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Fresh Approaches to Protecting Human Health from Pollution
New low-cost monitoring and mapping techniques can identify multiple pollution sources and reduce related human disease and death.
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Using Climate Studies to Better Predict Diarrhea Outbreaks
Researchers have found new connections between La Niña climate conditions and the leading killer of children worldwide.
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Will Melting Sea Ice Expose Marine Animals to New Diseases?
Marine mammals previously separated by Arctic ice may have more opportunities to interact as water routes redefine habitats and species ranges.
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Asbestos Fibers Thread Through Rocks and Dust Outside Vegas
Scientists found natural asbestos minerals in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States. The health implications aren’t clear, nor are the impacts on development.
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El Niño May Be a Culprit Behind the Cholera Epidemic in Yemen
Increased rainfall in East Africa and subsequent wind may have brought infected bugs to Yemen, causing the worst cholera outbreak of our time.
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Leaping Global Temperatures Make Frog Disease Deadlier
Climate change will shift the warmest months, when disease rates spike, into tadpole season, which could endanger the long-term survival of common frogs.
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European Contact with the Americas May Have Triggered Global Cooling
The loss of precontact agricultural communities to genocide and disease may have led to massive reforestation, a dip in carbon dioxide, and one of the coldest snaps of the Little Ice Age.
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Ozone Pollution Deaths in India Higher Than Previously Thought
Reducing emissions could avert more than 300,000 deaths per year by 2050.
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Stroke Deaths Rise, Life Expectancy Falls with Polluted Air
The connection between poor air quality and higher stroke mortality was strongest in southern states across a region known as the “stroke belt.”