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Meet the scientist connecting the dots between air pollution and dementia
Grist chats with writer and neuropsychologist Aaron Reuben about dirty air, brain disease, and environmental justice.
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Examination: Heat, carbon dioxide, cognition, and productivity
Have you been studying?
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Mountaintop removal country’s mental health crisis
In Central Appalachia, areas closer to surface mining operations appear to be associated with higher rates of clinical depression. Why?
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Hunting for the neuroscience of heat and violence
Economists and psychologists tell us that increased temperatures can drive conflict. Is there any brain science here?
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Here’s yet another way that Amazon sucks
The e-commerce giant and other speedy deliverers are creating mountains of waste.
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This database could help end animal testing — if only scientists had access to it
A legal battle stands in the way of easily accessible health data on nearly 10,000 industrial chemicals.
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Climate activists and pipeline protesters turn to civil disobedience in the Northeast
Activists who tried to block work on a gas pipeline will argue in court that their actions were necessary to protect humanity from climate change.
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Huge spike in methane emissions tied to the U.S.
There's been a spike in global methane emissions -- and fracking in the U.S. may be largely to blame.
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150,000 penguins have disappeared in Antarctica. Thanks, climate change!
As the planet warms and ice continues to melt, this kind of thing could become commonplace.
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A bogus theory connecting Zika virus to Monsanto could give mosquitoes a boost
Protecting actual people from mosquitoes should take priority over crediting imaginary Monsanto rumors.
