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From John Prine to Childish Gambino, here are some of the most notable environmental songs of the past few decades (please excuse the heavy 1970’s bias — these were my formative years, and an era when protest songs ran amok). Bo Diddley: “Pollution” Bo Diddley, he of the smokin’ 1950’s guitar, sang that he wore…

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On fertility, we are running out of time. And the growing number of plastics in our lives are accelerating the crunch. That’s the core message in a pair of webinars this week on humanity’s infertility crisis, centered around Tuesday’s publication of “Count Down,” by reproductive health expert Dr. Shanna Swan. Worldwide, sperm counts have declined…

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Your hormones have been hijacked. Your body’s astonishing, finely calibrated signal system – a system that controls everything from your weight to your fertility to your mood – has been scrambled by loosely regulated chemicals manufacturers use in a myriad of ways including in consumer products. These hijackers – known to scientists as “endocrine-disrupting chemicals”…

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Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book “Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race” by EHS adjunct scientist Shanna Swan, PhD. The book is available for sale through most major retailers. The drop heard round…

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Fertility issues are on the rise, and new literature points to ways that your environment may be part of the problem. We’ve rounded up some changes you can make in your life to promote a healthy reproductive system. Infertility and environmental health: the facts Sperm count is declining steeply, significantly, and continuously in Western countries,…

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EHN senior editor Brian Bienkowski talks to Dr. Shanna H. Swan—one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists—about her new book, Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race. Swan, a professor of environmental medicine and public health…

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Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book “Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race” by EHN adjunct scientist Shanna Swan, PhD. The book is available for sale through most major retailers. Dismaying biological realities It’s hardly…

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Krystal Vasquez joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Health podcast to discuss her work as a chemist teasing out the big impacts from tiny compounds, and the often-neglected intersection of pollution and people with disabilities. Vasquez, a Ph.D. candidate at California Institute of Technology, talks about the “puzzle” of atmospheric chemistry, her work advocating…

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History will record that Abraham Browning first christened New Jersey “The Garden State” in 1876. But if such hokey nicknames had been distributed at any point in the last 40 years, my ancestral home might be The Superfund State. With roughly 150 toxic waste sites and only 35 deemed adequately cleaned up, Jersey is outpacing…

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Six women in Congress are demanding federal regulators take steps to remove phthalates and other hormone-hijacking chemicals from medical products, especially IV bags. The U.S. has made “minimal progress” in reducing harmful exposures in the United States over the past 20 years—even as alternatives become available and other jurisdictions, notably Europe and California, take steps…

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