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Brazil’s collapsing Manaus health service escalates COVID Indigenous risk

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Glenn Scherer | 0 Comments

Vanda Ortega, an indigenous nurse, becomes the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Amazonas state, Brazil. Courtesy Rede Amazônica. “Health professionals are physically and psychologically exhausted, and patients…

State Gives $2.5 Million to Pitt to Study Health Impacts of Fracking

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Rachel McDevitt | 0 Comments

Pitt Public Health will conduct two studies, including a possible relationship to childhood cancers in southwestern Pa. The post State Gives $2.5 Million to Pitt to Study Health Impacts of…

From doublespeak to alternative facts: How Trump made a mess of the language

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Kate Yoder | 0 Comments

The 45th president of the United States lied about everything, even the weather. It started his first week in office. Beneath a dishwater-gray sky in January 2017, President Donald Trump…

Nature-based solutions needed to enhance climate resilience in Southeast Asia (commentary)

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Erik Hoffner | 0 Comments

The year 2020 reminded us that a healthy humankind is impossible without a healthy planet. From the familiar impacts of climate change to the systems shock brought by the COVID-19…

Trump’s unintended legacy: A fiery climate resistance

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Shannon Osaka | 0 Comments

When President Donald Trump moved into the White House in early 2017, those worried about the quickening pace of climate change had every right to be terrified. After all, on…

The president needs to hit the ground running on climate

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Michael E. Mann | 0 Comments

This story was originally published by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. First, Americans, let’s congratulate ourselves for having…

More than 50 countries commit to protecting 30% of Earth’s land and oceans

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Fiona Harvey | 0 Comments

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A coalition of more than 50 countries has committed to protect…

Will states use the Capitol riot to crack down on pipeline protests?

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Naveena Sadasivam | 0 Comments

Earlier this week, with national attention focused on accountability for the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the capitol building in Washington, D.C., Ohio quietly became the 13th state since 2017 to…

Beth Gardiner: What Are The Consequences Of Breathing Dirty Air?

Posted on January 15, 2021 by NPRTED Staff | 0 Comments

From NPR Journalist Beth Gardiner and activist Yvette Arellano explain the long-term health effects of air pollution. Yvette lives in a Houston neighborhood near the largest petrochemical complex in the…

Green groups promised a racial reckoning in 2020. Is it happening?

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Cameron Oglesby | 0 Comments

So how are green groups doing when it comes to racial and gender diversity? That’s a question that feels … especially important … in 2021. For the past four years,…