Climate Health
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![Workers stand in front of a large cylinder building filling the sky with smoke.]()
![Workers stand in front of a large cylinder building filling the sky with smoke.]()
Study: Every single country is failing the WHO’s new air quality standards
Just 3 percent of the world's cities had an average air quality reading that met WHO standards in 2021.
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![Two people, one with a radio, are silhouetted against an orange and grey sky.]()
![Two people, one with a radio, are silhouetted against an orange and grey sky.]()
For mental health, landmark climate report spells disaster
For the first time, the IPCC recognized what a warming world means for anxiety, trauma, and suicide.
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Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease
The IPCC's latest climate report warns governments to prepare as diseases move into new regions.
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Who’s in charge of fixing the environment in eastern Oklahoma?
How a Supreme Court win for tribal sovereignty could have ripple effects on environmental protections across the country.
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![Two men in white hazmat suits water a bare plot of soil.]()
![Two men in white hazmat suits water a bare plot of soil.]()
A tribe in Maine is using hemp to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the soil
Can it work for PFAS-contaminated farms?
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![Two 18-wheeler trucks pass through a neighborhood below an orange sky with a basketball hoop in the foreground.]()
![Two 18-wheeler trucks pass through a neighborhood below an orange sky with a basketball hoop in the foreground.]()
The Biden administration is updating truck pollution standards
"We really should have been doing this yesterday"
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![White particles in a swirling cloud above the earth on dark blue background]()
There’s an invisible ecosystem in the air — and climate change is disrupting it
New research shows how warmer temperatures could push atmospheric pathogens into new areas.
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The Biden administration is spending billions to clean up toxic abandoned coal mines
But it still isn't enough.
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![Medium shot of cattle in pen on farm on summer morning.]()
There are ‘forever chemicals’ in beef now
How toxic PFAS made their way from sewage to fertilizer to beef in Michigan.
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Biden administration moves to restore mercury rules for power plants weakened under Trump
EPA reaffirmed its authority to regulate mercury and other hazardous air pollutants amid push to curb power plant emissions.
