Preliminary studies have identified a positive correlation between COVID-19-related mortalities and air pollution. There is also a...

According to a research report by shopping comparison site, Finder.Com, the UK could be sending 53.5 million single-use blue surgical...

In February 2018, a panel of experts presented to the World Health Organization (WHO) a list of diseases that posed public health risks...

As states begin to reopen and people start to venture outdoors, they may notice new, previously unseen forms of pollution- face masks and...

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, medical science and big data have helped countries navigate the crisis. Meanwhile, countries that have...

How can we learn from our response to COVID-19 to tackle other crises, such as the climate crisis? The virus has generated one of the...

How can we prevent the next pandemic? In an interview with Yale Environment 360, science author David Quammen says that the COVID-19...

According to a study published in the US science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in China have...

Single-use plastic is one of the greatest threats to the environment. According to the Hong Kong-based NGO OceansAsia, approximately 300...

While this pandemic has forced much of the world to self-isolate inside their homes, this is simply not possible for many people. While...

The abrupt collapse of tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic has again highlighted the inadequacy of resources for conservation in...

The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic eased air pollution levels as a result of lockdown measures around the world, especially in...

The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe and is showing little sign of dissipating, with fresh outbreaks being reported in Latin...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an ‘extreme’ effect on daily carbon emissions, resulting in a drop of 17% in global carbon emissions,...

To ‘flatten the curve’ is a term that has become popular with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It refers to slowing the rate of...

A network of mayors of some of the world’s most powerful cities has warned that the recovery post-COVID-19 should not be a return to...

Social media has been abuzz with images of clear skies around the world as a result of lowered emissions due to coronavirus shutdown...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the spread of zoonotic diseases to the fore, with evidence mounting that bats infected another animal,...

COVID-19 has spread rapidly from China to the rest of the world. Thousands of lives have been lost and the pandemic has all but crashed...

With as many as 300 000 cases recorded in 188 countries, the United Nations’ World Health Organization has recently declared the...