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Our mothers’ gifts: Readers respond
You are an engaged bunch! We asked for one gift – one “big lesson” – your mother gave you that you cherish today, and you offered up examples of grace, beauty, toughness and humor. I’m grateful – and speechless – reading your responses. We’ve printed a selection, and I hope they leave you as touched…
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A corpse in a barrel in a drying reservoir
A grim story about human remains found in a barrel exposed by the receding shoreline of Nevada’s Lake Mead caught my eye this past week. For me, it had all the elements: I grew up in a North Jersey town known for housing a few Mafia celebs, like Willie Moretti, the real-life inspiration for The…
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Lessons from our mothers
What’s one gift you cherish from your mother? We want your story. It’s Mother’s Day Sunday, and we want to hear about the one gift you’ve received from your mother and carry with you today. Drop your one lesson here – make it one lesson, one sentence – and we’ll share the most illuminative ones…
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Green chemistry startup wins “world changing idea” award
Sudoc, a green chemistry company co-founded by Pete Myers to reduce and replace harmful chemicals in many different types of products, won the On the Rise category of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards. Myers is the chief scientist and founder of Environmental Health Sciences, which publishes EHN.org. The annual awards highlight companies and…
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“Green” children’s products not always PFAS-free, warns new study
PFAS are finding their way into “green” and “nontoxic” products, especially waterproof products marketed toward children and adolescents, according to new research. The new study, published today in Environmental Science & Technology, shows that some children’s products with “green” or “nontoxic” labeling contain PFAS, which stands for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances—a group of toxic chemicals…
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LISTEN: El’gin Avila on workers’ health and the gig economy
El’gin Avila joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss how the gig economy has upended what we think of workers’ health and rights. Avila is a Ph.D. student studying industrial hygiene at the University of Minnesota, founder of Equitable Health Solutions, director of Environmental and Occupational Health & Equity at the…
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Q&A: How peanuts’ popularity spurred slavery and upended agriculture
Award-winning journalist Jori Lewis, a former EHN contributor and researcher based in Dakar, Senegal, has just published Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop that Changed History. Lewis presents 19th-century Senegal at a time of turmoil. She explores how French colonialism and demand for peanut oil in Europe created a peanut…
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Peter Dykstra: Ukraine and nukes
This past week was the 36th anniversary of one of the two worst nuclear power disasters in history. A fire in Reactor Four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Complex kicked off a series human errors and mechanical failures leading to an explosion and a core meltdown at the site just north of Kyiv in the then-Soviet…
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LISTEN: Rupa Marya and Raj Patel on “deep medicine”
Dr. Rupa Marya and Dr. Raj Patel join the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to talk about how practitioners of modern medicine and public health are trained to be technicians rather than healers. Senior Agents of Change fellow Kartik Amarnath spoke with Marya and Patel, who are authors of the book Inflamed: Deep…
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Chemicals in everyday products are spurring obesity, warns a new review
Many years ago, endocrinologist and medical doctor Robert Lustig had a patient, a 5-year-old girl, who was suffering from obesity. Unable to determine the cause of her obesity, Lustig scanned her for tumors. The culprit was not a tumor, nor the girl’s diet, exercise, or family history. Rather, it was her body wash, said Lustig,a…
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