Living in a neighborhood with a high concentration of trees could significantly lower levels of inflammation and, importantly, decrease the risk of heart disease, new research from Green Heart Louisville’s first wave of clinical research from its HEAL study shows. Aruni Bhatnagar, the medical professor and cardiology researcher at the University of Louisville who is […]
More than half of people on Earth — approximately 4 billion— lack access to safe drinking water, which is double the number estimated in 2020, a new study by REACH global research program has found. Launched by University of Nairobi and University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment in 2015, REACH focuses on […]
The United States has a legacy of lead contamination that could be affecting the environment around your home. A new study found that moss in older neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, had lead levels that were much higher than in nearby rural areas due to lead-sheathed telecommunications cables and leaded gasoline. In pre-1960 Portland neighborhoods, the […]
Nearly half a billion children live in areas of the globe where there are twice as many or more “extremely hot days” each year than there were six decades ago, according to a new UNICEF analysis. The report, A Threat to Progress: Confronting the effects of climate change on child health and well-being, found that […]
Landfills in the United States — one of the country’s biggest sources of pollution — have been found to contain large amounts of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) “forever chemicals.” A recent study has found that PFAS likely make their way into the surrounding environment through gas emitted from landfills, since treatment systems at […]
Many consumers are familiar with the routine of buying fruits and vegetables, bringing them home and washing them in the sink to remove pesticides and other contaminants from the outer layer before preparing and eating it. But according to new research, washing produce is likely not effective enough at removing the residue from pesticides. The […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an emergency notice pulling the pesticide dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, also known as DCPA or Dacthal. The chemical was placed under an emergency order to stop further use, the first order of its kind in nearly four decades, because of the risk it poses to fetuses in pregnant people. […]
Progress in the fight to end world hunger has been “set back 15 years,” with roughly 733 million people facing hunger in 2023, according to the United Nations’ The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 (SOFI) report. That is equal to one out of 11 people internationally and one out of […]
A new study by economists from West Virginia University (WVU) has found hot spots of harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) “forever chemicals” in United States public water systems, including in higher-income, densely populated areas, as well as those that use groundwater. At least four PFAS contamination hot spots were identified in the eastern U.S. […]
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