Science literacy articles on research, climate, and health.
15 articles
World Resources Institute cites WMO and WHO data showing that while most meteorological services supply climate information to health sectors, few ministries embed it in national surveillance systems.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said El Niño is being 'supersized before our eyes,' warning that the planet is in uncharted waters as September forecasts confirm a very strong event through early 2027.
The September El Niño update points to above-normal rainfall in parts of the southern United States and eastern Africa, where wetter-than-average seasons have historically brought flooding and landslides.
WMO and BBC reporting highlight drier-than-usual conditions across Southeast Asia and Central America, with Indonesia already battling major wildfires as the El Niño peak approaches.
World Resources Institute research, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, estimates that early investment in climate-informed health tools yields strong economic returns even under conservative assumptions.
An interdisciplinary team linked household survey data from 9,813 coastal sites to satellite ocean temperatures, documenting how marine heatwaves correlate with undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries.
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences links marine heatwave exposure to increased odds of child mortality, wasting and stunting across 36 low- and middle-income countries.
BBC reporting on the September WMO update describes a rapidly intensifying El Niño that could be the strongest in more than 70 years, with diverging regional impacts from Southeast Asian drought to flooding in the southern United States.
For the first time, a WMO El Niño/La Niña Update expresses near-total certainty that the event will continue through early 2027, reflecting unprecedented agreement across its global forecasting network.
The World Meteorological Organization's September update confirms a firmly established El Niño that is forecast to reach very strong intensity before peaking late this year, with impacts continuing well into 2027.
Air quality indices, indoor smoke, antibiotic resistance, the microbiome and biodiversity loss are all environmental health stories. This guide explains how the evidence behind them is produced and where it runs out.
From the physics of the greenhouse effect to ice cores, ocean chemistry, tipping points and the difference between adaptation and mitigation, a grounded tour of how climate science reaches its conclusions.
Significance, confidence intervals, relative risk and screening accuracy are routinely misreported. A practical guide to the handful of statistical ideas that decide whether a health headline means anything.
Randomised trials, cohorts, case-control studies and systematic reviews each answer different questions with different certainty. Knowing which design produced a finding tells you most of what you need.
