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What is environmental health?
Examining a massive influence on our health: the environment.
We've been reporting on environmental health for 20 years. But what is environmental health? You've got questions, and we have answers.
Anna Morgan-Hayes: We must create rural resilience as we face rough roads ahead
As I contemplated the recent summer burn bans, I worried that perhaps my children will never remember a summer night of roasted marshmallows over a roaring campfire.
Vietnam's children and the fear of climate change
Opinion: to truly fight climate change, we need to set our sights higher
Fracking may alter fat cells: Study
A look at chemicals commonly found in fracking wastewater finds sign that they are influencing cell growth.
Chemicals released by fracking may increase the size and amount of fat cells, even at low concentrations often released into the environment, according to a new study released today.
Premature birth rates drop in California after coal and oil plants shut down
Within a year of eight coal- and oil-fired power plant retirements, the rate of preterm births in mothers living close by dropped, finds new study on air pollution.