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An artisanal miner carries raw ore at Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 11, 2016.

Protecting Miners' Health in Democratic Republic of Congo

by Jonta Kamara, Stephanie Bumba

Growing evidence reveals mining harms pregnancies, and basic medicine near the sites is often inaccessible

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an activist holds up fake currency bills

COP29: The Health Expenses of Climate Change

by Anita Makri

Does a failure to focus on health economic losses stand opposed to stronger action at the UN summit and beyond?

Zapotec woman washes her hands during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oaxaca state, Mexico, on March 31, 2020.
Environment

Remembering Paul Simon's Water for the World Act

REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Environment

How Medical Education Is Adapting to Climate Change

by Mira Cheng

Educational initiatives are sprouting to help doctors and nurses confront the health threats created by climate change

Visual projections of eagles are displayed at the Al Wasl dome at the Dubai's Expo City during the United Nations COP28, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on December 12, 2023.
Environment

At COP28, the Climate-Health Nexus Turned a Corner, for Better and Worse

by David P. Fidler

Health got more attention, a change that magnifies the unprecedented dangers an unprepared world faces

Flames reach upwards along the edge of a wildfire as seen from a Canadian Forces helicopter surveying the area near Mistissini, Quebec, Canada June 12, 2023.
Urbanization

Connecting the Dots Between Climate and Air Quality

by Angel Hsu

Connecting the dots between climate and air quality

View of a COP27 sign on the road leading to the conference area in Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh as the city prepares to host the COP27 climate summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on October 20, 2022.
Environment

Protecting Mental Health in the Era of a Warming Planet

by Renzo R. Guinto, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta

It's often forgotten that mental health is influenced by climate change

A Russian soldier in a camouflage uniform bearing the Russian flag and a cloth face covering stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant whose towers stand surrounded by a fog and a barbed wire against a blue sky.
Governance

Russian Roulette at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

by Lillian Posner

How Russia's militarization of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant threatens human health

A female delegate wearing a long sleeved black dress a blue surgical mask looks at a 30-foot sculpture made out of plastic bottles resembling a faucet, outside the UN Environment Programme Headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya
Environment

The Emerging Health Crisis of Microplastic Debris

by Dick Vethaak, Concepción Martínez-Gómez

Microplastics are everywhere, including our bodies

A brown bird with a pale chest stands in a foam patch of polluted water in Santa Monica, California, on March 23, 2021.
Environment

Plastics Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg

by Matthew Savoca

Living in a world swimming in synthetic chemicals

A close up image of a field of winter wheat growing outside Bashtanka, in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, on June 9, 2022
Food

Seeds: An Unlikely Casualty of the War in Ukraine

How history—and future crops—were lost when Russia attacked a scientific warehouse for valuable plants and seeds

A farmer burns a sugar cane field at night as local growers try to avoid arrest by authorities who banned on the practice to curb smog in Suphan Buri province, Thailand, on January 20, 2020.
Environment

The Tangled Problem of Sugarcane Burning in Thailand

by Danny Marks

Agricultural burning is causing dangerously high air pollution levels, but stopping it is complicated

smog in russia
Environment

Smoggy Cities

by Haydn Welch

Ghostly images of some of the world's most polluted metropolises

People carry a sign as they attend a protest during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 6, 2021.
Environment

Nature's Unprecedented Role at the Glasgow UN Climate Summit

by Shyla Raghav

Multi-stakeholder collaboration on natural climate solutions can transform climate action