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Heat Kills Thousands in the U.S. Every Year. Why Are the Deaths So Hard to Track?
August 23, 2024 | The New York Times | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View
Environmental justice boot camp offers training on solutions-driven research
August 21, 2024 | Harvard School of Public Health News | Featured: Joan Casey View
Should you be worried about toxic metals in tampons?
August 19, 2024 | Right as Rain - UW Medicine | Featured: Catherine Karr View
The climate crisis is a mental health crisis. Building smart-surface public spaces is an easy prescription
August 15, 2024 | New York Amsterdam News | Featured: Howard Frumkin View
More than 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, study estimates. Here are the countries most impacted
August 12, 2024 | CBS News | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View
New lawsuit claims worker died after being electrocuted at Tesla facility in Austin
August 8, 2024 | KVUE ABC | Featured: Richard J. Gleason View
How King County’s newest park fits into a plan for extreme heat
August 6, 2024 | Seattle Times | Featured: Jeremy J Hess View
Wildfire smoke health effects: How to protect yourself in WA
August 6, 2024 | FOX 13 Seattle | Featured: Coralynn Sack View
Everywhere and everlasting: How PFAS affect the human body
August 4, 2024 | Spokesman-Review | Featured: Catherine Karr View
Wildfire Smoke Exposure Linked With Higher Dementia Risk
August 1, 2024 | HealthDay | Featured: Joan Casey View
15 UW professors among new class of members to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
August 1, 2024 | UW News | Featured: Jeremy J Hess View
Using low-cost air sensors in schools can inform decision-making
August 1, 2024 | Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Newsletter | Featured: Orly Stampfer (alum) View
Exploring wildfire smoke exposure and risk of dementia in an older patient population: Joan A. Casey, PhD & Holly Elser, MD, PhD, MPH
July 29, 2024 | NeurologyLive | Featured: Joan Casey View
Wildfire smoke may be worse for your brain than other air pollution, study says
July 29, 2024 | Washington Post | Featured: Joan Casey View
Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke linked to increased risk of dementia diagnosis, new study finds
July 29, 2024 | CNN | Featured: Joan Casey View