Surviving Heatwaves: How to Stay Cool When It’s Hot
With temperatures soaring near 100 degrees or more around the country, experts are warning people...
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Author: Fierce Staff
The Scorching Truth: Extreme Heat is a Wake-Up Call to Act on Climate Change
Heat waves cause or exacerbate a host of illnesses. Air quality is generally worse during extreme heat — a wake-up call to tackle the climate crisis head on.
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Selling a Mirage: The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis
Here’s an inconvenient truth: Not much is being recycled at all, nor is the pyrolysis technology capable of curbing the plastic crisis. Not now. Maybe not ever.
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How to Mend the Bias on Older Women’s Health
Medical research has shortchanged women for decades, leaving physicians without critically important information about how to best manage older women’s health.
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Air in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Is Even Worse Than Expected, Real-Time Data Show
Ethylene oxide levels in the heart of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley are more than double the threshold above which the EPA considers cancer risk to be unacceptable.
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