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Drought in Bangladesh.

Global warming hits hardest for those who can’t escape it

John Cannon 24 Apr 2025

‘Plastic People’ documentary exposes the human health threats from plastic 

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2025
Banana crop in Uganda.

Ground-level ozone pollution poses growing threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 2 Apr 2025
Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in Lake Chinchaycocha in Junín, Peru.

Drowned lands and poisoned waters threaten Peru’s campesinos and their livestock

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2025
Banner image of people on a Sydney beach on a hot summer day. Image by Neerav Bhatt via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Hotter weather threatens heart health, Australian study warns

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
Plastic People film poster.

Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2025
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).

Breast milk contamination exposes Africa’s ‘forever chemicals’ problem

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Mar 2025
Banner image of a yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Dry season predictability and temperature drive dengue cases: Study

Kristine Sabillo 10 Mar 2025
According to a new report by Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), Cobra Panamá’s tailings dam is at a very serious and imminent risk of failure due to poor monitoring and internal erosion. Image courtesy of the Environmental Advocacy Center (CIAM).

Yet another abandoned mine erodes — this time, in a Panamanian protected area

Aimee Gabay 25 Feb 2025

Short-term air pollution exposure impairs focus & cognitive function: Study

Bobby Bascomb 17 Feb 2025
Banner image of a rainforest in Borneo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Science aside, we need art & philosophy for global change: Epidemiologist

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2025
A black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) feeding on a palm tree in Brisbane, Australia.

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Feb 2025

Tourists are back at this Instaworthy Philippine town, but can its sewage system keep up?

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Feb 2025

A dramatic rise in microplastics found in human brains, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 7 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

Disease surges in Indonesia community on frontline of world energy transition

Rabul Sawal 6 Feb 2025

LA wildfires release toxic chemicals that threaten wildlife, experts say

Bobby Bascomb 28 Jan 2025

Surviving fire but not the toxins as modern homes, full of plastic, burn

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur, Orji Sunday, Karla Mendes 13 Jan 2025

U.S. reports first human death from H5N1 bird flu

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025
A shipbreaking yard.

Shipbreaking pollutes Türkiye’s coast despite European cleanup efforts

Lyse Mauvais, Wouter Massink 17 Dec 2024

Wildlife and humans face shared health risks from plastic pollution

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2024
Banner image of civil society groups protesting at the INC-5 meeting in Busan, South Korea. Image courtesy of Seunghyeok Choi/Break Free From Plastic.

No deal to curb plastic production as latest negotiations fizzle

Kristine Sabillo 2 Dec 2024

Researchers find high levels of mercury in Amazon’s Madeira River water & fish

Kevin Damasio 27 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

Biden administration doesn’t support a cap on plastic production

Bobby Bascomb 22 Nov 2024

Elephant seal colonies in Argentina face long recovery after ‘catastrophic’ avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 22 Nov 2024
People walk in heavy rains in Dhaka.

Studies link stronger dengue outbreak in Bangladesh to climate change

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 22 Nov 2024
Fishers catch fish in a net in their aquaculture enclosure.

Overuse of antibiotics in Bangladesh aquaculture raises health concerns

Masum Billah 21 Nov 2024
Workers sort through discared plastic in Bangladesh.

The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

Alden Wicker 19 Nov 2024

Locals in a Brazilian valley report health issues after arrival of lithium mine

Caio Guatelli 18 Nov 2024
DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women

DRC mines might be poisoning pregnant women

Denise Maheho, Didier Makal 18 Nov 2024

Cobalt mining for green energy risks women’s reproductive health in DRC

Didier Makal, Denise Mahelo 18 Nov 2024

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