These essays are are meant to provide an introduction to selected issues in planetary health, climate change, and environmental degradation for those who want to get up to speed on a given topic. I chose highlighting the most important or relevant topics, spiced with a few examples and stories, over in-depth or comprehensive reviews.

Links to the essays

Introduction to planetary health

Science behind climate change

Where do greenhouse gases come from?

Why we care about warming

Biodiversity, extinction, toxins and the Anthropocene

Air pollution

Heat and health

Soil and sustainable agriculture

Infections, vectors and the microbiome

Plastic

Big picture thinking

Equity and climate justice

Is climate change man-made (anthropogenic)?

Debunking climate change myths

Additional resources

For more in-depth information about these and other related subjects there are links in the essays and there are additional resources listed at the end of each essay. Also see the annotated bibliography and groups and websites sections, where many of the “additional resources” are also listed, along with others.