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Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025

Association of Health Care Journalists

According to a report by the National Centre for Environmental Health , saltwater in Hilton Head, North Carolina, is encroaching at a rate of 400 feet per year from the Atlantic Ocean into freshwater drinking systems. Health equity. Saltwater intrusion into water supplies. Infrastructure damage.

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Beyond Bleach — The Hidden Chemical Cocktail in Your Grocery Store Chicken

Mercola

Now add to that a processing line moving at breakneck speed, where proper sanitation becomes more wish than reality. Those chemical treatments aren't just about sanitizing they're part of a process that quite literally waters down your dinner. It is time to question whether industrial efficiency has come at too high of a cost.

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Ghee Tested for Toxic Phthalates — Buying Guide

Mercola

Disclosure: This consumer study is released in partnership with Environmental Health News. Donations were provided by Environmental Health News and Mamavation community members. You can also give a tax-deductible donation to our consumer studies here through Environmental Health Sciences.

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UNC Charlotte chemist develops purification system that removes PFAS

NC Health News

The materials developed in Polers lab will have to be certified by the National Sanitation Foundation. And then, when we regenerate it, we have maybe one liter of highly contaminated regenerate that can then be very easily destroyed by other types of technologies. Polers idea is that consumers would initially buy two cartridges.

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Global study finds rodent boom linked to climate change in New York City and beyond

HEALTHBEAT

Its 19 authors hailed from all over the world and represented a variety of fields, including biology, environmental health, and pest control. Mayor Eric Adams has made the war on rats a central part of his administrations strategy, with his Department of Sanitation moving ahead with containerization of trash in the city.

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Tallow and Beef Suet Tested for Toxic Phthalates

Mercola

Disclosure: This consumer study is released in partnership with Environmental Health News. Donations were provided by Environmental Health News and Mamavation community members. You can also give a tax-deductible donation to our consumer studies here through Environmental Health Sciences.

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Here’s what we all should learn from that scary tampon study

Association of Health Care Journalists

The CDC report notes that all four hospitals used the same brand of ice machine, filters and sanitizing products. The CDC recently published a report on 23 new cases — in addition to 23 known previous ones — of bacterial infections with Burkholderia multivorans from the contained water and ice from ice machines at four different hospitals.