Environment Archives

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

Vanadium, Invisible Pollution, and Cancer Risk

Fellow Priyanka Athalye

Grass Is Always Greener

Fellow Sean Hagan

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09.17.2021 tank on culebra beach

Yo Soy Primero Culebrense

The environmental and social impacts of the US military, hurricanes and tourism on Culebra, a Puerto Rican archipelago, are lasting.

Fellow Devin O'Donnell

09.09.2021 site

Albeliz Santiago-Colón

On the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Public Health Post sat down with Albeliz Santiago-Colón, a researcher with the World Trade Center Health Program, to learn about the health impacts on survivors and responders of the attacks.

Fellow Devin O'Donnell

09.06.2021 article graphs

Superfund Siblings

Researchers compared outcomes between siblings conceived before or during Superfund cleanup to those who were conceived after cleanup was finished.

Fellow Sara Mar

09.03.2021 classroom heat map

Too Hot to Learn

Overheated classrooms negatively impact standardized test scores, and were worse for Black and Hispanic students than white students.

Fellow Devin O'Donnell

09.01.2021 CC Flowers

Catherine Coleman Flowers

Catherine Coleman Flowers spoke to PHP about the themes of her recent book, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.

Fellow Sara Mar

08.24.2021 coal

Kids and Coal Closures

Children living in Chicago zip codes closest to coal-fired power plants had more asthma-related emergency department visits than those living farther away.

Fellow Sara Mar

07.27.2021 child drawing the earth

Having Kids in a Changing Climate

Overconsumption, overpopulation, and uncertainty about the future of the planet were among the reasons cited in a study about people not wanting to have children because of climate change.

Guest Author Samantha White

07.14.2021 pesticide exposure map

Pesticide Peril

Pesticide exposure was up to three times higher in California census tracts with a majority Latinx population compared to those without a Latinx majority.

Fellow Devin O'Donnell

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