public health
Imagery from the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago. (Michael Kappel/CC BY-NC 2.0)
Northwestern University Medill
Lightfoot administration in negotiations with Chicago over racist zoning and land use after decades of environmental racism directed at South and West Sides.
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SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
In this audio story, SUNY-ESF student, Lisa Steinberg, discusses the intersection of sustainability and menstrual health.
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George Washington University
Extreme heat is affecting our bodies in subtle ways. Here's how mental and physical health will be afflicted as the planet heats up.
Co-owners of Main Street Farms, Bob Cat (left) and Allan Gandelman (right) hold up produce at their farm in upstate New York. (Courtesy of Main Street Farms)
Planet Forward Correspondent | SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry
How an organic farm and a nonprofit health coalition in Cortland, N.Y., are partnering to implement a system of prescription foods to serve people with low incomes in their community.
A discarded mask was one of the many types of litter resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Andy Mabbett/Creative Commons 4.0)
Northwestern University
From neighborhood cleanup to city-wide effort, Cleanup Club Chicago organizes volunteers in an effort to address plastic litter pollution.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York, New York (massmatt/Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/).
George Washington University
Climate Hits Home | I’ll probably never know if climate change caused all that extra pollen that sent me to the emergency room that day, but the science is definitive. Warming temperatures usher in way more pollen.
California farmworkers have had to endure heatwaves, wildfires and a pandemic that continues to spread during peak harvest season for almonds and wine grapes. (Photo courtesy of UFW/United Farm Workers)
Arizona State University
The race to deliver fresh foods during peak harvest season means farmworkers are facing the threats of climate change acceleration and COVID-19.
Arizona State University
Water is a precious commodity that’s scarce in many places across the U.S. but even more so in rural Native American communities like the Navajo Nation, where a virus that requires hand-washing has taken a heavy toll.
Cremated remains lie in the incineration chamber at the Paradise Memorial Crematory in Scottsdale, one of the state’s largest. Partly fueled by the pandemic, the U.S. cremation rate reached 56% in 2020; it was 67% in Arizona. (Kevin Pirehpour/Cronkite News)
Arizona State University
In Arizona, where 16,842 have died in the pandemic, the smoke and the hum of crematoriums working overtime have left some neighbors desperate for relief from the odor and pollution.
Columbia University
The pandemic should be a golden opportunity to change the way we think about mental illness. So far, it hasn’t been.