Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Marine plastic pollution – which has increased tenfold since 1980 – has already affected at least 267 species, “including 86% of marine turtles, 44% of seabirds and 43% of marine mammals,” the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reported in 2020.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The report , published by Industrious Labs, an environmental advocacy organization focused on decarbonizing heavy industry, looked at pollution and health data to estimate the total, facility-level, and state-level costs of the 17 coal-based steelmaking plants that are still in operation across the U.S., billion in health costs.

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Frontiers

JULY 5, 2023

Open access publisher Frontiers is participating in the One Sustainable Health for All Forum 2023 co-organized by the One Sustainable Health for All Foundation and the French Development Agency (AFD). COVID-19 highlighted the challenges of interconnected systems for health, which integrate health, food, water, energy, and ecosystems.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This population, like many agricultural workers in hot climates, is at increased risk of chronic kidney disease of unknown cause. Mortality has doubled over the past 20 years, sparking a public health exploration into the epidemic. Youre going to hear more about it, public health researcher Lee Newman, M.D.,

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Compounds released in these events can range from climate-warming methane to volatile organic compounds that increase cancer risks, like benzene or 1-3 butadiene. In addition to climate related concerns, recent studies have documented flares’ health impacts. billion in health risks and 710 premature deaths annually in the U.S.

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Gideon

MARCH 18, 2021

Changes in temperature and precipitation influence biotic and abiotic environments, disease vectors and hosts, and human behavior, including the amount of time spent outdoors (1). It is important to contact a health professional before attempting to remove a tick. e55-e55, 2001. Available: 10.1542/peds.108.3.e55 Available: 10.1289/ehp.124-a70

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Mokshda Kaul joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the clean energy transition and how policymakers and other leaders can avoid mistakes of the past. So I moved here for my PhD in 2020 and that was in the middle of the pandemic, by the way, which was quite jarring. Kaul, a Ph.D. Kaul, a Ph.D.

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