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A drone view shows The Markley Group data center in a residential neighborhood, in Lowell, Massachusetts, on July 28, 2026.

Can Data Center Deals Offset Potential Health Harms?

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Although the likely benefits of data centers to society could be vast, the negative consequences are largely borne by the people living near them

Displaced women stand in a long queue to receive food supplies at a displacement camp, in Al-Dabbah, Sudan, on November 13, 2025.

A Food Security Expert on the Record-Breaking El Niño

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El Niño could deepen acute hunger and worsen conflict, particularly in high-risk areas, explains former senior humanitarian advisor Sam Vigersky

Highway Expansion Linked to Dengue Surge in the Amazon

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Paving the Interoceanic Highway through Peru's Madre de Dios region led to more than 10,000 additional cases of dengue, study finds

An Aedes aegypti mosquito with the dengue-blocking Wolbachia bacteria is seen at a laboratory in the Wolbito do Brasil plant, in Curitiba, Brazil, on September 1, 2025.

Heat Stress and Air Pollution Fuel Dementia in Ghana

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Ghana's aging population faces worsening cognitive health, including increased dementia risk, from pollution and high temperature

A woman cooks palm nuts to make oil on the road that connects Obuasi to Cape Coast, in Ghana, on July 26, 2019.

Safety Concerns Plague Humanitarian Aid Work

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Threats that environmental and health conditions pose to humanitarian aid workers are frequently overlooked

Safety Concerns Plague Humanitarian Aid Work

COP29: The Health Expenses of Climate Change

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Does a failure to focus on health economic losses stand opposed to stronger action at the UN summit and beyond?

COP29: The Health Expenses of Climate Change

Polluted Rivers Create a Public Health Crisis in Nepal

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Unchecked urbanization has led to a surge of waterborne diseases among Nepal's poorest communities

Polluted Rivers Create a Public Health Crisis in Nepal

"On the Move": How Climate Migration Will Remake America

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In a must-read, ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten uses the 2018 Camp Fire to show how extreme weather disrupts modern life

A group of U.S. Forest Service firefighters monitor a back fire while battling to save homes at the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, on November 8, 2018.

How Medical Education Is Adapting to Climate Change

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Educational initiatives are sprouting to help doctors and nurses confront the health threats created by climate change

How Medical Education Is Adapting to Climate Change

At COP28, the Climate-Health Nexus Turned a Corner, for Better and Worse

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Health got more attention, a change that magnifies the unprecedented dangers an unprepared world faces

At COP28, the Climate-Health Nexus Turned a Corner, for Better and Worse

Climate Change's Hidden Mental Toll On Children

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New evidence reveals that the climate crisis affects neurological and mental well-being more than previously understood

Climate Change's Hidden Mental Toll On Children

India's Pollution Problem

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India's former secretary for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare talks smog and health

India's Pollution Problem