Exposure to outdoor (ambient) and indoor (household) particulate air pollution places our youngest infants at increased health risk. A...

Globally, there’s an increasing shift of funds towards responsible and ethical investments, with 98% of institutional investors already...

Mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining causes severe environmental and health problems, especially to operators and people living...

“Evidence of Harm” chronicles the lives of three ordinary Americans who become reluctant health advocates after suffering from the...

This Challenge calls for innovative bioeconomy projects in the Amazon Forest that protect and restore biodiversity and ecosystem...

#Ecuador Contamination #InPerspective. For decades the waters of the Calera River and the Yellow River have been contaminated due to the...

An overview of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) practices used in Portovelo, Ecuador. The short film shows how miners...

Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization...

Every day around a staggering 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years breathes air that is so polluted it puts their health...

The life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across...

Half a century after mercury contamination near Grassy Narrows First Nation, the poisoning continues to have deadly consequences —...

The city of Minamata, Japan, is dotted with monuments commemorating victims of an industrial mass poisoning decades ago. High in the...

New research published in the journal Environment International found evidence of microplastics in the human placenta. Researchers called...

LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - From the Andes mountains, thousands of artisanal gold-diggers for years sent fragments of metal to a Swiss...

A study of women in Belgium found black carbon particles, or soot, within the organ. Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a...

University of Oxford earth scientists with diverse expertise have combined their knowledge to inform national and international policy on...

Robbie Williams has shared a fishy tale about his brush with death caused by a seafood diet. The Angels singer, 46, said that he’d been...