Disappearing Green: The Silent Struggle for Clean Air in Nairobi 09/09/2025 Nancy Kalii NAIROBI, Kenya – The sun beats down on Tom Mboya Street, where buses belch black smoke into the air and vendors shout amid the constant honking of matatus (minibus taxis). The air is already thick with smoke before midday. In the midst of this stands James Muro, a fruit seller whose workday is measured in […] Continue reading -> Wildfires Were A Major Contributor to Air Pollution in 2024 – Highlighting ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Warming 06/09/2025 Disha Shetty China saw a decline in overall levels of health-harmful particulate pollution (PM 2.5) in 2024 as compared to 2023 thanks to ardent mitigation efforts of leading pollution sources. But India remained a global air pollution hotspot, while wildfire activity led to above average PM 2.5 levels in Canada, Siberia and central Africa, according to the […] Continue reading -> India’s Air Quality Index Improves But Delhi Remains World’s Worst Polluted City 28/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji The eighth AQLI report released on Thursday, establishes a global warming link to air pollution – surprisingly in the United States and Canada. However, the global air pollution hotspot remains in South Asia. NEW DELHI – The latest data is out on how much air pollution is estimated to shorten lives, and New Delhi tops […] Continue reading -> More Evidence That Air Pollution is Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia 20/08/2025 Disha Shetty Air pollution, specifically the tiny particles known as PM2.5, is linked to higher rates of dementia, according to a recently published study in The Lancet. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and black carbon, which is the black soot left behind when combustion is incomplete, have also been linked to higher risk of dementia in the study, which […] Continue reading -> ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Will Pesticides Break MAHA’s Alliance with Trump? 13/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan The Trump administration’s approach to pesticides could determine whether it continues to enjoy the support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Key MAHA leaders, including the leaders of Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him not to support “broad […] Continue reading -> ‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds 04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading -> Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Wildfires Were A Major Contributor to Air Pollution in 2024 – Highlighting ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Warming 06/09/2025 Disha Shetty China saw a decline in overall levels of health-harmful particulate pollution (PM 2.5) in 2024 as compared to 2023 thanks to ardent mitigation efforts of leading pollution sources. But India remained a global air pollution hotspot, while wildfire activity led to above average PM 2.5 levels in Canada, Siberia and central Africa, according to the […] Continue reading -> India’s Air Quality Index Improves But Delhi Remains World’s Worst Polluted City 28/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji The eighth AQLI report released on Thursday, establishes a global warming link to air pollution – surprisingly in the United States and Canada. However, the global air pollution hotspot remains in South Asia. NEW DELHI – The latest data is out on how much air pollution is estimated to shorten lives, and New Delhi tops […] Continue reading -> More Evidence That Air Pollution is Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia 20/08/2025 Disha Shetty Air pollution, specifically the tiny particles known as PM2.5, is linked to higher rates of dementia, according to a recently published study in The Lancet. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and black carbon, which is the black soot left behind when combustion is incomplete, have also been linked to higher risk of dementia in the study, which […] Continue reading -> ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Will Pesticides Break MAHA’s Alliance with Trump? 13/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan The Trump administration’s approach to pesticides could determine whether it continues to enjoy the support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Key MAHA leaders, including the leaders of Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him not to support “broad […] Continue reading -> ‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds 04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading -> Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
India’s Air Quality Index Improves But Delhi Remains World’s Worst Polluted City 28/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji The eighth AQLI report released on Thursday, establishes a global warming link to air pollution – surprisingly in the United States and Canada. However, the global air pollution hotspot remains in South Asia. NEW DELHI – The latest data is out on how much air pollution is estimated to shorten lives, and New Delhi tops […] Continue reading -> More Evidence That Air Pollution is Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia 20/08/2025 Disha Shetty Air pollution, specifically the tiny particles known as PM2.5, is linked to higher rates of dementia, according to a recently published study in The Lancet. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and black carbon, which is the black soot left behind when combustion is incomplete, have also been linked to higher risk of dementia in the study, which […] Continue reading -> ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Will Pesticides Break MAHA’s Alliance with Trump? 13/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan The Trump administration’s approach to pesticides could determine whether it continues to enjoy the support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Key MAHA leaders, including the leaders of Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him not to support “broad […] Continue reading -> ‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds 04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading -> Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
More Evidence That Air Pollution is Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia 20/08/2025 Disha Shetty Air pollution, specifically the tiny particles known as PM2.5, is linked to higher rates of dementia, according to a recently published study in The Lancet. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and black carbon, which is the black soot left behind when combustion is incomplete, have also been linked to higher risk of dementia in the study, which […] Continue reading -> ‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Will Pesticides Break MAHA’s Alliance with Trump? 13/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan The Trump administration’s approach to pesticides could determine whether it continues to enjoy the support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Key MAHA leaders, including the leaders of Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him not to support “broad […] Continue reading -> ‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds 04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading -> Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘A Mockery’: Nations Unite in Outrage at Plastics Treaty Draft 13/08/2025 Stefan Anderson GENEVA – A new draft of the global plastics treaty published Wednesday found a clever solution to answering the difficult questions facing nations seeking the historic treaty: delete them from the text. The long-awaited draft arrived at a tense moment in negotiations over what many hoped would be a watershed treaty to address the crisis […] Continue reading -> Will Pesticides Break MAHA’s Alliance with Trump? 13/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan The Trump administration’s approach to pesticides could determine whether it continues to enjoy the support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Key MAHA leaders, including the leaders of Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him not to support “broad […] Continue reading -> ‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds 04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading -> Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Will Pesticides Break MAHA’s Alliance with Trump? 13/08/2025 Kerry Cullinan The Trump administration’s approach to pesticides could determine whether it continues to enjoy the support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Key MAHA leaders, including the leaders of Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, wrote a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him not to support “broad […] Continue reading -> ‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds 04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading -> Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
‘Plastics Crisis’ Costs Trillions, Kills Hundreds of Thousands Each Year, Lancet Finds 04/08/2025 Stefan Anderson Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to people and the planet, causing “disease and death” from infancy to old age, a landmark review has found. The Lancet Plastics Countdown, published as diplomats from around the world arrived in Geneva on Monday for the overtime round of talks on a global plastics treaty, estimates […] Continue reading -> Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk 04/08/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks, a new study recommends. NEW DELHI – Almost three-quarters of the world’s top 100 most-polluted cities are in India, but does its widely used air quality index (AQI) adequately warn people of […] Continue reading -> The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
The Accelerating Health Impacts of Heat: UK Climate and Health Summit Highlights Trends Ahead of COP30 28/07/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher LONDON – Summit it was not as there were no heads of state or even Bill Gates, although the UK’s Minister for Climate Change made a compelling presentation showing the kind of policy leadership starkly absent in the United States. Even so, the recent Climate and Health Summit, hosted by the UK Physiological Society, the […] Continue reading -> Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Humanity Moves Into ‘Unknown” as Warming Earth Transgresses Planetary Boundaries 17/07/2025 Maayan Hoffman After 2024 became the warmest year on record, with temperatures rising 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time ever, humanity is “moving into the unknown,” said Andy Haines, professor of environmental change and public health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “We are now above the Paris Agreement’s preferred target […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts