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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
More than 95% of southern elephant seal pups (Mirounga leonina) born in 2023 perished in that year from the deadly outbreak of avian influenza.

Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of species pole-to-pole

Sharon Guynup 6 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 bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

It’s the bee’s needs: Study finds best plants for bee health, conservation

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024
Farmer Florence Ochieng harvests green maize in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya.

Kenyan farmers turn to WhatsApp & AI tools to combat crop diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 27 Jun 2024

African health experts warn of climate change & rising vector-borne diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 13 May 2024
Acorns on an oak tree.

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought stress & fungus in oaks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 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
Pneumonia in bighorn sheep induces coughing which can be detected acoustically. Image by Noah Israel/Wikimedia Commons.

The potential for tracking wildlife health & disease via bioacoustics is great (commentary)

Jesse Turner 10 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

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 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
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 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

In Argentina, scientists scramble to study seal colonies hit hard by avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2024
Bangkok

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

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jan 2024
A rice farmer

Prevention is best defense against Bangladesh crop diseases, researchers say

Farhana Parvin 15 Jan 2024
Two wild Przewalski’s horses (mares), apparently infatuated with a domestic stallion at a farm in Dytiaku, Ukraine

Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’

Annelise Giseburt 21 Dec 2023
Mona Webber pointing at a mangrove restoration site on Norman Manly Highway.

Jamaica battles relentless plastic pollution in quest to restore mangroves

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Nov 2023
mine peru

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

Dan Collyns 2 Nov 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023
PFAS and other chemical pollution are posing a growing threat to the little auk (Alle alle) and other Arctic seabirds.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study

Sharon Guynup 26 Sep 2023
Katana Ngala in a boat during a coral restoration project.

‘All will be well’: Q&A with Kenyan fisher turned coral gardener Katana Ngala

Anthony Langat 17 Aug 2023

Zika, dengue transmission expected to rise with climate change

Luís Patriani 9 Aug 2023
Ali Garama, the Kuruwitu BMU chairman.

Kenyan fishers put new twists on an age-old marine conservation system

Anthony Langat 9 Aug 2023
Ponkar Lake is a moraine-dammed glacial lake in Bimthang Valley in Manang, Nepal. Image courtesy of Sudan Bikash Maharjan/ICIMOD.

Nepal’s climate change adaptation strategy needs One Health approach (commentary)

Krishna Prasad Acharya, Shamsudeen Fagbo 4 Aug 2023

Prickly babies: A Jamaican nursery aims to restore sea urchins felled by disease

Gladstone Taylor 3 Aug 2023

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