1. Contaminantes Emergentes y la Carga Global de Enfermedad.
La presencia ubicua de microplásticos, pesticidas y sustancias químicas persistentes está redefiniendo los riesgos sanitarios modernos, afectando desde el desarrollo fetal hasta la salud neurológica.
- Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of 2.2tn a year, report finds.
- Microplastics can spread dangerous pathogens, scientists warn - sciencealert scientists are hard at work trying to assess the scale of our microplastic pollution problem and the likely health impacts.
- Pfas forever chemicals are a toxic menace to human health and our environment, tong said.
2. Desregulación Ambiental y Retrocesos en la Protección Pública.
Las recientes decisiones políticas han debilitado los estándares de seguridad química y atmosférica, priorizando intereses corporativos sobre la evidencia científica de riesgos para la salud.
- Trumps epa in 2025 a fossil fuel-friendly approach to deregulationscientists and experts say the epas new direction comes at a cost to public health.
- The epa announced doubling the amount of formaldehyde it considers safe to breathe. Formaldehyde causes cancer, miscarriage, asthma, other health issues by altering dna.
- Epa administrator lee zeldin is steering the agency away from its mission, risking long-term health and environmental harm.
3. Calidad del Aire Interior y Salud en Entornos Educativos.
La ventilación y filtración de aire en espacios cerrados se consolidan como intervenciones críticas para reducir la transmisión de patógenos y mitigar los efectos del humo de incendios forestales.
- Improving indoor air quality might save your life the long-term costs of covid to society are going to be astronomical when you tally up the deaths, health costs of long covid.
- Clean air for kids staff in schools daycares shouldnt be controversial no iaq policy at any level of govt ensuring indoor air is clean safe to breathe.
- Indoor air quality may be one of the biggest public health opportunities of the 21st century.
4. El Costo Humano de la Dependencia de Combustibles Fósiles.
La contaminación derivada del carbón, petróleo y gas continúa siendo una de las principales causas de mortalidad prematura y enfermedades crónicas respiratorias a nivel mundial.
- Fossil fuel air pollution causes 34,00 premature deaths in canada each year. Like tobacco industry, fossil fuel companies lie to us about known dangers of their products.
- Dirty air is a health crisis linked to strokes, dementia and cancer 8.1m premature deaths per year - including babies and children.
- Asthma rates around lng terminals are skyrocketing. Radon is poisoning the interior. Families cant see a doctor.
5. Emergencia Climática: Calor Extremo y Salud Materno-Infantil.
El aumento de las temperaturas globales está exacerbando las complicaciones en el embarazo y afectando desproporcionadamente a las poblaciones más vulnerables.
- The climate emergency is a health emergency and its about time we started treating it as one.
- Heatwaves increase pregnancy complications by 27. We are in a race against climate lag to secure a livable world!
- Extreme heat is a major health risk for pregnant moms children. We cannot afford to wait.
6. Justicia Ambiental y Desigualdades en la Exposición.
La ubicación de industrias contaminantes y centros de datos sigue patrones de segregación racial y económica, profundizando las brechas de esperanza de vida.
- Race and poverty predict where polluting industries place their facilities.we are reproducing environmental and health inequity.
- New ai and crypto data centers are being built near black communities, bringing pollution and health concerns.
- Environmental hazards dont make headlines every day, but their impact on human health lasts for generations.