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Clarivate announces Highly Cited Researchers 2024
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2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown reveals record-breaking health threats of climate inaction
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New center helps ready Northwest communities for disasters and public health emergencies
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In the news

Reducing food waste: part of the food insecurity solution
October 8, 2023 | Salish Current | Featured: Emily Hovis View

How Mississippi’s outdoor workers dealt with the hottest August on record
October 5, 2023 | Mississippi Public Broadcasting | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

New WA air-quality monitors draw critique from environmental justice advocates
October 5, 2023 | Seattle Times | Featured: Esther Min View

UW prof.: Fighting climate change woefully underfunded
October 3, 2023 | MyNorthwest | Featured: Jeremy J Hess View

U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens
September 28, 2023 | Scientific American | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

Cookware containing dangerous amounts of lead still being sold online after expert warnings
September 26, 2023 | KING 5 | Featured: Diana Ceballos, Stephen G. Whittaker View

Study finds public transit workers exposed to fentanyl residue, meth smoke
September 26, 2023 | Safety + Health | Featured: Marissa Baker View

What to know about Nipah virus amid outbreak in India
September 18, 2023 | ABC News | Featured: Peter Rabinowitz View

UW researchers stress transit study did not find 'no risk' from drug exposure
September 14, 2023 | KOMO News | Featured: Marissa Baker View

Why didn’t health officials find Listeria in Tacoma Frugals machines in April inspection?
September 13, 2023 | The News Tribune | Featured: Emily Hovis View

'It is not OK,' Seattle union leader responds to transit drug study
September 8, 2023 | KUOW | Featured: Marissa Baker, Christopher Zuidema View

Bus operators most likely to be impacted by fentanyl, meth levels on transit, UW study finds
September 7, 2023 | KING 5 | Featured: Marissa Baker View

There's meth on that: Study finds drug traces on Seattle transit rides
September 7, 2023 | KUOW | Featured: Marissa Baker View

UW study finds meth, fentanyl in air and on surfaces of public transit
September 7, 2023 | FOX 13 Seattle | Featured: Marissa Baker View

Drug smoke wafts through transit but not at toxic levels, UW study says
September 7, 2023 | Seattle Times | Featured: Marissa Baker View