Environmental Health & Justice
Will the Paris Climate Talks Help Colombia’s Wayuu people?
National Geographic
Drought has been deadly for indigenous people in Colombia's desert peninsula, underscoring a global crisis: People will be forced from their homes as weather turns more extreme.
“We’re dumping loads of retardant chemicals to fight wildfires. What does it mean for wildlife?”
Environmental Health News
As western wildfires become bigger and more intense, state and federal fire agencies are using more and more aerial fire retardant, prompting concerns over fish kills, aquatic life, and water quality.
“EPA budget cuts threaten to slow uranium cleanup on Navajo Nation”
Reveal
Dangerous remnants of the region’s Cold War boom, more than 500 uranium mines were abandoned on and near the Navajo reservation. New scientific evidence has emerged that suggests the severity of the Navajos’ exposure. The Navajo Nation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have worked for more than two decades to address some of the most glaring hazards at the mines. Proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration could hamper those cleanups.
"Worried Sick"
The Standard-Times
In the quiet streets of several residential neighborhoods in New Bedford, Massachusetts, people are suffering from cancer, respiratory problems and immune system-related disorders. No one can say for sure if their illnesses are connected to New Bedford's legacy of industrial contamination. But after waiting years for the city to address their concerns, some have decided to press ahead on their own.
"Human Hormones Hurt Lobsters"
The Standard-Times
When lobsters started disappearing from Buzzards Bay in southeastern Massachusetts, UMass-Dartmouth professor Yuegang Zuo thought he might know why. Dr. Zuo and other scientists suspect that the naturally-occurring and synthetic female estrogen in birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy drugs could be hindering larval lobster development, as well as shell growth and reproduction in adult lobsters.