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Environmental Health
Why Biopesticides Must Replace Chemicals
Recent studies and evidence from around the world are sounding a clear alarm that continued dependence on chemical pesticides in...
Focusing on vulnerable groups and promoting participation, keys to promoting health equity in climate policies – PAHO/WHO
The fourth session of the Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate and Health organized by PAHO and WHO-Europe addressed how to orient...
Environmental Solutions for a Sustainable Future
We’re seeing growing awareness around sustainability, along with heightened public concern for environmental health. This is putting increasing pressure on...
The world’s children suffer brunt of wildfire smoke health impacts
Around 270,000 children under the age of 5 die every year from breathing wildfire smoke, with 99% of these...
A Growing Demand for Population Health and Well-Being Through Agriculture
When Francisco Soto Mas, MD, PhD, MPH, a professor and researcher at The University of New Mexico College of Population...
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): The forgotten “Forever Chemicals”
PCB production has been banned for 4 decades, so why are these forever chemicals resurfacing as contemporary contaminants of significant...
New report finds endocrine disrupting chemical in more than one-third of tested Indian clothing products
What’s new: A new report has found the cancer-linked endocrine disruptor, nonylphenol (NP), in one-third of tested Indian clothing products...
Researchers alarmed after discovering previously overlooked health impacts of wildfires: ‘We haven’t understood how’
The fact that smoke produced by structure fires and wildfires can harm the immune system is not new. But now,...
