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As COVID-19 slowly loosens its grip on India, it leaves in its wake more than half a million deaths, damaged health infrastructure, financial duress, and mountains of discarded personal protective equipment. 

A three-episode series unpacking the water crises in Jackson, Flint, and other U.S. cities.

Adil Haider, dean of AKU’s Medical College, explains in this Q&A how his university delivered medical care to 400,000+ people in less than 2 months—and how to prepare for future disasters.

A proposal to solve climate change by reducing fertility violates the tenets of reproductive justice—and sparks tough ethical questions.

5 years living under a blue FEMA tent—a temporary solution for the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Only to lose everything again when Hurricane Fiona flooded Puerto Rico with the equivalent of 1.1 million Olympic-size swimming pools. This is the reality for many Puerto Ricans.

The health care sector plays an outsized role in climate change. Can well-meaning new policies avoid exacerbating inequities?

The Supreme Court’s Ruling will have consequences for climate change, but change is still possible at the local level.

A number of Indian farmers are adopting natural cultivation methods to avoid the hazardous health effects of pesticide use—preparing homemade chemical-free fertilizers and using ecologically sensitive cultivation approaches.

Dyes, relaxers, and conditioners give salon clients the styles they want—and leave salon workers with a potentially dangerous chemical burden.

The sprawling U.S. industrial food system creates big challenges that demand creative solutions.

The impacts of racism and on health and well-being in the U.S.

Environmental health and engineering PhD student Dylan Gaeta discusses his study linking the unregulated insecticide sulfuryl fluoride to a common fumigation practice in California

In analysis of 22 large cities in 14 countries, more than one-quarter did not report involvement of a public health agency.