Health

Increased pain, respiratory problems, malnutrition: climate change is impacting on our bodies.

Proposals approved last week would leave decision makers vulnerable to aggressive industry lobbying.

‘Serious questions’ raised over plastic and immune health.

What is CBD oil, what does it do and is there cause for skepticism?

Channel 4's Dispatches and King's College London research shows micro plastics from tyres is harming the development of children's lungs.

Rising emissions and air pollution levels threaten global public health, the World Health Organisation has warned.

Bristol Airport expansion could jeopardise the long-term health of unborn babies due to massive increases in toxic emissions from planes and vehicles.

A huge 96 percent of Royal Horticultural Society members believe in the health benefits of gardening.

A critical appraisal of the mining industry’s contributions to the global water crisis, on World Water Day 2019 and in the wake of recent disasters.

Scientists describe how to feed a population of 10 billion people by 2050 while keeping the planet and ourselves healthy.

Children are at the forefront of suffering from air pollution, explains a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.

Programme of 'river remedies' led to increased wellbeing among vulnerable adults and teenagers.

Innovation in medicine must be geared towards public health and not private profit, according to a new report.

Compassionate Communities programme prompts fourteen percent reduction in emergency admission to hospital in Frome, Somerset.

“Squishies” – soft foam toys which have become a craze due to their squeeziness and scent – have been banned in Denmark after government tests found high levels of harmful substances.

The Summer Camp held by The Resurgence Trust - publisher of The Ecologist - is taking place from 13 July 2018. Speakers will discuss our search for personal wellbeing - and also how to create a society that holds and helps each of its members reach their potential. GREG NEALE reports

A major new study reveals that climate change may be a global medical emergency far bigger than we previously thought. But the authors also see signs that world may be starting to wake up to the danger, reports JOE WARE

The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health. GEORGINA DOWNS responds.

With 60 percent of the world's caloric intake now coming from only three crops: rice, maize and wheat PIERINA BENITES ALFARO discusses what can be done to promote Agro-biodiversity and its use as a strategy to adapt to climate change

The Vegan Society today launches its Plate up for the Planet to encourage people to abandon meat and dairy products, for their health, and for the health of the environment, reports LAURA BRIGGS.

A 2001 study that showed that glyphosate caused cancer in mice was ignored by the EFSA after the unsubstantiated allegation of a former US-EPA official that the mice used in the study were suffering from a viral infection that might have given them cancer, writes Claire Robinson. The EFSA failed to properly investigate the allegation, which appears to originate in a document linked to Monsanto, maker of the world's top-selling herbicide, glyphosate-based Roundup.