Environment Archives

Toxic Taps: The Health Crisis Flowing Through America’s Pipes

Fellow Aidan Stotz

The Fast Fashion Footprint: Cheap Clothes, Costly Consequences

Fellow Mallika Chimpiri

The Story of Surgical Trash

Guest Author Noe Copley-Woods

When The Dust Settles: Health Costs of Dust Storms

Fellow Rowena Lindsay

Under-Monitored, Over-Exposed

Fellow Rowena Lindsay

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11.06.2017 Peoples Climate March 2017

Climate Disease and Kidney Injustice

In areas of Central America there is an extraordinary Chronic Kidney Disease epidemic. Some have proposed the disease be named heat stress nephropathy. It has been suggested that the cause is climate change.

Guest Author Madeleine K. Scammell

11.02.2017 a map of europe with different colored areas

There’s No Escaping Climate Change

A recent study in the Lancet finds two out of three Europeans could be affected by weather-related disasters by 2071.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

10.27.2017 Graph showing rising sea levels since 1993

The Imminent Danger of Rising Sea Levels to Coastal Communities

NASA data shows a trend in rising sea levels that represents an imminent danger to coastal communities globally.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.11.2017 Tree on top of a house on Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy

Mortality Following Hurricane Sandy

Understanding the patterns of health effects of destructive storms, especially deaths, are key to developing federal and state plans to mitigate against them. Support services may be needed for at least the quarter following a storm.

Guest Authors Soyeon Kim, Amy Davidow

10.10.2017 Tweets on Puerto Rico by President Donald Trump

Puerto Rico: In Need of Real Actions, not Tweets

Despair, anxiety, sadness, anger, frustration, desolation... a few of the emotions felt by Paola Sepulveda-Miranda while waiting for news of her family before and after Hurricane Maria's destruction of Puerto.

Guest Author Paola Sepulveda-Miranda

09.19.2017 Mist rising off the Cape Fear River

Contaminated Water

The waterproof and nonstick qualities of the PFASs lend themselves well for use in consumer products such as nonstick pans, outdoor clothing, and firefighting foam. But research has linked PFASs to cancer, thyroid disease, and immune suppression.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

08.10.2017 smoke stacks of smoke coming out of a factory

The Social Cost of Carbon

Called "the most important figure you’ve never heard of,” the social cost of carbon (SCC) is a statistic used by federal agencies to estimate the environmental costs and social benefits of proposed regulations. President Trump has called for its review.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

07.17.2017 Pollution over the city in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the second most polluted city in the world

Fighting Pollution with Open Data

Air pollution is responsible for one out of every eight deaths on the planet. OpenAQ uses the power of open data as a convening force to connect a global community on air pollution research. Read three ways the public health community can help.

Guest Author Christa Hasenkopf

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