Climate change is a significant and emerging threat to public health, and changes the way we must look at protecting vulnerable populations. WHO has an active and long-standing programme on protecting health from climate change, guided by a World Health  [ Read More ]

Large-scale and global environmental hazards to human health include climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, changes in ecosystems due to loss of biodiversity, changes in hydrological systems and the supplies of freshwater, land degradation, urbanization, and stresses on food-producing systems. Appreciation  [ Read More ]

At least 30 people in different parts of the country have died in recent weeks due to a spate of lightning strikes. The most devastating strike on Tuesday at Runyanya Primary School in Kiryandongo District killed 18 pupils and left  [ Read More ]

Uganda is crafting a climate change policy to check environmental hazards resulting from human activities in the exploration and exploitation of oil wells. Experts warn that lack of a national climate change policy in the wake of the oil discovery  [ Read More ]