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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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How researchers measure wildfire smoke exposure doesn’t capture long-term health effects − and hides racial disparities
September 16, 2024 | The Conversation | Featured: Joan Casey View

Extreme heat due to climate crisis puts people at greater risk of kidney disease
September 13, 2024 | The Guardian | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

U.S. deaths from heat are dangerously undercounted
September 7, 2024 | Scientific American | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

As Extreme Heat Becomes More Common, the Unprecedented Pacific Northwest Heat Dome Offers Lessons
September 6, 2024 | JAMA Medical News | Featured: Jeremy J Hess View

How to minimise microplastic exposure from food, water, air, and clothes
August 31, 2024 | Business Standard | Featured: Sheela Sathyanarayana View

Climate change poses health risks. But it’s hard to fight when state policy ignores it.
August 29, 2024 | Yahoo News | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi View

Living in tree-filled neighborhoods may reduce risk of heart disease, study shows
August 27, 2024 | NBC News | Featured: Joan Casey View

How heavy rain can make you sick
August 27, 2024 | Popular Science | Featured: Karen Levy View

Wildfire smoke can hurt you in surprising ways
August 26, 2024 | Bloomberg | Featured: Joan Casey View

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