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The fossil fuel industry is disproportionately harming low-income and minority women: Report

Environmental Health News

From this, the group highlighted six issues that appeared most often in research associated with the fossil fuel industry: environmental racism, increased caretaking responsibilities, pollution, fertility and reproduction impacts, “man camps” and mental health effects. Similar to Canada, in the U.S.

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Can We Predict Our Ability to Conceive?

BU School of Public Health Blog

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. As climate change worsens, PRESTO researchers are also analyzing how the environment affects reproductive health.