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Does Kenya's secondhand clothes trade have public health risks?

Kenya’s booming secondhand clothing trade is generating huge amounts of textile waste, raising concerns about bacteria, microplastics and public health risks.

28 Aug 2026

3 min read

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A woman displays her wares for sale at a market in Nairobi. Image by Biva2017 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Street trees shading an asphalt road in Málaga, Spain. While trees are the obvious go-to cooling solution, their upkeep can be expensive. Image by Ari Dinar via Unsplash (Free to use).

Why tropical cities are often hotter if they're poorer

13 Aug 2026

12 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

Grace Chyuwei pours water on Joe Chyuwei to help with the heat in Death Valley National Park, California, in 2025. Image by AP Photo/John Locher, File

More than two-thirds of humanity now faces at least 90 days of extreme heat every year

28 Jul 2026

3 min read

Cross-posts Climate change Research summary

Climate refugees Rabeya Khatoon, right, and Moriom Bibi, who lost their homes to cyclone Aila, work at a brick field on the outskirts of Dhaka in the heat, 2009. Image by AP Photo/Pavel Rahman.

The impact of extreme heat on Bangladesh’s informal workers

22 Jul 2026

6 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

Just over 1,000 mountain gorillas remained in DRC’s Virunga National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park as of 2018. If just one of them contracted Ebola, it could “decimate the population,” with less than 20% projected to survive at 100 days post-infection. Image by Cai Tjeenk Willink via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Are gorillas in the DRC at risk amid the human Ebola outbreak?

18 Jun 2026

9 min read

Cross-posts One health Ebola

Eliurus tuft-tailed rat. Photo by Elise Paietta

Why forest conservation is also public health

30 Apr 2026

7 min read

Cross-posts One health Research summary

A woman in Nigeria prepares food. Image by KC Nwakalor / USAID via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As climate change burdens grow, community mental health alarm bells ring

25 Aug 2025

12 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

People on a Sydney beach on a hot summer day. Image by Neerav Bhatt via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Hotter weather threatens heart health, Australian study warns

28 Mar 2025

3 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of the Alto Xingu Family Institute (IFAX)

How are ‘heat domes’ hurting our health?

15 Jan 2025

17 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

Workers sort through discarded plastic in Bangladesh. Credit: Mumtahina Tanni via Pexels

Plastics are invading our bodies, not just our oceans

21 Nov 2024

8 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

A jararaca (Bothrops jararaca). Image courtesy of Mateus Serrer/Comunicação Butantan.

Why climate change means we need to rethink antivenom supply

26 Aug 2024

7 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d’Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

How climate change is making it more likely that the food we eat will make us sick

21 Aug 2024

6 min read

Cross-posts Climate change

More than 95% of southern elephant seal pups (Mirounga leonina) born in 2023 perished in that year from the deadly outbreak of avian influenza. Image © Antonio Alcami.

How is bird flu affecting animal populations?

12 Aug 2024

16 min read

Cross-posts Bird flu

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