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In New Orleans’ urban heat islands, too few green spaces, poverty, and inadequate cooling options make residents vulnerable to heat’s health risks.

How humans navigate a world out of balance.

“We need to be ambitious and speak uncomfortable truth to intransigent power,” says planetary health leader Tan Sri Jemilah Mahmood.

Trillions of tiny plastic fragments have dispersed throughout the Earth—and most human bodies. It’s one example of how humans have disrupted natural systems with devastating consequences.

Extreme weather is amplifying mental health crises across the world. Solutions are needed now.

From innovating ways to preserve glacial ice to predicting climate-driven migration shifts to building resilient cities, researchers are exploring scalable solutions to safeguard a planet in peril.

Pollution from traffic snaking through the Nashville's urban core disproportionately impacts historically marginalized communities, exposing residents to high concentrations of airborne toxins.

Cities must rethink transportation infrastructure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate extremes including heat waves and floods affect almost everyone in Pakistan, but people who are transgender suffer disproportionately because of stigma that limits education, work, and housing options, pushing them to the margins of society. 

Ancient wisdom supported my people for thousands of years—and can heal the polycrisis threatening the modern world.

Rising carbon levels are eroding nutritional values of staple crops, threatening millions with hidden hunger.

Protesting coal dust and half-burned medical waste, South Baltimore residents lead the way on environmental health research.

Biodiversity is one of our best defenses against many infectious diseases.

Industrial food animal production exploits workers, poisons water sources, and promotes the transmission of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Is there a better way?

By improving the extraction of hydrogen from water through electrolysis, we can make this abundant and efficient energy carrier and industrial product easier and cheaper to produce and take fossil fuels out of the equation.