Sipping a cold drink and taking a dip at the beach or pool is the ultimate way to cool off on a hot day. But it comes with a very real — and often unrealized — risk of developing waterborne diseases.

Coral diseases, particularly in the Caribbean, have caused major declines in coral populations, especially affecting staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) and Elkhorn (A. palmata) corals, which play a ...

Leaves don’t absorb water. And wet leaves can lead to diseases and being scorched by the sun.

All stages of the fossil-fuel life cycle are a threat to human health, yet global overdependence on fossil fuel continues unabated, despite ambitious international agreements to lower greenhouse-gas ...

Countries in the Horn of Africa have been hit by a multiyear drought. Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda are expected to continue getting below-normal rainfall in 2023. Excluding Uganda, 36.4 million ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shows how strategic changes in water treatment effectively treated a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. For the first ...

Two provinces in the Philippines are still reeling from water-borne diseases which started in January this year with no end in sight. Local governments have declared a state of health emergency after ...

A State renowned for being the model of public health in the country and one which has consistently recorded some of the best health indicators nationwide, is now battling recurrent outbreaks of ...