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“Rain has become my enemy. When it rains, my heart sinks,” says Jane, an entrepreneur who runs a village grocery shop in the Isingiro District of Western Uganda. Over the years the forests in the Isingiro area…

Hundreds of millions of people in Asia rely on rice not only as a staple but as their main source of nutrition. But new research suggests the rice they eat will become less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide…

By Erik Solheim, Head of UN Environment What you don’t know can’t hurt you. Of all the oft-repeated maxims, this one is perhaps the most dangerous. Many things we didn’t know turned out to hurt us. In the 1930s,…

Simon Birkett is on a mission to reduce the toxic levels of air pollution in his beloved London. A former HSBC banker, Simon was inspired to take on the cause full-time after his early retirement in 2009. You could…

Dan Stothart, Regional Humanitarian Affairs Officer for UN Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean, gives a first-hand account from Brazil’s Roraima State. “I feel like an animal!” she told me. I could see a…

“There is no known quantity of lead that is not harmful to humans. It is “particularly toxic to the developing brains of young children,” Mr. Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP, Associate Professor and Associated Faculty…

Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director for UN Environment and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Opening Remarks at All4TheGreen: Mobilizing Climate Science Conference celebrating 30th Anniversary…

By Jan Dusík The fire at a waffle factory in Brussels late last year luckily left no casualties behind. Yet the thick black smoke reminded people in the European Union’s capital how vulnerable we are to pollution…

The Dayton Accords reached 22 years ago heralded an era of peace for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yet the country is now estimated to be the second deadliest in the world for another killer, responsible for more lives…

Over 4,000 key players gather to consider new policies, leadership and funding options Environmental degradation accounts for nearly one in four of all deaths, or 12.6 million people a year, as well as other human…