Suzana Camargo 5 Aug 2024
An Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species that carries dengue.

In the wake of Bangladesh’s deadliest dengue outbreak, researchers respond

Hailey Smalley 2 Aug 2024
A coyote in Chicago. Image courtesy of Cook County Coyote Project.

Animal welfare advocacy must include wildlife & invertebrates (commentary)

Zoe Newton 24 Jul 2024

Ugandan chimps are eating bat guano, raising concerns over human epidemics

Juliette Portala 15 Jul 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024

Warming climate threatens to worsen air quality in already polluted Kathmandu

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Apr 2024
Muhammad Erlangga, a student, washes his clothes with rainwater.

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Suryadi 11 Apr 2024
People watch a forest fire in Kratié Province, Cambodia.

Research links deforestation in Cambodia to stunting in kids, anemia in women

Anton L. Delgado 11 Apr 2024
A farmer in a rice field.

Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024
A farmer spraying pesticides in a rice field.

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Alden Wicker 4 Mar 2024
African elephants

Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health

Carolyn Cowan 9 Feb 2024
A nomadic community preparing a meal in Ladakh, India.

‘Healthy humans without a healthy planet is a logical fallacy’: Interview with Dr. Sakib Burza

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 6 Feb 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian utility PLN ordered to disclose coal plants’ emissions data

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2024
Bangkok

Civil-backed proposal seeks to address root causes of Thailand’s choking haze

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2024
Fire and deforestation in the Amacro region (the states of Amazonas, Acre and Rondônia) in the Brazilian Amazon in late August 2022. Photo © Nilmar Lage / Greenpeace

Amazonia in flames: Unlearned lessons from the 2023 Manaus smoke crisis (commentary)

Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside 17 Jan 2024

U.S. mining companies leave lasting trail of contamination across Peru

Roberth Orihuela 10 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024
Throwaway single-use plastic trash at a festival in Germany.

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics

Charles Pekow 22 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023
mine peru

Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

Dan Collyns 2 Nov 2023
Villagers of Muanda.

Oil firm Perenco eyes new blocks in DRC amid criticism of its track record

Elodie Toto 24 Oct 2023
Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts.

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Claire Asher 9 Oct 2023

Indonesian children locked out of school as El Niño haze chokes parts of Sumatra & Kalimantan

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Oct 2023

Zika, dengue transmission expected to rise with climate change

Luís Patriani 9 Aug 2023

International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2023

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