This week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) have announced that air pollution kills 16,000 British people a year. Martin Williams, one of the UK’s leading academics on air...
Together with the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Health...
Different conclusions were reached last year by the WHO’s IARC and EFSA regarding the safety of glyphosate. Given that EFSA’s review of glyphosate relies almost entirely on industry...
Together with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), Greenpeace today released Lethal and Illegal, new research based on air pollution modelling from King’s College, that demonstrates...
Leading insurance company, Axa, is to stop investing in the tobacco industry. The French insurer has a staggering €1.7 billion investment in the industry, but it...
A report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) today has turned the spotlight on UK cities that are falling short of clean air standards. Air...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer agency of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans. They have...
Almost half of the world’s population still uses open fires to cook their food risking a number of diseases because of their exposure to air pollution, explains Nathalia Hentze...
A new study has highlighted the health risks associated with climate change and argues that are numerous health benefits are possible though efforts to mitigate and...
The world must act to curb and adapt to the impacts of climate change or it will face serious health challenges, the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Sierra Leone is subject to a mass epidemic of ebola, a virus thought to be transferred through the eating of fruit bats – which are a...
More than 100 leading public health specialists from around the world have signed a letter to the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), urging for...
Scientists have urged regulators not to introduce restrictions on the use of electronic cigarettes, arguing that limiting the use of such products could cost millions of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of continuing deteriorating air quality in many of the world’s biggest cities. Its urban air quality database, which covers...
The Chinese government has passed the first amendments to its environmental protection laws since their introduction 25 years ago, adding tougher penalties for polluters in the...