The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded grants for projects to monitor air quality in 37 states, with a focus on minority communities and other areas overburdened by pollution.
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Nov 3, 2022
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In an emergency, where do you turn to find out what's going on and what you should do to stay safe?
Social Sciences
Oct 31, 2022
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Since 1990 the world's famines have been classified as small—with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991–92 and 2010–12. Now the UN's World Food Program says that nearly seven million Somalis face not being able ...
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2022
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Outside of Nevada's bustling cities, private wells are the primary source of drinking water, serving 182,000 people. Yet some of the tested private wells in Nevada are contaminated with levels of heavy metals that exceed ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2022
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Research co-led by The University of Queensland has found sharing real-time air quality readings in developing countries can reduce air pollution and lead to lower mortality rates.
Environment
Oct 24, 2022
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Joint research has found adult incontinence products are a far bigger waste problem than baby diapers, and with an aging population, the situation will get worse in the next decade.
Environment
Oct 20, 2022
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A new study reveals how Facebook communities were already intertwined with groups opposing best-science guidance long before COVID-19 vaccines
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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Homelessness has increased in rural communities, according to a new report by the University of Southampton. The findings reveal that 88 percent of respondents feel homelessness has increased within the last year alone.
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2022
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As mandatory evacuations for Hurricane Ian began in Florida and the warnings about damaging wind and flooding intensified, I called my aging parents to check in.
Environment
Sep 28, 2022
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For the past few months, religion has never been far from U.S. headlines.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2022
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