Tag: Public health
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...
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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EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
