EHN Originals

Dicen que las apariencias no lo son todo, pero son algo. Desde niña lo sé en mis entrañas. Llegué a la fiesta familiar en Nogales, Arizona, en mi camioneta de 18 años la tarde de un domingo a finales de 2022. Mi camioneta nunca me falla. Separados por la pandemia, no había visto a mi…

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They say looks aren’t everything, but they’re something. Since I was a young girl, I knew this in my gut. I made it to the family party in Nogales, Arizona, in my 18-year-old station wagon on a Sunday afternoon in late 2022. My station wagon never fails me. Separated by the pandemic, I had not…

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My window into global warming ruining a rite of summer came 16 years ago. I was flat on my back on blankets, under the stars in the middle of the night at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. At 7,214 feet and more than a half mile above Yosemite Valley, this was a perfect place…

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PITTSBURGH— Environmental Health News reporter Kristina Marusic joined NPR’s “Living on Earth” to discuss the links between rising cancer rates and cancer-causing chemicals in the environment. In a two-part interview, Marusic discussed her new book, A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention with host Steve Curwood. During the interview, she shared stories…

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A three-part series by Environmental Health News and palabra, a multimedia platform of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, on pesticide use in California finds that rural communities of color and farmworkers are disproportionately exposed to some of the most dangerous chemicals used in agriculture. Our reporting also highlights how communities most at risk of…

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In 2013, Melanie had moved to a small town in North Carolina, where she was working toward buying an apothecary and establishing her own natural medicine practice, when her father died of heart failure associated with COPD. When she returned to Clairton for his funeral, she planned to help handle his estate and spend some…

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Welcome to summer, folks — it’s time again for our annual summer reading list! Members of our staff have reviewed some of their favorite books to help you find your summer read. Whether you’re looking for a classic epic or inspirational poetry, we have you covered. Enjoy the list, enjoy summer and, as always, we’d…

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The year is only half done and the United States has already been enveloped by acrid orange skies in the East, battered by winter rains and floods in California, seared by record winter temperatures in the South, soaked by a record 26-inch April deluge in Fort Lauderdale, and broiled by record spring heat in the…

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About a decade ago, researchers at the German Environment Agency noticed a hole in chemical regulation. There was lots of talk about protecting people from chemicals that build up in the human body. “But what is there that protects water?” Sarah Hale, an environmental chemist from the German Water Center, remembers discussing with colleagues. Questions…

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Dr. Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss why we must advocate for better workplace conditions for the people who grow our food. Iglesias-Ríos, researcher at the University of Michigan and a co-investigator of the Michigan Farmworker Project, also talks about being raised by two strong women, her winding…

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