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Bhutan recognized for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies ahead of World Rabies Day

Naina Rao 29 Sep 2026

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026
Sugi trees at Nikkō Tōshō-gū.

Japan wants to plant no-pollen trees to solve its hay fever crisis

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2026
A team from the nonprofit ASD Monde responding to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC. Image courtesy of ASD Monde.

Polluted waterways and water shortages complicate the fight against Ebola in the DRC

Elodie Toto 26 Aug 2026

Congo’s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet

Associated Press 25 Aug 2026

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
Preparing to enter an Ebola treatment unit during the 2014 outbreak. Image by Athalia Christie via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

As DRC confronts largest Ebola outbreak, health agencies revise strategy

Mongabay.org 12 Aug 2026
Sunset over Maju Forest in Singapore. Image courtesy of Reddit user kcinc82.

Looming loss of Singapore’s Maju Forest to development raises many questions (commentary)

Rachel R. Y. Oh 5 Aug 2026
A worker disinfects himself at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, DRC. Image by Prosper Heri Ngorora.

Ebola responders persevere in the DRC as Uganda nears end of outbreak

Elodie Toto 3 Aug 2026
Croslet horseshoe bat

Study investigates how to prevent viral spread from bat guano in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jul 2026

Heat stress is rising globally, raising health concerns for billions: Study

Patricia Sia Ngevao 27 Jul 2026

Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste

Leandro Barbosa 21 Jul 2026
Medical staff carry an Ebola patient to a treatment center. Image by Moses Sawasawa via Associated Press.

WHO evacuated health workers from Ebola treatment center due to armed clashes

Elodie Toto 20 Jul 2026
A worker disinfects himself at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, DRC. Image by Prosper Heri Ngorora.

Clinical trials begin in DRC epicenter of Bundibugyo strain of Ebola

Prosper Heri Ngorora 8 Jul 2026
A brown skua. Image by Antoine Lamielle via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deadly bird flu strain confirmed in Australia for first time

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jun 2026
Tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus sp) in Madagascar. Photo by Elise Paietta

In one forest, native rats remain. In another, only invaders.

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 May 2026
Tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus sp) in Madagascar. Photo by Elise Paietta

Why forest conservation is also public health

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Apr 2026
A chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is weighed at a live poultry market in West Harlem as a customer stands nearby. The stacking of live animal cages allows bodily waste to drop into the cages below, facilitating disease spread. Image by Cate Twining-Ward.

Avian bird flu surges in New York urban wildlife, increasing disease concerns

Cate Twining-Ward 7 Apr 2026
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Amazon. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Why WHO’s pandemic prevention draft agreement takes a nature-centric, One Health approach (commentary)

Chris Walzer, Susan Lieberman, Christine Franklin 13 May 2025
A member of a Quebequois fire crew assisting on a fire in the Plumas National Forest in northern California in 2020.

The health impacts of escalating megafires are everyone’s problem

Ruth Kamnitzer 1 Jul 2024
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
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Amazon. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

One Health: A necessary blend of biodiversity and human health goals (commentary)

Annie Mark 16 Nov 2020

Healthy ecosystems, healthy humans: ‘One Health’ broadens its scope

John Cannon 7 Nov 2019

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