Let’s not forget that the military and security sectors are often the first responders to environmental crises. As they struggle to manage multiple and parallel issues, the burden could limit their ability to meet any one challenge. Keep Reading
The study is the first to quantify the degree to which increases in PM2.5 pollution during the wildfires contributed to excess COVID-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. Keep Reading
Argentina has become the 100th Contracting State to the mandatory International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations on cutting air pollution from shipping. Keep Reading
The U.S. Department of Transportation is appointing a Chief Science Officer for the entire Department for the first time in over four decades and has taken several additional steps to act on the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to address the climate emergency. Keep Reading
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Canada’s Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra have committed to reinvigorate bilateral cooperation to fight climate change and limit the environmental impacts from transportation networks—on land, air and sea. Keep Reading
The Converging Risks Lab of the Council on Strategic Risks has identified ecological disruption as a "major and underappreciated security threat" and calls on the U.S. to reboot its national security architecture and doctrine to better respond to this evolving threat landscape. Keep Reading
Regions with the highest concentrations of fossil fuel-related air pollution — including Eastern North America, Europe, and South-East Asia — have the highest rates of mortality, according to research by Harvard University and its partners. Keep Reading
Ultimately, GAO found that air quality managers, researchers, and the public need additional information so they can better understand and address the health risks from air pollution. Keep Reading
According to reports from the United Nations, the lasting effects of nuclear testing will persist for centuries. Keep Reading
NOAA’s new generation polar-orbiting satellites are seeing a dramatic reduction in the amount of air pollution in the U.S., as the COVID-19 pandemic creates an economic and societal slowdown. Keep Reading
Smoke from the 2019-2020 forest fires in Australia killed ten times as many people than the fires themselves, and hospitalized many thousands. Keep Reading
People living with poor air quality may be more susceptible to COVID-19, and airborne particulate matter may help to spread the virus, says the World Economic Forum, citing various academic studies. Keep Reading
A wide-ranging United Nations climate report, released on March 10, shows that climate change is having a major effect on all aspects of the environment, as well as on the health and wellbeing of the global population. Keep Reading
The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises. Keep Reading