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Environment & Climate

A car drives down a dusty road near the Salton Sea.

As the Salton Sea shrinks, is enough being done to protect public health?

Not only is the air quality decreasing, but the number of extreme heat events is on the rise. What will this mean for the health of nearby communities?

Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health
Chickens at the 2018 Iowa County Fair.

Coronavirus Files: Bird flu stirs worries, but it’s too soon to panic

Also, California drops plan to require COVID vaccines in schools, and Chinese study claims no new variants detected from outbreak there.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics
Photo by Rick Gershon/Getty Images

How an email tipped me off to a regulatory disaster at California’s indoor gun ranges

Even worse, the investigation revealed children had been tasked with cleaning up the toxic mess at one range.

Environmental Health
The amount of tree canopy, and the shade it provides, varies throughout Rochester Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. S Goodman Street headi

Rochester's trees make Landmark Society of Western New York's annual 'Five to Revive' list

In its announcement that Rochester's trees should be protected, the Landmark Society of Western New York's cited a Democrat and Chronicle 2022 series on the topic.

Environmental Health
Rent remains cripplingly high in several parts of the country.

Coronavirus Files: Congress investigates pandemic response as White House eyes end of emergency

GOP-led House takes aim at COVID origins, U.S. response. Also, public health experts see value in monitoring wastewater to detect new viral threats.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Food and Nutrition
Sonja Tengblad hands an information sheet to a driver idling outside of Logan Airport’s Terminal B.

East Boston mothers continue decades-long fight against airport pollution

Residents and activists say the airport expansion, completed half a century ago, continues to harm their health and well-being today.

Environmental Health, Mental Health
Mike Matthews holds a vial he uses when testing for nitrate in water on December 1. Each test costs $16. There are 37 reverse os

Clean water doesn’t come cheap: Nebraska towns are shelling out millions to treat nitrate-laced drinking water.

Nebraska’s groundwater is becoming increasingly laced with nitrate. And small towns, cities and rural Nebraskans are getting stuck paying the tab.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Food and Nutrition
Wood Island Park,East Boston

Cómo Logan Airport casi destruye East Boston y cómo East Boston sigue resistiendo

Environmental Health
Photo via L.A. TACO archives.

A pick axe and a heart attack: Workers suffer as they clean up toxic mess that Vernon’s old battery recycling plant left behind

Residents living near the former battery recycling plant in have long complained about issues with the cleanup, and now employees of the contractors responsible for the cleanup are speaking out too.

Environmental Health, Chronic Disease
Deborah Bell-Holt and her granddaughter stand before an oil drilling site just blocks from her South Los Angeles home.

Toxic Pollutants a Growing Concern for Pregnant Mothers and Babies

Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Women's and Maternal Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

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