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Un corte de carretera mostrando capas de la Caliza Camp Nelson
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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.

Scientist Kim Prather stands next to a wave tank in a laboratory
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Aerosol Scientists Try to Clear the Air About COVID-19 Transmission

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 31 March 202131 May 2022

“We are basically doing what a public health agency should be doing.”

Verdant, hilly vista of Los Cerrillos, Cauca, Colombia
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Climate Change May Reduce Children’s Diet Diversity

by C. Fogerty 2 March 202120 October 2021

Researchers synthesize climate and health data to statistically quantify the relationship between diet diversity and climate variables.

Illustration of underserved communities in Phoenix and Florida suffering from heat illnesses
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Dangerous Heat, Unequal Consequences

by Sofia Moutinho and E. Gawthrop 23 February 20215 October 2021

How two neighborhoods in Arizona and Florida became hot spots for sickening heat.

New Orleans, La., houses surrounded by debris and floodwater from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Assessing Social Equity in Disasters

by E. Tate and C. Emrich 23 February 202127 October 2022

Natural hazard impacts and resources allocated for risk reduction and disaster recovery are often inequitably distributed. New research is developing and applying methods to measure these inequities.

Imagen satelital del hemisferio este de la Tierra.
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Ocho lecciones del COVID-19 para guiar nuestra respuesta climática

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 17 February 20215 November 2021

La respuesta global de la pandemia en curso puede enseñarnos cómo deberíamos y no deberíamos responder la crisis climática. Y lo más importante aún, demuestra que podemos hacer algo.

People stacking hands on top of each other
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Suicide Rates May Rise After Natural Disasters

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 26 January 202115 October 2021

Rates of suicide increased most dramatically in the second year after a disaster, after many postdisaster mental health assistance programs expire.

Living walls line Milan’s Bosco Verticale apartment building
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Cómo convertir nuestras ciudades en Treetopias

by Alan Simson 15 January 20216 September 2022

Estamos y seguiremos plantando más árboles callejeros, arboledas urbanas y cúmulos informales de árboles en nuestros parques y espacios verdes. La Treetopia ha comenzado.

Huge plumes of smoke billow behind rural homes in Brian Head, Utah, in 2017.
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Wildfires May Exacerbate Asthma in the Western United States

by A. Gold 18 December 202028 October 2021

A new study predicts that by the 2050s, wildfire smoke will cause the region to spend $850 million more every year to treat asthma.

A metal gate across a rural road during a dust storm in a dry landscape
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Long-Term Drought Harms Mental Health in Rural Communities

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 15 December 20203 November 2021

In rural and remote communities in Australia, psychological distress worsened during the first few years of a prolonged drought. Other signs of poor mental health persisted beyond that time.

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