By Anya Nanning Ramamurthy – COVID-19 has dominated media, and changed our way of life for nearly two years (Figure 1), but this has not been felt evenly by everyone. For instance, COVID-19 mortality rates are higher for men [1], and older people and some ethnic groups are more vulnerable [2,3]. Those with certain pre-existing…
Clean water projects, such as the Rajasthan drinking water project, significantly improve community health and wellbeing, but is this at the cost of gender equality development? Rajasthan is a large state in North India. Despite containing ten percent of India’s land area, Rajasthan only produces one percent of the country’s water resources. [2] Rajasthan is…
By Ella Vincent – Environmental justice (EJ) is a concept in geography that hasn’t been around for long, because of this, it’s an increasingly popular theme that becomes more prevalent each day across the globe. EJ is based upon the ideals that everyone has the right to equal protection from environmental and public health laws…
By Rose Huish-Neave – With more deaths than any human war, the meat industry kills 200 million animals per day and 18,000 humans per year [1]. More antibiotics are used on livestock than on our sick populations and are the primary cause of deforestation worldwide [2]. Humans could solve world hunger if crops grown for…
By Luke Josef Misra – Introduction. In recent years microplastics have come to the forefront of media attention. Microplastics, which are defined as plastic pieces less than five millimetres long, are believed to be the most plentiful form of plastic in the oceans [1] at up to 92.4% [2]. A peer reviewed article by Li…
By Alice Lamb – The global impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have been varied and widespread, creating crises that threaten global food security [1]. According to a UN report, the number of people who don’t have enough food to eat rose steeply during the pandemic to almost a third of the world [2], juxtaposing…
By Luisa Kate Shield – In 2021, Laborde et al published an article in Agricultural Economics [1] that showed the severity the COVID-19 pandemic had on food security and global diets. Changes in global food consumption have been evident since the COVID-19 pandemic began, this is due to three main reasons: changes in household incomes,…
By Jasmine Couchman – 1 in 3 people still lack access to safe drinking water worldwide [1]. Water is fundamental to the function of humanity as deh ydration is significantly more instantaneous than starvation [2]. While you and I likely just turn the tap on, without a second thought, this insecurity, predominantly in less economically…
By Sara Antonioli – Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s story shocked the nation when she became the first UK resident to have air pollution on her death certificate, at just 9 years old [1]. London, like many world cities, is facing the ever growing threat of air pollution (figure 1). Congestion has been one of the main areas…
By Rob Chantrey – In 2018 alone, 8.7million people died from fossil fuel-driven air pollution, equivalent to 20% of deaths worldwide [1]. This is not an anomaly. Every year millions globally, in both developing and developed countries, die at the hands of the ‘invisible killer’. Despite an increasing number of discoveries identifying smog’s impacts on…