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Australians love a holiday, but are increasingly making travel plans around unpredictable weather.
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
An ecologist explains how Australia can curb the spread of the H5N1 strain.
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
In the wake of the WHO’s One Health summit, a new atlas explores the interdependency between environmental, health and food security issues, and strategies for supporting sustainability and the welfare of all life forms.
If recent trends continue, the atmosphere may become a little toxic to breathe in 50 years.
Health and climate action can be designed together, supporting and reinforcing each other, instead of being treated as separate priorities.
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
8 million metric tons of plastic wind up in Earth’s oceans annually, where marine animals are exposed to this pollution and its potential health effects.
The proposed Middle Arm industrial hub opens the door to serious environmental damage, and suffering for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike.
A new study sheds light on how important exposure to PFAS chemicals via the skin might be and indicates which chemical structures might be most easily absorbed.
Sports activities can expose you to pollutants that are hazardous to your health.
The River Nile is contaminated with microplastics.
Working a day on the firelines as a wildland firefighter can require the endurance of riding the Tour de France. That takes a toll, as a physiologist explains.
Raw seafood dishes such as sushi, poke bowls and ceviche are increasingly popular, but can harbour fish-borne parasites. What’s the best way to protect ourselves?
Alternative food containers, such as those made of bioplastics, are being promoted as a way to reduce our exposure to plastic in food. But there is still a lack of knowledge around their impacts.
New research reveals that the London Underground is polluted with small particles which may carry negative health effects for humans.
Atmospheric dust storms often follow wildfires and have serious impacts on human health and ecology.
Chemicals are omnipresent in our lives and production is booming, yet we know little about their impacts on human health. To fill the gap, the EU has launched a series of biomonitoring initiatives.
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Researcher, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Catedrático de Microbiología. Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología, Universidad de Salamanca
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Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Environmental Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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PhD Candidate, Environmental Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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Ingénieure de Recherche, Université Paris Cité
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Researcher, Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP), Glasgow Caledonian University
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Maître de Conférences, Université Côte d’Azur
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Associate Professor, Environment and Health (MRCG@LSHTM); Senior Lecturer (Ecological Health, Imperial College London), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Biology, Boston College
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Chercheur en Toxicologie, Inrae
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European Project Manager, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (Anses)
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Professor and research co-lead of Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of exercise and work physiology, University of Montana
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Research Engineer, Laboratoire d’Economie Rouen Normandie, Université de Rouen Normandie