Through employing women as community health workers, one Mali nonprofit sees a “quantum leap” reduction in child mortality, which dropped from 1-in-7 children to 1-in-142—a rate lower than some US states.
This is the largest shakedown yet, with the leadership of over two dozen hospitals being put on notice.
When a disaster strikes, there are immediate risks to people and property from the disaster itself. Baseline data is vital to determining the relative role of environmental exposure, especially where disparities are disproportionately high.
As Sustainable Cleveland 2019 nears its conclusion, the city looks for more ways to build resiliency to climate change and to advance social justice.
Puerto Ricans and lawmakers question FEMA’s subcontracting snafu that left millions of emergency meals undelivered after Hurricane Maria.
As Michigan’s wildlife cooperatives demonstrate, collaborations can be wildly successful at achieving a mutual goal and the key to achieving success is altering the perceptions of stakeholders by identifying a mutual benefit.
This $76M outlay from the Gates Foundation to repay a loan accrued by the Nigerian government to finance polio eradication is notable not just for its size, but its human value. Five years ago, Nigeria had half of all polio cases worldwide; last year, there were no reported new cases at all.
Since taking office in January 2017, the Trump administration has attempted to reverse at least 60 environmental rules, with 29 rules already overturned, 24 rollbacks in progress, and seven rule rollbacks in limbo so far.
Nonprofits using public-facing investigative journalism bridge the gap between scientists and journalists to bring environmental news to the people.
The weakening of the EPA comes at a terrible time, when wide scientific consensus agrees that our planet is at the brink of, and may already be experiencing, a sixth mass extinction.
