A Global Environmental Perspective

The worry is that life online is giving us what researcher, David Levy, calls "popcorn brain" -- a brain so accustomed to the constant stimulation of electronic multitasking that we're unfit...

The Earth’s surface was once held tightly in the grasp of forests. An estimated 14 per cent of the 150 million square kilometres that make up our terrestrial ecosystems was rainforest, for example....

A new IOM report, Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies, will be publicly released on June 23, 2011. All members of the public are invited to participate in a briefing that will be...

Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global...

From across the state of New York they came: scientists, landowners, farmers, consumer advocates, laborers, elected officials, environmentalists, doctors and representatives of business,...

The California Department of Public Health is working to improve public health by delivering science-based information on the trends and distributions of diseases, environmental threats, and...

Manmade chemicals are everywhere, from food to furniture, cosmetics to computers, toys to toothpaste. They have brought great benefits, swelling our harvests, beating previously unvanquishable...

The pesticide endosulfan will be banned in 2012 except for certain exempted uses, under an agreement struck April 29 by more than 170 countries. Endosulfan can cause neurological and...

People don’t think of the Environmental Protection Agency as a public health agency, says EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, but the EPA’s job is to protect the health of adults and children...

Ozone and particle pollution are the most widespread air pollutants -- and among the most dangerous. Recent research has revealed new insights into how they can harm the body -- including...

It’s probably safe to say that a majority of Americans were pretty surprised that...

A new study from Hasbro Children’s Hospital has found that most obese adolescents are lacking in vitamin D. The researchers call for increased surveillance of vitamin D levels in this...

Last week I was in Berlin at the Global Water...

The National Drug Authority has banned five veterinary drugs that are said to cause cancer and genetic disorders in humans. Kampala New Vision, Uganda.

A study by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Ministry of Environmental Protection says the government's intensified efforts to control pollution have paid off by cutting emissions...