Public health alerts on air quality, outbreaks of disease carried by water-borne vectors, and assessments of access to health facilities are informed by Earth observations and help to achieve SDG Goal 3 on Good Health and Wellbeing.
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PLAY VIDEOWhite House edits CDC testimony on the health risks of climate change.
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PLAY VIDEOA study published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” shows that infections caused...
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PLAY VIDEOReuters reports that “Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 percent since 2001,...
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PLAY VIDEOScientists track the evolution of HIV virus using genetic analysis. It’s an example of how...
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PLAY VIDEOAir quality in New Delhi has deteriorated significantly in the past two years, exposing the...
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PLAY VIDEOThe ability of infectious diseases to thrive depends on changes in the Earth’s environment such...
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PLAY VIDEOTwo Los Angeles reservoirs – the Elysian and the Silver Lake – have been closed...
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PLAY VIDEOA small Italian village is experiencing an outbreak of the tropical disease chikungunya – a...
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PLAY VIDEOAn international team of scientists have found a method that could allow sea cucumbers’ ability...
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PLAY VIDEODemand for traditional medicines – which consumers feel is more holistic than Western medicine –...
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PLAY VIDEOAccording to a new study done by Stanford University researchers, anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide...
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PLAY VIDEODavid Rogers – head of the EU-funded Eden Project – says that although a warmer...
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PLAY VIDEOEcotourists and researchers studying Africa’s great apes – and simultaneously protecting them from poachers, are...
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PLAY VIDEOA recent article published in the British Medical Journal warns that climate change will have...
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PLAY VIDEOResearchers from the Finnish Radiation ad Nuclear Safety Authority have shown that radiation from cellular...
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PLAY VIDEOSkin secretions from a South American “shrinking” frog could be used to treat type 2...
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PLAY VIDEOIn what could have serious implications for humans – according to Charles Hanafin of Stanford...
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PLAY VIDEORaising concerns about the long-term consequences to human health, a vast array of pharmaceuticals –...
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PLAY VIDEOThe Bush administration has tightened restrictions regarding smog-forming ozone – reducing the acceptable level from...
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PLAY VIDEOThe Center for Public Integrity has released data on chemical health hazards in the Great...
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PLAY VIDEOScientists from the Northern Land Research firm are suggesting that sled dog’s fur coats can...
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PLAY VIDEOSucralose, or Splenda as it is better known, has been found to be omnipresent in...
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PLAY VIDEOThe air inside certain automobiles manufactured by European, Japanese and U.S. companies can have very...
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PLAY VIDEOThe government of Ecuador has filed a lawsuit against the government of Colombia in the...
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PLAY VIDEOThe world’s largest marsupial carnivore is facing extinction from a mystery facial cancer, but...
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PLAY VIDEOThe Brazilian government begins producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon.
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PLAY VIDEOA chemical widely used in consumer plastics manufacturing, bisphenol A (BPA), is raising concerns following...
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PLAY VIDEOSamples of milk from nursing humans in Massachusetts show traces of the Perfluorinated compounds, or...
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PLAY VIDEOA new study has shown that higher levels of soot in the air can cause...
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PLAY VIDEOA team of scientists has found that tiny nanotubes – the wonder material of nanotechnology...
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PLAY VIDEODemocratic Senators lambaste the EPA for firing an official – Mary Gade – after she...
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PLAY VIDEOA report by the California Air Resources board says that up to 24,000 Californians die...
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PLAY VIDEONew findings suggest that – as it becomes evident that even low leveles of particulate...
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PLAY VIDEOAn interview with a physician and molecular biologist and teacher of genetics at the University...
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PLAY VIDEOWhen the Group of Eight, G8, leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries open their annual...
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PLAY VIDEOBritain’s Sir John Sulston says that profits are taking precedence over the needs of patients,...
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PLAY VIDEOThe brains of young children absorb twice as much as radio frequency energy from a...
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PLAY VIDEODespite various actions taken by the government, Beijing’s air is murky just days before the...
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PLAY VIDEOEnvironmental groups have asked manufacturers of compact fluorescent lamps to find ways to minimize and...
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PLAY VIDEOEfforts to sustain eradicate malaria won’t succeed without an integrated approach linking malaria and neglected...