Environment Archives

Washing Away Climate Promises

Fellow Rylie Lillibridge

Burning Questions: Why U.S. Sunscreens Fall Short

Fellow Jude Sleiman

Air Quality: An Unequal Burden

Fellow Farah Nimeri

The Cost of Saving on Skincare

Fellow Rylie Lillibridge

Turning Down the Volume on Hearing Damage

Fellow Heather Sherr

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02.01.2023 a woman with a backpack in the woods

Democratizing Nature Exposure for Better Health

What factors determine how we engage with nature? Childhood experiences, available time, and environmental settings may all be at play.

Guest Author Linda Powers Tomasso

01.13.2023 a woman smiling at the camera

Sharon Lavigne

Sharon Lavigne, an environmental justice activist from St. James Parish in Louisiana, founded Rise St. James, an organization focused on combating petrochemical companies in Cancer Alley.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

01.12.2023 a graph of different colored squares

Storm Surge

Hurricanes are causing worse and more expensive damage than ever before. High rates of coastal urbanization may be to blame.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

01.11.2023 a flooded neighborhood with trees and buildings

Stormy Weather

Bankruptcies and rate increases among housing insurers leave many residents without a safety net in the face of environmental disaster.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

12.06.2022 a graph of a number of individuals

Freaking Fracking

Living within two kilometers of a fracking site is associated with two to three times greater risk of developing leukemia, according to Pennsylvania data.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

11.23.2022 prison bars

Polluted Prisons

Do zip codes with prisons have higher toxic contamination than zip codes without prisons?

Fellow Abby Outterson

11.21.2022 worker takes a wastewater sample

The Wisdom of Wastewater

Wastewater sampling studies can detect how contagious a disease is in addition to tracking the presence of virus or bacteria in a community.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

11.01.2022 a pig lying in mud

Unequal Harms of Nearby Large Swine Farms

The association between industrial hog operations and gastrointestinal illness in rural eastern North Carolina highlights environmental injustices among Native American and Black communities.

Guest Author Arbor Quist

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