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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

Power outages hit some communities harder and more often, study says
May 14, 2023 | Washington Post | Featured: Joan Casey View

Ready for wildfire season? Here's how bad this year's season could be across the west
May 14, 2023 | KOMO News | Featured: DEOHS Postdoctoral Fellow Savannah D'Evelyn View

Lengthy blackouts hit some areas harder than others
May 5, 2023 | Futurity | Featured: Joan Casey View

Spain’s April heat nearly impossible without climate change
May 5, 2023 | Associated Press | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

SeaTac might have to clean up its act
May 3, 2023 | KUOW | Featured: Elena Austin View

Centering Indigenous knowledge in environmental justice
April 21, 2023 | ICT News | Featured: Edmund Y. W. Seto View

Why Asia’s early heat wave is so alarming
April 19, 2023 | Vox | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

2021 heat wave contributed to over 150 deaths across Washington state, study finds
April 17, 2023 | KIRO-7 | Featured: Joan Casey View

New count of WA’s past heat wave deaths gives a ‘warning to the PNW’
April 17, 2023 | Seattle Times | Featured: Joan Casey View

WA, Seattle launch campaign to plant thousands of urban trees
April 14, 2023 | Seattle Times | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

Two States Have Proposed Bans on Common Food Additives Linked to Health Concerns
April 13, 2023 | The New York Times | Featured: Sheela Sathyanarayana View

Washington state’s 2021 heat wave led to 159 deaths over three weeks: study
April 7, 2023 | Vancouver Sun | Featured: Joan Casey View

Science debunks a decades-old myth about drinking milk
April 1, 2023 | Inverse | Featured: Michelle Averill View

Study: farmworking parents need more resources to cope with wildfire seasons
March 31, 2023 | NW Public Broadcasting | Featured: Post-doctoral fellow Savannah D'Evelyn View

Contradicting EPA staff, CASAC majority calls for tougher ozone limits
March 30, 2023 | InsideEPA.com | Featured: Lianne Sheppard View