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Coronavirus has city dwellers heading for the hills. Here’s why they should stay put.
It makes sense that city dwellers are itching to flee urban areas, but there are a number of reasons why they should suppress that urge, and climate change is one of them.
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Puerto Rico faces another disaster: The coronavirus pandemic
The island’s health infrastructure has not yet recovered from Hurricane Maria and more recent environmental disasters.
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One more way the world wasn’t prepared for coronavirus: Air pollution
The connections between dirty air and the virus.
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DDT’s toxic legacy could span three generations
Scientists have struggled to link DDT and cancer. Then a library of frozen blood changed everything.
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Did DDT play a role in my family’s cancers?
These four sisters all developed breast cancer, despite having no genetic markers for the illness. Was something in their environment responsible? One of their daughters is looking at the once widely-used insecticide DDT as the possible culprit.
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Report: Utilities are less likely to replace lead pipes in low-income communities of color
"If a program primarily benefits those with money, you’re going to have an environmental justice problem."
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Pandemic? Silent killer? We may need to talk differently about air pollution.
Menacing nicknames are no match for a good story.
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Warming oceans could lure the world’s fisheries into uncharted waters
How will tropical nations cope when their fish move to cooler waters?
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Researchers blast ‘forever chemicals’ into oblivion with plasma
Dubbed “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down over time, now scientists like Sales are racing to figure out how to clean PFAS up.
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This tiny but mighty California bureau is taking on polluters
For two years, California's Bureau of Environmental Justice has pursued a singular focus: protecting vulnerable communities from pollution and contamination.
