…learned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had cited its owner, Gopher Resource, as a significant lead polluter. “It turns out the EPA had issued a report looking at all the…
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…either do well because they’ve been able to mitigate and recover, or they leave,” says co-author Tracy Buchman, an assistant professor of occupational and environmental safety at the University of…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email If newsrooms want climate science skeptics to read and share news about climate change, researcher Renita Coleman recommends they do this: Leave the terms…
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…up a small fraction of the roughly 261 million light-duty vehicles, including motorcycles, on U.S. roads. The Environmental Protection Agency defines light-duty vehicles as those weighing less than 8,500 pounds….
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…to think that the water coming out of their tap is treated and clean and safe to drink,” says author Michelle Marcus, a health and environmental economist at Vanderbilt University….
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…study may not be generalizable to other regions, they add to the existing body of literature documenting the mental health effects of human-caused disasters on communities. “Environmental disasters have significant…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email About 8 in 10 Americans carry a computer with them in the form of a smartphone but many in the U.S. still lack one…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email At the end of 2019, reflecting on that year’s most popular pieces, I made a vague forward-looking statement that turned out to be a…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Few journalists have the time or opportunity to fully explain the scientific process each time they report on academic research. But they can make…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email People who trust science are more likely to be duped into believing and disseminating pseudoscience, finds a new paper in the Journal of Experimental…
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