environmental health Archives

Getting a handle on the ‘forever chemicals’ in plastics

Environment

Olivia Gieger • September 5, 2024

What to know about how PFAS are affecting your body

Cardboard sign propped up against a building that reads "Idle? Engine off. Children Breathing." With a drawing of a flower with a frown. Sign is propped up near a line of traffic.

Traffic pollution increases risk for irregular and rapid heart rhythm

Health

Delaney Dryfoos • November 22, 2021

Long-term exposure to car fumes have lasting effects on heart health

Two pictures of the same rocky, high desert view side-by-side. On the left, the sky is blue and clear. On the right the air is yellow with smoke, visibility is reduced, and the sky is grey.

A flawed number that saves lives

Environment

Lauren Leffer • November 25, 2020

Millions of people rely on the Air Quality Index, but experts say it’s a rough measure at best

Text of "Green New Deal" overlaid over a hand-drawn picture of trees, a mountain to the left, and a bird flying in the sky.

Can the Green New Deal overcome the New Deal’s legacy of racism?

Video

Curtis Segarra and Lili Pike • April 3, 2020

The Green New Deal draws inspiration from Roosevelt’s sweeping reforms of the 1930s, but today’s policymakers are trying to find more equitable solutions to the climate crisis

Clean-up chemical at the BP Oil Spill tied to health problems

Environment

Will Sullivan • November 8, 2017

Scientists link a chemical frequently used to disperse spilled oil to wheezing, rashes and burning eyes in the recovery workers following the country's largest-ever spill.