With the expansion of the journal’s scope, the Editor-in-Chief of Earth’s Future appoints three Deputy Editors to oversee new thematic areas.
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Gold Mines Expose South African Children to Uranium
A new study found that children living near mine tailings in Johannesburg had nearly twice as much uranium in their hair as children not living near tailings—and the younger the children, the higher the uranium concentrations.
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Poor Health and Systemic Inequity Fuel Environmental Harm
Environmental degradation poses well-established risks to human health. But the relationship between the two isn’t a one-way street.
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How to Accelerate Advances in Ecological Forecasting
Developing shared cyberinfrastructure can enhance predictions of ecological change and enable improved decisionmaking for resource management and public well-being.
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Power Plants Will Be Allowed to Release More Than Twice As Much Mercury Into the Air
At a 20 February event in Kentucky, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen pollution restrictions for coal-burning power plants, including limits on emissions of mercury, a hazardous neurotoxin.
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New Method Could Improve U.S. Forecasting of West Nile Virus
An innovative model uses regional climate data and records of West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease to outperform existing forecasts, potentially helping communities prepare.
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A Road Map to Truly Sustainable Water Systems in Space
Future astronauts need efficient, durable, and trustworthy closed-loop systems to provide water for missions lasting months to years.
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Which Countries Are Paying the Highest Price for Particulate Air Pollution?
Reducing the effects of air pollution requires estimations of where it costs the most—in both money and lives.
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Wildfire Smoke Linked to 17,000 Strokes Annually in the United States
A study of 25 million Medicare participants adds to a body of evidence suggesting that prolonged exposure to wildfire smoke is more harmful to human health than other forms of air pollution.
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We Are “Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means,” UN Report Warns
Humanity has overspent and depleted freshwater in the world’s aquifers, glaciers, wetlands, and other natural reservoirs to an irreversible degree, according to a new United Nations report.