A BBC survey found that only 1,465 of the country’s 13,000 high-risk contaminated areas have been tested, leaving 11,000 areas unassessed for a long time. The contaminated areas include abandoned metal mines and landfill sites, where lead and arsenic levels in the soil seriously exceed the standards. Local authorities in Wales and England say funding…

The European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) recently released their second “Zero Pollution Monitoring and Outlook Report”. The report states that while air quality in many EU countries is better than the air quality standards set by the World Health Organization, the situation in member states such as Italy and Poland is worrying.…

Japanese civic groups held a press conference on March 3 to question the standards related to organofluorine compounds (OFCs) set by the Food Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office of Japan. In recent years, Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and other places have been exposed to a succession of excessive…

As of February 2025, nearly two years into the armed conflict in Sudan, 90% of healthcare facilities in the capital city of Khartoum have been paralyzed, drinking water contamination is at 76%, and more than 10,000 new cholera cases have been reported in a single week. More than 12.9 million people, or 27% of the…

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka recorded the world’s most polluted air quality one Saturday morning, where the air was categorized as hazardous based on air quality and ranking of polluted cities, reports PTI. According to a study by the Center for Energy and Clean Air Research (CECAR), air pollution is responsible for 102,456 deaths in Bangladesh every…

On February 26, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a bulletin stating that an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections associated with energy-supplemented beverages in several U.S. states has resulted in 38 infections and 12 deaths, and that the affected energy-supplemented beverage brands have announced recalls of their products.

February 21 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says an outbreak of contaminated drinking water has hit southern Sudan’s White Nile state over the past three days, killing at least 24 people and hospitalizing more than 800 others. The outbreak was caused by problems with drinking water in Kosti, White Nile State, following a drone strike…

In 2025, a new chemical contaminant called “X-Chem” will enter the global food supply chain, affecting more than 50 percent of food products, from baby formula in Europe to frozen pizza in the U.S. to seafood in Asia. X-Chem is an industrial synthetic that is colorless and odorless, and can cause liver and kidney failure,…

February 21 – The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has led to a total collapse of public health services in the Gaza Strip, including garbage collection, with piles of garbage in the streets and public places, and a temporary landfill in the center of Gaza City that is nearly full, posing a serious threat to the health of…

February 18, 2025 – The recent Listeria contamination incident has caused widespread concern in North America, forcing a large-scale recall of several U.S. and Canadian vegetable brands. The vegetables involved in the recalls include pre-packaged salads, chard, spinach and other fresh produce, which have been found to contain Listeria in routine testing. The recall affected…