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Communities around Sea-Tac Airport exposed to a unique mix of air pollution associated with aircraft
December 3, 2019 |View
Air pollution can accelerate lung disease as much as a pack a day of cigarettes
August 13, 2019 |View
Offspring of pregnant women exposed to high level of pollutants may have lower IQs
July 19, 2019 |View
New interactive mapping tool ranks Washington communities most impacted by environmental health risks
January 10, 2019 |View
UW professors Terrance Kavanagh, Jay Shendure elected as fellows of the AAAS
November 18, 2018 |View
EPA awards UW nearly $3 million to further study air pollution and cardiovascular disease link
February 8, 2018 |View
In the news
Washingtonians are more likely to die on smoky days, new UW research shows
January 17, 2020 | Crosscut | Featured: Tania M Busch Isaksen View
Climate change harms the health of children
January 9, 2020 | UW Daily | Featured: Jeremy J Hess, Kristie L. Ebi View
Perspective: The false promise of natural gas
January 9, 2020 | New England Journal of Medicine | Featured: Howard Frumkin View
Little-understood, unregulated particles pollute neighborhoods under Sea-Tac flight paths, UW study finds
December 20, 2019 | Seattle Times | Featured: Elena Austin, Joel D. Kaufman, Lianne Sheppard View
Carbon dioxide could make it harder to think
December 19, 2019 | Gizmodo | Featured: Joel D. Kaufman View
Lovely But Dangerous, Wood Fires Bring Health Risks
December 13, 2019 | US News & World Report | Featured: Joel D. Kaufman View
'We just want to work': Washington farmworkers say enough to sexual assault
December 11, 2019 | Crosscut | Featured: Victoria Breckwich Vasquez, Jody Early, Pacific NW Agricultural Safety and Health Center View
Communities near Sea-Tac Airport exposed to unique mix of air pollution, UW study finds
December 6, 2019 | KIRO-7 News | Featured: Elena Austin View
UW study looks at ‘unique’ pollution around Sea-Tac Airport
December 5, 2019 | Q-13 Fox News | Featured: Edmund Y. W. Seto View
Sea-Tac planes are emitting a unique kind of pollution —and it's not regulated
December 4, 2019 | KUOW | Featured: Edmund Y. W. Seto View
Study: Children's health will be affected by climate change throughout lives
November 26, 2019 | New Orleans Public Radio | Featured: Jeremy J Hess View
Researchers co-lead US policy brief for 2019 Lancet report on health and climate change
November 25, 2019 | UW School of Public Health News | Featured: Jeremy J Hess View
New toolkit aims to prevent sexual harassment in the agriculture industry
November 22, 2019 | Yakima Herald | Featured: Jody Early; Victoria Breckwich Vasquez View
Job flexibility, control and salary play a role in worker health and safety, researchers say
November 20, 2019 | Safety+Health | Featured: Noah S. Seixas View
Baking cities advance 'slowly' in race against rising heat threat
November 15, 2019 | Reuters | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View