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How wildfires impact your health
Climate change makes our temperatures more extreme, resulting in fatal heat waves and droughts: conditions […]
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Higher estimated pesticide exposures linked to ALS risk
Every year, approximately 5,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), […]
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Should oil and gas companies be exempt from Pennsylvania’s hazardous waste laws?
PITTSBURGH—In the wake of growing concerns over the oil and gas industry’s handling of radioactive […]
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LISTEN: Pallavi Pant on decolonizing global air pollution research
Dr. Pallavi Pant joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss combatting […]
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Pittsburgh’s air was unhealthy to breathe for 57 days in 2020
PITTSBURGH—Air pollution in Pittsburgh reached unhealthy levels for 57 days—or nearly two months—in 2020, according […]
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Op-ed: California needs to quit ignoring the public health and climate cost of pesticides
It’s a pesticide called 1,3-Dichloropropene that’s commonly sold under the brand name Telone. And although […]
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The US falls behind most of the world in plastic pollution legislation
In recent years, countries across the globe have implemented laws to mitigate plastic production and […]
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EE.UU. está por debajo de la mayor parte del mundo en cuanto a legislación sobre contaminación por plásticos
En los últimos años, países de todo el mundo han puesto en marcha leyes para […]
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Peter Dykstra: Keeping score on the environment
This has been a banner year for made-up science: from horse-medicine COVID cure-alls to the […]
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Estamos vertiendo montones de productos químicos retardantes para combatir los incendios forestales. ¿Qué significa esto para la vida silvestre?
Cuando el incendio de Caldor se dirigió hacia el lago Tahoe azotado por la sequía […]