Environment

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.

Economic growth was prioritized when pandemic stimulus could have combined economic and climate objectives, Johns Hopkins experts say

Fairbanks, Alaska, home of breathtaking auroras and scenic mountain vistas, also has some of the worst air quality in the country. A team of Johns Hopkins researchers are part of an international study to find out why.