NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit provided Helping Hand, which offers medical services to low-income and uninsured residents of Lee and Harnett counties, a road map for preparing the staff and its patients for storms and other climate catastrophes.” Chan School of Public Health.

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A new research center at the University of California, San Francisco will study how corporations manipulate science and regulation to downplay health risks from chemicals, fossil fuels, and ultra-processed foods. Liza Gross reports for Inside Climate News.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As people from around the world are gathering in New York for the UN-sponsored Climate Week, it is past time the world focused on the threats to climate from plastics. For decades the fossil fuel industry has rightly been a target for climate action. They believe their future is plastics. A study from the U.S.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Its been five years since the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program launched, and at a recent retreat gathering the leadership team reflected on what weve learned and what environmental issues were watching closely as we near 2025. Listen below to our discussion and subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or Spotify.

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Exploring Health

MARCH 24, 2025

Science does not yet have the answer as to why individuals can acquire allergies after living decades without, but one theory involves climate change. Environmental and external factors are shifting more than ever before, causing allergy season to begin earlier and last longer than standard, particularly in certain locations.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 9, 2025

The wildfire crisis in California is not just an environmental disaster but a significant public health emergency with immediate and long-term consequences. The most immediate concern for health journalists covering this crisis is the impact of wildfire smoke on human health. As of Jan. micrometers or smaller (PM2.5)

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

supporting tribes and states and local governments in solving some of our most complex health problems, responding to emergencies to make sure the most vulnerable communities receive the help they need, and working to make sure the federal government serves everyone in our country.

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

New York City is getting rattier, thanks to climate change. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, is the first of its kind to use data to demonstrate the connection between climate change and rats. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Secretary of Health and Human Services on Wednesday largely focused on his vaccine stance and conflicts of interest, while his environmental positions, critical for public health, were barely addressed. Keerti Gopal reports for Inside Climate News. Key quote: I believe climate change is existential.

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

AI-powered chatbots suggest modest tweaks to climate policy rather than systemic changes, reinforcing the status quo, a new study finds. In short: Researchers analyzed responses from four AI chatbots to questions about nine environmental issues and found they consistently proposed incremental solutions over radical change.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

The final global plastics treaty, which stalled during talks last week, needs to address chemicals used throughout the life cycle of plastics, some of which significantly reduce our fertility and impair our health, in order to truly confront the full scope of the crisis. These include both intentionally and unintentionally added substances.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Meanwhile, environmentalists and environmental justice organizations tend to view these provisions as slowing the transition, affecting environmental and climate justice goals. The growing rift between union and environmental justice advocates In 2019, New York passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Laura Diaz joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss the intersection of social and environmental stressors on children’s health. It had it was there that I met Karna Wong, and she's a faculty at Sonoma State University, and she absolutely changed my life. Laura Diaz I'm doing okay.

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Black Health Matters

JANUARY 10, 2025

Climate crises are ravaging the nation, causing and amplifying severe health challenges. Some residents attempted to protect their homes by exposing themselves to air pollutants and other potential health risks. These crises can affect the quality of ones mental health. That is your sense of stability.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The absence of an international scientific body that evaluates available evidence, like the IPCC does for climate change or IPBES for biodiversity, has created a fragmented research landscape for chemical pollution. Additionally, those climate-fueled environmental changes can alter the toxicity of chemicals.

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UK Health Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

My team’s job is to identify and monitor the spread of vectors (typically mosquitoes and ticks) in the UK and assess the risk of vector-borne diseases to public health. This mosquito has been of increasing concern to public health officials across Europe and is listed as one of the top 100 invasive species in the world.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Royal College of Emergency Medicines GreenED initiative suggests sustainable actions that all hospital staff can take to help tackle climate change and support health.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Climate change is making us sick and the healthcare system is exacerbating the problem. But new strategies suggest its possible to clean up our act.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Because of the health risks, swimming hasn’t been legal in the Anacostia for more than half a century. Climate change is causing more intense rainstorms in Washington, so even after construction is complete in 2030, Wone said, untreated stormwater will be discharged into the river, though much less frequently.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Amy Green reports for Inside Climate News. In short: The National Academies recommend deeper collaboration with Florida's Miccosukee and Seminole tribes in the $21 billion Everglades restoration project, emphasizing their role as environmental stewards.

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Environmental Health News

MARCH 20, 2025

Edelman, the worlds largest public relations agency, is in talks to support the upcoming UN climate summit in Brazil despite its previous work with a trade group accused of pushing for weaker Amazon protections. Key quote: Edelmans conflicts of interest at a climate conference are almost too many to count.

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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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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Climate change is only making matters worse as 70% of prisons are experiencing worse temperature extremes than before. Further, the lack of universal policies in state or federal prisons for responding to climate hazards, such as hurricanes and wildfires, makes it hard to protect those who live in them.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Laura Diaz on how social and environmental stress impact childrens health And yet, most of our work at Partners for Equity and Research (the name of our environmental justice hub at Sonoma State University) has been done free of charge.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Liliana Sierra Castillo on blue justice However, after listening to the voices of small-scale fishing communities in Mexico, Ive come to question the expansion of aquaculture and the Blue Economy as a whole.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This change addresses longstanding legal obstacles that held volunteers responsible for pre-existing pollution, despite their lack of involvement in the original contamination. Abandoned mines have polluted about 40% of Western rivers and streams, with cleanup costs estimated at $50 billion.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Goldman, who is also BMC’s medical director of climate and sustainability, said hospital screening questionnaires show thousands of patients like Polk struggle to pay their utility bills. ” This article is from a partnership that includes WBUR , NPR , and KFF Health News. Learn more about KFF.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Ufuoma Ovienmhada joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss environmental injustice at prisons across the U.S. The Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast is a biweekly podcast featuring the stories and big ideas from past and present fellows, as well as others in the field.

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APRIL 4, 2025

director of Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help Why this matters: Factory farm air pollution is a serious but underregulated health threat, linked to asthma, respiratory illness, and mental health conditions.For communities buried in the stink of Big Ag, this little dust test could be a breath of fresh air and a shot at justice.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In an interview, Morales Blanco, the daughter of a fisherman, details her fight to stop fracking in Puerto Wilches and nationwide, her struggles with mental health following years of persistent threats and violence, and the lack of recognition and institutional support available to environmental leaders. Our mindset changed.

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Frontiers

MARCH 23, 2023

Worldwide, human health is now better than ever before. However, all of these improvements in human health have come at a cost: the planet’s health. Most of these health improvements started in the Anthropocene — a geological epoch defined by human influence.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Kristoffer Tigue reports for Inside Climate News. A recent Enbridge oil spill in Wisconsin has intensified concerns about the safety of the companys Line 5 pipeline project, despite state assurances of minimal risk. The spill occurred just days before state officials approved permits for the controversial Line 5 project.

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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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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 8, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. The New York City Health Department has identified West Nile virus in mosquitoes throughout the city, and there’s growing concern about cases of dengue, another mosquito-borne disease, among travelers returning to New York.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Dan Gearino reports for Inside Climate News. Rooftop solar adoption in the U.S. is expanding beyond wealthier households, with more middle- and low-income families benefiting from this renewable energy source. In short: The median household income for new rooftop solar users dropped to $115,000 in 2023, down from $141,000 in 2010.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

That’s more of a spot check, as Lisa Gill , a health and medicine investigative reporter at Consumer Reports, told me. That’s not because it would harm the companies named — it’s because it could distract from the larger public health issue that might (emphasis on “might”) exist here and the need for further research to find out. “It

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