Nations without nuclear weapons are forging an alliance with civil society groups to stigmatize, ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. Read more »

More than 300,000 doctors, nurses, public health professionals and health advocates from 30 countries are calling on the world’s seven largest economies to accelerate the transition away from coal to save lives ahead of this month’s high level G7 meeting in Japan. Read more »

Extreme weather-related events have clobbered communities recently. Read more »

PSR Security Program co-chair and IPPNW co-president Ira Helfand, MD delivered the following statement to the UN Open-Ended Working Group on disarmament, meeting in Geneva on May 4, 2016. Read more »

A group of nations submitted a formal working paper to the United Nations Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) requesting that the UN General Assembly convene a conference in 2017 to negotiate a nuclear weapons ban treaty. Read more »

IPPNW and three allied international federations—together representing over 15 million health professionals—delivered a joint statement on May 2 to a UN Working Group, citing the medical and scientific evidence about the consequences of nuclear weapons and urging international action to prohibit and eliminate them as "the only course of action commensurate with the existential danger they pose." Read more »

The Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) established by the UN to discuss next legal steps to eliminate nuclear weapons opened this morning with some 100 nations gathered for the meeting. Unfortunately, the US and all other nuclear weapons states are boycotting this critical meeting. Read more »

Almost 30 years ago I was a member of the PSR delegation that toured what was then the USSR. Our trip coincided with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster that occurred about six weeks earlier. Read more »

It is an honor to witness the signing of the Paris Agreement, which was attended by representatives from a record number of countries. The pivotal climate treaty emphasizes the right to health is central to actions taken. Read more »

PSR's "Climate Change Makes Me Sick!" campaign continues to reveal the connections between climate change and health. This week we're focusing on the dangers of longer, hotter summers. Read more »

The world just had the hottest three-month (Jan-Mar) period of any year on record. Temperatures rose by 0.7°F, according to NASA. Read more »

Mayor Denise Simmons of Cambridge, Massachusetts announced on April 2 that by unanimous City Council vote, Cambridge will divest its $1 billion pension fund from "any entities that are involved in or support the production or upgrading of nuclear weapons systems." Read more »

Peabody Energy, the world's largest privately owned coal company, filed for bankruptcy with $6.3 billion of debt. Read more »

A recent report published in Environmental Health Perspectives estimated that preterm births attributable to air pollution cost the US $5.09 billion in 2010 alone. Read more »
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Mayor Denise Simmons of Cambridge, Massachusetts announced that by unanimous City Council vote on March 21, Cambridge will divest its $1 billion pension fund from "any entities that are involved in or support the production or upgrading of nuclear weapons systems." Read more »
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A new study of climate change has found that rising average global temperatures will lead to an increase of public health risks in the United States. Read more »

Clean Energy is Healthy Energy! Wind, solar and especially energy efficiency reduce the need for burning dirty fossil fuels like coal, oil or natural gas. The people of Virginia pay over $2B/year to healthcare providers and suffer the consequences of lost wages and premature deaths from the pollution from burning and managing the waste from coal. Read more »

PSR-Chesapeake, environmental advocates and community groups in Baltimore successfully pressured the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) to declare invalid the permit for a trash-to-energy incinerator proposed for construction in Baltimore. Read more »

Last October, I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma, a form of breast cancer. Fortunately, the cancer was diagnosed in the earlier stages and my long-term prognosis is good. Read more »
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A study recently published in Nature finds that sea levels could rise six feet by the year 2100, putting 13 million U.S. residents at risk of losing their homes. Read more »