July 23, 2019
Stories about Health
July 16, 2019
Growing Group of Doctors Talk Climate With Their Patients
by Miro Korenha and Alexandra Patel When you visit your doctor it’s usually to remedy something that’s bothering you or a routine preventative visit, but during those visits has your doctor ever talked to you about climate change and how it might be...July 9, 2019
Trump Administration Makes Empty Promises on PFAS Pollution, Congress and States Taking Action
In 2018, then EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt promised to designate a toxic firefighting chemical called Per/Polyfluorinated Substances, also known as PFAS, as a hazardous substance that could be regulated, but since then has done nothing about the 610 sites in 43...July 1, 2019
120 Minutes of Nature Needed Each Week
A recent study dug into the question of how much nature does a person need to be healthy and the answer turns out to be 2 hours — not an insignificant number. The study in Nature’s Scientific Reports surveyed people about how they felt and how much time...June 11, 2019
Acting on Climate (Literally) Will Save Lives, It’s Science!
According to a new study in the journal Science Advances, meeting the Paris Climate Agreement’s goals of keeping the rise of global average temperatures to 1.5° C could substantially mitigate heat-related mortality in U.S. cities. This new study is one of the...June 4, 2019
Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Visualized
Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a trail of 150 petroleum factories creates a glaring backdrop of smokestacks behind the Mississippi River and a perpetual fog along the banks. Courtesy of its flat ground, an abundance of carbon-rich decay, and the Mississippi’s...May 26, 2019
Service Members Face Danger From More Than Enemy Fire
This Memorial Day we honor the military service of Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our nation. In April of 2018, the Department of Defense provided Congress a list of contaminated U.S. military bases — the document, according to Healthline,...May 20, 2019
EPA Cutting Funds for Studies of Kids Health
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), have for more than two decades sponsored a network of centers that study children’s environmental health from before birth, but now the EPA has...May 14, 2019
Jury Awards $2 Billion to Couple Suing Monsanto Over Roundup Use
A jury in California awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who sued Monsanto saying that exposure to the weed-killer Roundup caused them to contract cancer, including $55 million in “compensatory” damages to make them whole for their injuries, and $2...May 13, 2019