Epidemiologists study disease outbreaks in populations to determine who gets sick and why. In the wake of this year’s hurricanes, they are assessing impacts from mold, toxic leaks and other threats.
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Natural disasters expose people to toxic gases, bacterial illness and other serious dangers. How can people maximize their safety as they return home?
A new study shows that anchovies – key food for larger fish – are attracted to plastic trash because it smells like food. This suggests that toxic substances in plastic could move up through food chains.
Cleaning up and reusing contaminated sites, known as brownfields, can create jobs and promote economic growth. But it also can drive gentrification that prices out low-income residents.
President Trump’s budget would cut funding for Superfund, which cleans up the nation’s most toxic sites, by nearly one-third. An economist explains how Superfund cleanups benefit local communities.
Highly-alkaline industrial waste is usually sent to landfill. But while it might be dangerous, it’s also useful.
The dramatic wastewater spill in the Animas River is past its critical phase, but given the long history of untreated mine waste, there will surely be more like it.
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Research Scientist, Stanford University
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Reader in Environmental Science, University of Hull
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Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
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Faculty in Medical Toxicology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Furman Public Policy Scholar, New York University
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Assistant professor, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor of Geography, University at Buffalo
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Senior Lecturer in Earth System Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Economics, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Epidemiology and Core Faculty of Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Lecturer in Sustainable Futures, University of St Andrews
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Doctoral candidate, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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PhD Candidate in Sustainable Development, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
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Associate Professor of Geography, DePaul University