“Every person in Detroit is at risk for flooding – every single household,” says University of Michigan epidemiologist Peter Larson.
Environment & Climate
Locals who depend on the sea for food and culture are trying to understand the risks to traditional foods and wildlife populations in a region undergoing myriad changes.
Threats from multiple types of toxin-producing algae and algae-like organisms are rising as does the water temperature.
Harm reduction groups and health care workers helped avert the worst after Hurricane Helene. But what about the next emergency?
Some 70,000 homes flooded in 2023, leaving mold in many West Side homes, including in Dorothy Rosenthal’s basement. The Chicago health department offers no help to flood victims like her.
Arizona lacks workplace heat safety rules, leaving outdoor workers at risk of death as climate change worsens extreme weather events. A reporter combines data, public records and worker voices to highlight the danger.
More access to veterinarian care, which is scarce in rural communities, would boost both human health and safety as well as animal welfare, bill supporters say.
A data journalist set out to map Duluth's lead water lines, until experts pointed instead to the lead paint in the city's century-old homes.
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.