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June 2025

Photo caption: Architectural photograph of glass building filled with plants in Singapore. Photograph by Paula Prekopova.

To ensure a liveable future, we will need rapid transformational change in how we’re living across all of our systems: food, energy, manufacturing, green chemistry, and the built environment.
Sam Myers
Founding and Faculty Director of the Planetary Health Alliance, in a compelling profile by The Lancet.

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Impact of rising CO2 on food security and human health risks and potential adaptation strategies. Global Change Biology.
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Nutritional Diseases Air Pollution

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Impact of rising CO2 on food security and human health risks and potential adaptation strategies. Global Change Biology.

This review draws on decades of CO₂ enrichment experiments to show that while rising CO₂ can increase crop yields, it also reduces nutritional quality, elevates toxin-related health risks, and exacerbates food insecurity without targeted adaptation strategies.
Urban water scarcity in Addis Ababa city: Hard versus soft path solutions: A systematic review. Discover Geoscience.

Infectious Diseases Land Use and Land Cover Change

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Urban water scarcity in Addis Ababa city: Hard versus soft path solutions: A systematic review. Discover Geoscience.

Bekana, T.H., Ebrea, M.G., Netsanet, N.H., et al.

The review explores urban water management in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and advocates for better supply, sanitation, and land use planning to improve water security and quality in the city.
Conceptual GeoHealth Framework for disaster response research: Case study for Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires and data integration. Earth and Space Science.

Noncommunicable Diseases Climate Change

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Conceptual GeoHealth Framework for disaster response research: Case study for Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires and data integration. Earth and Space Science.

Barkoski, J., Liu, A., Van Fleet, E., et al.

This study creates a framework to explore how wildfires affect health. It brings together experts to identify areas of improvement in data collection for understanding health impacts, helping communities better prepare for and respond to disasters.
Managing the complexity of emerging contaminants in aquatic environments: Exploring their ecotoxicological impacts, detection techniques, and the use of innovative technologies for their remediation. Discover Catalysis.

Chemical Pollution Technology and Innovation

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Managing the complexity of emerging contaminants in aquatic environments: Exploring their ecotoxicological impacts, detection techniques, and the use of innovative technologies for their remediation. Discover Catalysis.

Singh, C.K., Sodhi, K.K., Nitin, V., et al.

This review highlights the threat of emerging aquatic contaminants and their risks to wildlife and human health, calling for advanced, sustainable treatment technologies and catalytic innovations to protect water quality.
Nature-based solutions for climate resilient infrastructure planning in Indonesia. World Wildlife Fund.

Climate Change Built Environment and Urbanization

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Nature-based solutions for climate resilient infrastructure planning in Indonesia. World Wildlife Fund.

Bartlett, R., Joshi, S., Chaplin-Kramer, B., et al.

This report uses mapping and ecosystem service models to show how restoring and protecting nature can strengthen climate resilience for infrastructure and people in Indonesia, benefiting millions and much of the national road network.
Enhancing resilience and sustainable healthcare supply chains: Integrating circular economy and dynamic barrier management. Discover Sustainability.

Resource Scarcity Health and Care Systems

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Enhancing resilience and sustainable healthcare supply chains: Integrating circular economy and dynamic barrier management. Discover Sustainability.

Alfina, K.N., Ratnayake, R.M.C., Wibisono, D., et al.

This study used circular economy principles to show how managing risks and reusing resources can help healthcare systems avoid shortages and become more reliable and sustainable.
Impact of temperature variations on burden of lower respiratory infections under climate change (1990–2021). BMC Public Health.

Infectious Diseases Climate Change

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Impact of temperature variations on burden of lower respiratory infections under climate change (1990–2021). BMC Public Health.

Huang, W., Yin, L., Li, H., et al.

Using Global Burden of Disease 2021 data, this study quantifies how high, low, and non-optimal temperatures contribute to lower respiratory infections across 204 countries, revealing climate-linked health inequities by age, sex, region, and development level.
Integrating environmental sustainability into hospitals performance management systems: A scoping review. BMC Health Services Research.

Health and Care Systems Planetary Health Frameworks

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Integrating environmental sustainability into hospitals performance management systems: A scoping review. BMC Health Services Research.

Dolcini, M., Ferrè, F., Brambilla, A., et al.

This scoping review analyzes recent publications addressing environmental sustainability performance measurement and management in hospitals and identifies six key performance indicators.
The global impact of industrialisation and climate change on antimicrobial resistance: Assessing the role of Eco-AMR Zones. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Infectious Diseases Climate Change

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The global impact of industrialisation and climate change on antimicrobial resistance: Assessing the role of Eco-AMR Zones. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Oyelayo, E.A., Taiwo, T.J., Oyelude, S.O., et al.

This study uses bioinformatics and statistical modeling to assess how industrialization and climate change drive global antimicrobial resistance, proposing Eco-AMR Zones as a mitigation strategy.
Effect of a novel house design (star home) on indoor malaria mosquito abundance in rural Tanzania: secondary outcomes of an open-label, household, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Planetary Health.

Infectious Diseases Built Environment and Urbanization

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Effect of a novel house design (star home) on indoor malaria mosquito abundance in rural Tanzania: secondary outcomes of an open-label, household, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Planetary Health.

Mmbando, A.S., Ngonzi, A.J., Mshamu, S., et al.

This study evaluates whether a novel screened house design (star home) reduces indoor mosquito abundance and malaria transmission risk compared with traditional houses.
Impact of marine microplastics on neurologic and functional disabilities: A population-level study. European Journal of Neurology.

Noncommunicable Diseases Ocean / Marine Degradation

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Impact of marine microplastics on neurologic and functional disabilities: A population-level study. European Journal of Neurology.

Makwana, B., Desai, B., Srinivasan, J., et al.

This cross-sectional study links higher marine microplastic levels to increased prevalence of cognitive, mobility, and self-care disabilities in U.S. coastal counties.
Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries. Nature.

Climate Change Governance and Policy

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Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries. Nature.

van Vuuren, D.P., Doelman, J.C., Tagomori, I.S., et al.

This study uses the Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment (IMAGE) to project control variables for eight out of nine planetary boundaries under alternative scenarios to 2050.
Outdoor air pollution, road traffic noise, and allostatic load in children aged 6–11 years: Evidence from six European cohorts. European Journal of Epidemiology.

Life Stage and Reproductive Health Air Pollution

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Outdoor air pollution, road traffic noise, and allostatic load in children aged 6–11 years: Evidence from six European cohorts. European Journal of Epidemiology.

Mou, Y., Kusters M.S.W., Robinson, O., et al.

This study explored whether exposure to air pollution and road traffic noise is linked to physiological stress in 919 children. Results suggest that higher exposure to air pollutants is a chronic stressor in early life.

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