Environmental Health

The wealthy are hoarding livable homes as climate change makes land uninhabitable

How climate change floods, boils, and leaves gentrification in its wake

A version of this article originally appeared on Eos

Cheap sensors transmit missing air quality data in African cities

Low-cost sensors in Kinshasa and Brazzaville provide much-needed data that could help save lives

Air quality monitors mounted on public transit see pollution other sensors miss

Researchers in Salt Lake City are using light rail trains to measure the city's air pollution

Lead poisoning hits low-income children harder than their affluent neighbors

Children living in poverty suffer greater cognitive and physical effects from lead exposure than children from richer families, even if they live in the same area

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Why don't Americans care about chemicals?

We need chemicals for daily life, but seem to feel 'apocalypse fatigue' around their dangers

Climate change harms everyone's health. Yes, even yours.

No one is safe from global increases in extreme weather, disease, and injury