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Ingredients from shampoo, sunscreens and other personal care products are turning up in water supplies. Some are toxic or cause hormonal damage to aquatic life, and could threaten human health.
By reintroducing new gene variants back into the wild, there’s hope it will reverse the negative impacts of pink pigeon inbreeding.
No energy source is perfect, but solar and wind have a much lower health and environmental footprint than fossil fuels, a study finds. Biopower, though, is a mixed bag.
Slaughterhouses are an essential step in meat production. Hygiene standards need to be maintained to prevent the spread of diseases.
A five-year project announced today will implement an innovative water-sensitive approach tailored to informal settlements. The goal is to revitalise 24 communities in Fiji and Indonesia.
We all want to keep our food in tip top condition but very few of us know how to use fridges properly.
A new way of looking at what’s behind chronic disease takes into account social, environmental and other factors, rather than blaming individuals.
Citizens and activists are using cheap off-the-shelf sensors to collect their own data on air pollution. It’s a promising trend, but these devices have serious technical limitations.
Coal-fired power stations need to be closed within the next decade on health grounds. Here’s why.
Inexpensive cloth face masks, worn by many people in heavily polluted countries, offer only partial protection. Instead governments should warn people to avoid exposure and work to clear the air.
The unanticipated public health consequences of unsustainable development reminds the world that the issues are not in the distant future, but instead face us now.
Three studies find higher rate of health issues for people who live near large or many fracked natural gas well sites.
Beyond the environmental cost, what is the psychological toll on communities of mountaintop removal coal mining?
As the new Australian parliament takes the reins, health groups are moving to ensure the new health minister addresses a major health threat in this term of government: climate change.
Africa has largely been ignored when it comes to official global air quality programmes. Yet low-income countries like many of those in Africa are particularly affected by air pollution.
The American Medical Association (AMA) issued guidelines for communities to reduce harmful effects of LED streetlights. A medical researcher explains what can go wrong.
Congress has passed a long-overdue update of a key law regulating hazardous chemicals. But a legal scholar says the new law does not go far enough to reduce chemical exposure risks.
More people in the U.S. and world will be exposed to the disease-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti, not just because of warmer temperatures but global population changes as well.
Advocates have argued for years about whether genetically engineered crops are safe to grow and eat. Plant pathologist and geneticist Pamela Ronald calls for a more nuanced discussion.
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Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Middlebury College
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, Adelaide University
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Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Macquarie University
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Chief Specialist Scientist (Public Health), South African Medical Research Council
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Adelaide University
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Honorary Associate Professor in Environmental Health, Australian National University
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Specialist scientist, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University