Deforestation for consumer products increases malaria transmission.

An AI analysis of photographs posted on social media revealed a positive association between nature and happiness globally.

A new policy report, Electronic Registration Systems for Cooling Towers – Improving Public Health and Sustainability Outcomes, published by the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) proposes a standardized yet flexible template for cooling tower registries that are designed to improve health outcomes, address disparity in affected populations, and increase water and energy efficiency.

About 80% of pharmaceuticals sold in the U.S. are produced in China. The global dependence on China for the production of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment poses a potential crisis.

Professor Joshua Fu and colleagues studied wildfires in that state from 2011 through 2014, gaining valuable insight into how smoke from the fires affects the health of people in its path.

Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world’s earliest human settlements.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention receives reports of about 30,000 cases of Lyme disease each year.

Our day-to-day lives can be seen as a series of complex motor sequences: morning routines, work or school tasks, actions we take around mealtimes, the rituals and habits woven through our evenings and weekends. 

People can carry hazardous compounds from cigarette smoke that cling to their bodies and clothes and then release those compounds into non-smoking environments — exposing people nearby to cigarettes’ adverse effects, a new study shows.

A study using neuroimaging led by Stony Brook University professor and lead author Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, PhD, and published in PNAS, reveals that neurobiological changes associated with aging can be seen at a much younger age than would be expected, in the late 40s.