public health
After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought
By Victoria St. Martin
To Help Stop Malaria’s Spread, CDC Researchers Create a Test to Find a Mosquito That Is Flourishing Thanks to Climate Change
By Victoria St. Martin
Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills
By Lisa Sorg
As Another Hot Summer Approaches, 80 New York City Neighborhoods Ranked Highly Vulnerable to Heat
By Alastair Lee Bitsóí
Salt in the Womb: How Rising Seas Erode Reproductive Health
By Zoya Teirstein and Mahadi Al Hasnat, Grist
To Incinerate Or Not To Incinerate: Maryland Hospitals Grapple With Question With Big Public Health Implications
By Aman Azhar
Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up
By Liza Gross
Air Pollution Could Potentially Exacerbate Menopause Symptoms, Study Says
By Gina Jiménez
More Than a Third of All Americans Live in Communities with ‘Hazardous’ Air, Lung Association Finds
By Victoria St. Martin
California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross
Forever Chemicals From a Forever Fire
By Lee Hedgepeth
Flaring and Venting at Industrial Plants Causes Roughly Two Premature Deaths Each Day, a New Study Finds
By Victoria St. Martin
Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine
By Liza Gross
In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy
By Kiley Bense, Victoria St. Martin
A Gas Tanker Crashed in Birmingham and Spilled 2,100 Gallons Into Nearby Village Creek. Who Is Responsible?
By Lee Hedgepeth
Louisiana’s Toxic Air Is Linked to Low-Weight and Pre-Term Births
Jessica Kutz, The 19th
