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Environmental Health News reporter Kristina Marusic is one of five people to receive a 2023 Child Health Advocate Award from the Children’s Environmental Health Network, a national nonprofit a dedicated to protecting children from environmental hazards. The annual awards honor outstanding children’s environmental health advocates in policy, science, community organizing, youth leadership, and media for…

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When people think of environmental activism and health, we often think of shaping policies: protecting groundwater from over-pumping; halting strip-mining and clearcutting; removing dams from salmon streams. However, one important element of environmental health often gets missed: kids’ relationship with the natural world. This is why early childhood outdoor-based environmental education must play a larger…

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It was March 2022, and with my best friend’s baby shower approaching, I knew the gift I wanted to make: a stuffed whale or two. My friend loves whales and I love sewing. The mother-to-be received the plush cetaceans with delight, but as I’d worked, my own satisfaction waned. Most children’s toys have a limited…

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In early July I received the news that I had joined the ranks of TED iconoclasts: a TEDx talk that I gave several months before had been censored by TED, despite a water-tight list of scientific references I provided them with to back up every claim. The talk was on environmental medicine and elaborated five…

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PITTSBURGH — The largest natural gas-producing counties in Appalachia have had worse economic outcomes than the rest of the region and the nation since the start of the region’s fracking boom, according to a new report. In the early days of the Marcellus Shale boom, the natural gas industry and policymakers promised that the industry…

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Comer durante una semana una dieta orgánica reduce los niveles del glifosato en la orina de mujeres embarazadas, de acuerdo con un estudio publicado en julio en Environmental Health Perspectives. En promedio, la reducción fue de entre el 25 y el 30%, y alcanzó hasta un 43% después de que los investigadores excluyeran a las…

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Just one week of an organic diet effectively reduces levels of the herbicide glyphosate in pregnant women’s urine, according to a study published in July in Environmental Health Perspectives. The average reduction ranged from 25% to 30% and rose to 43% after the researchers excluded participants who did not perfectly comply with an all-organic diet.…

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Project Puffin is celebrating its 50th anniversary of launching the world’s first successful restoration of a seabird to islands where humans killed them off. As co-author of two books on the project, it is humorous how some research methods remain timelessly inelegant. For instance, there is the practice called “grubbing.” Interns still twist themselves into…

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This story was originally published in KFF Health News and is republished here with permission. Gary Flook served in the Air Force for 37 years, as a firefighter at the now-closed Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois and the former Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, where he regularly trained with aqueous film forming foam,…

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HOUSTON — On June 27 Texas City residents received a notice to shelter in place due to a leak of sulfur dioxide from the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery. In order to receive the alert, residents had to preregister for the city’s opt-in emergency alert system or check the social media of local government agencies. With…

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