Tag: Public health
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...
US life expectancy just dropped for the second year in a...
David Bishai, Johns Hopkins University
U.S. gross domestic product is at an all-time high. U.S. life expectancy is not.
Life expectancy has fallen for...
Exposure to wildfire smoke: 5 questions answered
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Editor’s note: Wildfires once again are raging in California – this time in the Los Angeles area, where...
Scientist at work: Measuring public health impacts after disasters
Scientist at work: Measuring public health impacts after disasters
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Rich American seniors are getting healthier, leaving the poor behind
Matthew A. Davis, University of Michigan and Kenneth Langa, University of Michigan
The U.S. has seen substantial improvements in life expectancy over the past century,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
