With local partners, TULIP samples Philippine waters to track antimicrobial resistance and microplastics, turning field data into risk maps that guide targeted, community-led action.
Water connects ecosystems, communities and health—and this cross-disciplinary webinar brings together EU projects to map how pollution, climate and land use shape water quality and human wellbeing.
Two intensive days at ISS and the Aniene River where scientists and citizens teamed up to monitor water quality, sample plastics and pathogens, and turn learning into local action.
Planetary health is a growing field that recognises the close interconnections between human health and the condition of our planet’s natural systems. Human activities impact the environment, altering, for example, air quality, water supplies, food security, and climate stability and these impacts, in turn, affect human health.
Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually. These impacts fall disproportionately upon low-income and at-risk populations. The principal driver of this crisis is accelerating growth in plastic production—from 2 megatonnes (Mt) in 1950, to 475 Mt in 2022 that is projected to be 1200 Mt by 2060. Plastic pollution has also worsened, and 8000 Mt of plastic waste now pollute the planet.
