EHN Originals

OreOluwa Badaki joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Health podcast to discuss her work as an educator around the world, and the importance of “cultural ways of knowing and being.” Badaki, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, is part of the current group of Agents of Change fellows.…

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Though frigid temperatures, snow storms, and COVID-19 hospitalizations are sweeping the U.S. now, spring—and hope—is on the horizon. This past week, my native New Jersey was favored with a couple of feet of snow after a nearly snow-less 2020. Atlanta, my home for most of the last 30 years, has totaled about two feet in…

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published at Le Monde and is republished here with permission. The Endocrine Society, a society of 18,000 members including researchers and clinicians specializing in the hormonal system, is highly critical of a new European Food Safety Authority draft report on the unusual effects of some chemicals. According to the…

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Europe’s food safety regulators have an opportunity to bring a cleaner, safer future to the health of 450 million people, but that effort is being thwarted by a too-cozy relationship with the global chemical industry. That’s why EHN.org today is republishing an important report from Le Monde about the European Food Safety Authority, the continent’s…

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Recent research in aquaculture, the farming of fish and other marine organisms, reveals a growing concern: farmed fish contaminated with microplastic particles by way of their feed. These studies are troubling because they show that farmed fish are directly being fed plastics, which can impact their health and nutritional value. Microplastics could also contaminate people…

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A new landmark global review of economics and biodiversity finds our global economies are “embedded within nature,” and the widespread failure to recognize that truth endangers our livelihoods, well-being, and the prosperity of future generations. The Dasgupta Review was commissioned by the United Kingdom’s HM Treasury and was led by economist and professor Sir Partha…

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As we gradually work our way out of the pandemic with the development and distribution of vaccines, what does our evolving success tell us about the possibilities of resolving the climate change crisis? Has this crisis been a warm-up on what to do—and not do—in the face of a global climate emergency? The answer is…

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I’ve been thinking about how the precarious state of American politics will guide climate policy. It looks like the key to it all is understanding West Virginia politics. And I’m not sure anyone, anywhere, understands West Virginia politics. Or maybe it’s just me, because West Virginia politics surely beats the heck out of me. Because…

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The voice of environmental justice, once lonely in the wilderness of systemic racism, is growling like a tiger and prowling like a panther in the halls of power, helping shape President Biden’s cabinet with nominees pledging to restore environmental and public health protections dismantled by the previous administration. Flexing its muscle, the environmental justice movement…

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“I never met a Kentuckian who wasn’t either thinking about going home or actually going home.”- Kentucky Senator A.B “Happy” Chandler. There is nothing quite like the beauty and comfort I find in my home state of Kentucky: from the state’s signature bluegrass and stunning Red River Gorge canyons to the “Bourbon Capital of the…

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