For people in treatment for substance use disorder, the weeks and months after Hurricane Helene unraveled lives they’d spent years rebuilding.
Climate Change
Recovery from substance use disorder requires community. What happens when a disaster tears that apart?
Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.
A bacteria that commonly causes gastrointestinal illness was previously no problem for Alaska seafood eaters. Now cases happen every year and the state has a control program.
Extreme heat disrupts body functions, raises injury risk, and worsens long-term health. Evidence shows simple protections and regulations can prevent many worker deaths.
KJZZ traces the lives lost to Arizona’s extreme workplace heat — and the growing calls for stronger protections.
An Arizona commission is set to debate new workplace heat rules as pressure grows to better protect outdoor workers.
Proposed Arizona heat rules could standardize protections for workers — but some employers say the requirements may be hard to meet
Arizona workers describe dangerous heat on the job, and why fear of retaliation or lost wages keeps many from speaking up.
Fur seal die-offs in the Bering Sea’s Pribilof Islands are part of a pattern that affects people who depend on the sea for their food, culture and economic well-being