As the war pushes deep into its third year, what does daily life look like for people living there and how has the conflict changed it?

A modicum of self-restraint is the new black.

Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said.

MSF strongly condemns the decision by the Israeli Military Advocate General to close the cases we submitted for review.

Escalating violence and movement restrictions are limiting access to physical and mental health care for communities in Hebron, West Bank, Palestine.

The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project. Crews were filmed bulldozing prist...

As medicine runs out under Israel's blockade and care is routinely disrupted, dialysis and cancer patients in the enclave are left to die slowly.

The responsibility to protect access to clean water must guide their decisions on data centers, carbon capture and storage facilities, and other large industrial projects.

The new documentary American Doctor tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian territory, w...

by Carmi Orenstein, Networker editor and program director,  Concerned Health Professionals of New York We live in a state that prioritizes the profits of polluters, over protecting its resident...

HIAS condemns today's decision in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado which allows the U.S. government to continue blocking asylum seekers from accessing protection at the border.

Groups Seek to Intervene Against Ill-Conceived Legal Challenge A.G. Letitia James Seeks Dismissal of Legal Challenge Today, a group of New York environmental groups filed a motion to intervene in supp...

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

Israel has escalated its airstrikes across the enclave in recent weeks, burning Palestinians alive as it makes a mockery of the ‘ceasefire.’

What’s the matter, can’t you take a joke?

by Robert M. Gould, MD

Such politics delay climate action by attacking the science, civic space and human rights that make climate action possible

Shifting winds placed a former nuclear reactor and rocket testing site in the path of the growing Sandy Fire. The region’s first major blaze of the season raised alarm from families aware of the site’...

Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.

With all machines destroyed or rendered useless by Israel's siege, we cannot diagnose our patients, forced instead to practice a desperate form of triage.

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, warning residents of 12 towns and villages, including some north of the Litani River -- beyond its current zone of occupation -- to leave their homes. Those warnings wer...

Satellite images, photos and videos show the scope of widespread demolitions in southern Lebanon.

We need clean, renewable energy to protect our health and to drive down energy costs. As organizations representing public and environmental health as well as frontline healthcare professionals, inclu...

UPDATE: On April 22, the Red Cross reported that they had found the body of Amal Khalil under the rubble. Beirut, April 22, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged that the Israeli Defen...

An interview with author Lydia Millet.

Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was a disaster. They promised DOGE would save U.S. taxpayers trillions. Instead, it cost us all money1, destroyed vital agencies2, le...

This is the third global public WHO situation report on the conflict in the Middle East. It covers the health situation and WHO operational updates from affected countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean and European regions, as well as WHO's global response activities and priorities.