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Health & Ecosystems

A couple walks through smog.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Does Bad Air Cause Lung Cancer?

by Gabriel Filippelli 2 June 20219 September 2024

Papers are welcomed for a new cross-journal special collection exploring the links between air quality and lung cancer.

Two U.S. Air Force planes fly over the ocean.
Posted inNews

Health Costs from Climate Soar To $820 Billion

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 28 May 20215 October 2021

Climate change and fossil fuel use are responsible for hiking up the price of health care beyond what the U.S. spends on defense.

香港和维多利亚港
Posted inResearch Spotlights

改善粤港澳大湾区空气质量

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 27 May 202117 March 2023

新的模拟研究显示,减少粤港澳大湾区以外地区的居住和农业污染,可以改善这个特大都市带乃至整个中国的公共健康状况。

Nighttime satellite image showing lights in the San Francisco Bay area in June 2020
Posted inOpinions

Integrating Data to Find Links Between Environment and Health

by Zhong Liu, D. Tong, J. Wei and David Meyer 26 May 20219 September 2024

Several obstacles stand in the way of integrating social, health, and Earth science data for vital geohealth studies, but there are tools and opportunities to overcome these obstacles.

Kinshasa and Brazzaville, two capital cities in Africa located on opposite banks of the Congo River
Posted inNews

Cheap Sensors Provide Missing Air Quality Data in African Cities

by Carolyn Wilke 11 May 202114 September 2022

Calibrated low-cost sensors in Kinshasa and Brazzaville provide new information on pollution and help scientists model a way to improve access to air quality data.

Hong Kong and Victoria Harbor
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Improving Air Quality in China’s Greater Bay Area

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 28 April 20215 January 2023

New simulations show how reducing residential and agricultural pollution outside the Greater Bay Area could improve public health inside this megalopolis and across China.

Illustration of MAIA instrument’s multiangle views over the globe
Posted inNews

Using Satellite Data to Map Air Pollution and Improve Health

by Jackie Rocheleau 15 April 20211 November 2021

NASA scientists will be teaming up with epidemiologists in the agency’s first health-focused mission. With satellite data, they’ll find out how air pollution affects health in cities around the world.

Un corte de carretera mostrando capas de la Caliza Camp Nelson
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Ciertas formaciones rocosas pueden provocar riesgos de radón en los hogares

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 2 April 202120 September 2022

Investigadores de Kentucky han combinado resultados de kits de pruebas domésticas con el mapa geológico del estado para elaborar un mapa del potencial de radón en interiores basado en la geología subyacente a las viviendas del estado.

Researchers discovered a correlation between a mass bird die-off and wildfires.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mass Bird Die-Off Linked to Wildfires and Toxic Gases

Joshua Learn, Science Writer by Joshua Rapp Learn 26 March 202118 October 2021

Using observations from crowdsourced science and weather location data, researchers concluded that wildfires caused a mass die-off of birds in the western and central United States in 2020.

Bins of produce for sale in an open-air market in Accra, Ghana, in the summer of 2019
Posted inOpinions

Enhancing Food Security Through Earth Science Data

by M. E. Brown 25 January 202124 October 2022

When most agriculture in the world is rural, getting crucial geoscience information to farmers is a technical challenge that a few organizations are just starting to figure out.

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