A Second Helping of Air Pollution
Excited for home-cooked food during the holiday season, when indoor air pollution is at its highest? The air we breathe matters as much as the food we eat.
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Climate Changes Fetal Hearts
Warming temperatures have the potential to impact the health of unborn children: heat and high temperatures can also interfere with fetal heart development.
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Climate Change and the Food Gap
By 2050, the global population will be almost 10 billion. Simply growing more food is not the answer to feed us all.
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Feeling Hot and Bothered
Heat waves may increase risk of suicide. Nick Obradovich and colleagues developed a method to quantify the influence of climate change on mental health.
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I Would If I Could: Bike Share
Better Bike Share Partnership increased access to bike share programs in low-income and underserved communities in six cities. This study assessed ongoing barriers to use in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn.
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The Unexpected: Less Lead in New Orleans
After Hurricane Katrina, researchers found that storm surge flooding did not increase heavy metal contaminants in soil. Instead, lead levels dropped.
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Condom Nation
Cases of sexually transmitted infections are at record highs. Could a self-lubricating condom make sex safer and be fun to use?
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The 2 Degree Solution
What would it take for us to avoid a 2˚C increase in global temperature in the next 30 years? An energy policy firm tackles the question, modeling how current energy policies will impact future emissions.
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We DID Start the Fire
If our energy use increases at the current rate, dramatic temperature increases are predicted for US cities.
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The Problems with Plastics
As of 2017, the world has produced 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic. A report by Christopher Rhodes highlights five efforts to reduce plastic waste in our environment.
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