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Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health

WEBThe global Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides shows clients how to use immersion in nature for healing. “The forest is the therapist,” the group’s …

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As Evidence Mounts, New Concerns About Fracking and Health

WEBCommonly reported health effects that are increasingly linked to fracking include some cancers, low birth weight, disruptions to the endocrine system, nose …

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A Warning by Key Researcher On Risks of BPA in Our Lives

WEBThe synthetic chemical, BPA — found in everything from plastic bottles to cash register receipts — is a potent, estrogen-mimicking compound. In an interview with …

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For Gen Z, Climate Change Is a Heavy Emotional Burden

WEBBritt Wray is a leading researcher on the mental health impact of climate change. In an e360 interview, she talks about the rise of climate anxiety in young …

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How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease

WEBA study in Brazil, published in the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases in 2010, found that clearing four percent of the forest resulted in a nearly 50-percent …

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Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the …

WEBConnecting the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the Coronavirus. Scientist Sacoby Wilson has long focused on health issues related to environmental …

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What Will It Take to Save Our Cities from a Scorching Future

WEBBy Jocelyn C. Zuckerman • February 22, 2024. In 2022, a year in which 70,000 Europeans died of heat-related causes, the United Nations named Eleni “Lenio” …

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A Troubling Look at the Human Toll of Mountaintop Removal …

WEBIn an interview with Yale Environment 360, Hendryx talks about why he believes scientists were slow to consider the health impacts of mountaintop removal …

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The Oil Well Next Door: California’s Silent Health Hazard

WEBA 2020 analysis by FracTracker Alliance, a nonprofit that collects data on the health consequences of oil and gas development, found that some 2.17 million people …

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Climate Change Tied to Increased Pregnancy Risks, Analysis Finds

WEBClimate change is linked with worsening cardiac disease, respiratory disease, mental health, and exposure to infectious diseases. But pregnant women and …

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Why It’s Time to Stop Punishing Our Soils with Fertilizers

WEBResearcher Rick Haney travels the U.S. preaching the benefits of healthy soils. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, he talks about the folly of pursuing ever …

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Getting the Lead Out: Why Battery Recycling Is a Global Health …

WEBIn California last month, the state auditor reported that thousands of homes, along with schools and parks, in a 3.4-mile-wide zone around a former battery recycling …

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A New Way of Understanding What Makes a River Healthy

WEBBy Jim Robbins • January 4, 2017. The Yellowstone River has its headwaters in the mountain streams and snowy peaks of the famous U.S. national park with the same …

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Ozone Pollution: An Insidious and Growing Threat to Biodiversity

WEBIt’s well established that chronic exposure to high ozone levels is a serious threat to human health, exacerbating heart and lung problems such as asthma and …

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Too Many People, Too Much Consumption

WEBToo Many People, Too Much Consumption. By Paul Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich • August 4, 2008. Four decades after his controversial book, The Population …

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Reconnecting with Nature Through Green Architecture

WEBStephen Kellert, a social ecologist, is a passionate advocate for the need to incorporate aspects of the natural world into our built environment. In an interview with …

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Toxics in the ‘Clean Rooms’: Are Samsung Workers at Risk

WEBTo experts in health issues relating to high-tech electronics workers, the story emerging from Samsung’s manufacturing plants in South Korea is distressingly familiar: …

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EPA’s Effort to Limit CO2 To Be Fought by Chamber of Commerce

WEBThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce has announced it will mount a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to limit greenhouse gas …

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Are Flame Retardants Safe

WEBNew studies have underscored the potentially harmful health effects of the most widely used flame retardants, found in everything from baby blankets to carpets. …

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New York City Rapidly Switching to Hybrid Taxis

WEBMayor Michael Bloomberg said the city would start adding 300 new hybrid vehicles to its taxi fleet every month, with three automakers guaranteeing to supply the cars.Ten percent of …

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