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Research Highlights·Dec 4, 2025

The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India

Could home delivery of locally-treated water increase access to clean drinking water?
Chart·Dec 4, 2025

Delivering Clean Water is Highly Cost Effective

Access to clean drinking water remains one of the world’s most pressing public health challenges, with more than 2 billion people around the world left without clean water to drink. Only 14 percent of rural households in low- and middle-income...
Podcast episode·Nov 24, 2025

Measuring Pollution on Parallel Earths

via People I (Mostly) Admire
Michael Greenstone knows it’s corny, but he wants to make the world a better place — by tracking the impact of air quality, developing pollution markets in India, and … starting a podcast, which Steve says proves he’s over the...
Video·Nov 19, 2025

Behind the Scenes with EPIC’s Clean Air Program: A Conversation with Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA)

In this session, 2025 EPIC AQ Fund Awardee Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA), represented by Muizz Ogbara, shares their perspective as a government partner and advocate deploying a network of air quality sensors across Lagos. They outline their process for...
Podcast episode·Nov 19, 2025

How Losing Vultures Led to 500,000 Human Deaths

via World Wildlife Fund
In this episode, Frank explains: Why vultures are critical for ecosystems and public health How a common painkiller triggered a collapse in vulture populations Why that collapse may have caused 500,000 additional human deaths What this teaches us about the...
Chart·Nov 18, 2025

Requiring Climate Disclosure Could Create Pressure for High-Emitters to Reduce Emissions to be Closer to Peers

Starting in January 2026, publicly listed Brazilian companies will be required to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. This follows similar actions taken around the world—from Australia to New Zealand and the European Union. What will we learn from these disclosures?...
Chart·Nov 12, 2025

The Impact of Heavy Rains and Floods is Highly Unequal

Unmanaged rainfall is an escalating public health threat for cities worldwide. Nearly 1.8 billion people live in flood-prone areas. This number is rising rapidly as urbanization expands into risky zones and climate change intensifies rainfall. In many parts of the...
Research Highlights·Nov 12, 2025

Rain, Tide, and Lives: The Hidden Mortality Cost of Mumbai’s Monsoon

How do rainfall and rising sea levels together shape mortality risks in coastal megacities like Mumbai?
Podcast episode·Oct 31, 2025

Eyal Frank & Tony Five: The Benefits Of Bats

via The Last Show with David Cooper
Environmental economist ⁠Eyal Frank⁠ reveals to David and Tony Five ⁠the many benefits of bats⁠.
Podcast episode·Oct 27, 2025

Episode 8: Water Rising

Sea level rise doesn’t look like a single global flood—it looks like repeated, localized disasters: flooded streets, collapsing home values, and hard choices about where to live. This episode explores how coastal communities, housing markets, and homeowners are reckoning with...