Tag: Public health
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...
Wildfire smoke is becoming a nationwide health threat
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The impacts of recent forest fires in California reach well beyond the burned areas. Smoke from the Camp...
3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination...
Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer? Trial highlights the difficulty of proving...
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, University of Connecticut
Does glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma? This question is at...
The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid
Jonathan Buonocore, Harvard University
New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of...
The urgency of curbing pollution from ships, explained
James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology and James J Corbett, University of Delaware
The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that regulates global...
Garbage in, garbage out: Incinerating trash is not an effective way...
Ana Baptista, The New School
U.S. cities have been burning municipal solid waste since the 1880s. For the first century, it was a way to...
Why is there so little research on guns in the US?...
Lacey Wallace, Pennsylvania State University
On Valentine’s Day, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He killed 17...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
