Stories tagged "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 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...

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...

January 18, 2019

Commission Calls for Global Agricultural Revolution

As if we needed another reason to eat right, a new study published Wednesday found that climate mitigation and human health are deeply intertwined. According to a global commission convened by the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, In order to meaningfully reduce...

January 6, 2019

NYT Exposé: Health Risks on the Rise Due to Regulatory Rollbacks

The New York Times published a major investigation over the holidays explaining the real-life impacts of the Trump Administration’s environmental regulation rollbacks and reversals by telling the stories of agricultural workers in California sickened by looser...