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Nov 26, 2017

Combating climate change? Combat land degradation, says UNCCD chief

By 2045, there will be 130 million people who migrated because of desertification, and out of them, 60 million will come from south of the Sahel and Africa.

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Many Louisiana sites with clean-up orders yet to show ability to pay for work, audit says

More than half of the hazardous waste facilities with state-ordered plans to clean up old spills in Louisiana haven't yet shown how they intend for pay for that work.

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Researcher Pat Hunt with lab mice in her Washington State University lab. (Credit: Lynne Peeples)

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Exposed: Deciphering the real message about BPA

This is part 3 of a 4-part investigation of the science surrounding the chemical BPA and the U.S. regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

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Originals

Clouded in Clarity: A comic on chemicals & controversy

Harmful chemicals are difficult to understand. So, to pair with our investigation, "Exposed" we present EHN's first comic, "Clouded in Clarity," which focuses on BPA and the controversy around an ongoing, massive study on it.

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A barge ships coal up the Ohio River near Cincinnati. (Photo by Lucia Walinchus/Eye on Ohio, the Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism)

Originals

The water is cleaner but the politics are messier: A look back at the Clean Water Act movement after 50 years

In June 1969, a Time Magazine article garnered national attention when it brought to light the water quality conditions in Ohio: a river had literally caught fire.

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Paddling 300 miles to protect the waters of Ohi:yo', the 'good river'

For degawëno:da's, paddling the length of the Allegheny River over the course of four months this year was to be a "witness to the raw element of the natural world."

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BarbiAnn Maynard drives 45 minutes from her home in Martin County, Kentucky, to a spring at the Mingo-Logan county line in West Virginia to fill containers with fresh water. (Credit: Curren Sheldon/100 Days in Appalachia)

Originals

'That's vinegar:' The Ohio River's history of contamination and progress made

In 1958, researchers from the University of Louisville and the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission gathered at a lock on the Monongahela River for routine collecting, counting and comparing of fish species.

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Toxics

How the world’s most widely used insecticide led to a fishery collapse

Neonicotinoids wiped out plankton and fish in a Japanese lake, and are likely harming aquatic ecosystems worldwide, new research suggests.

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Climate

As Australia burns, its leaders trade insults

The country has long been a model for common-sense public policy. But this week’s fires have revealed once again that its pragmatism stops at climate change.

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Combating climate change? Combat land degradation, says UNCCD chief

Many Louisiana sites with clean-up orders yet to show ability to pay for work, audit says

East Chicago man says EPA slow to address toxic sludge in basement: ‘My only option is to take a water hose and wash it down the drain.’

Exposed: Deciphering the real message about BPA

Clouded in Clarity: A comic on chemicals & controversy

The water is cleaner but the politics are messier: A look back at the Clean Water Act movement after 50 years

Paddling 300 miles to protect the waters of Ohi:yo', the 'good river'

'That's vinegar:' The Ohio River's history of contamination and progress made

How the world’s most widely used insecticide led to a fishery collapse

As Australia burns, its leaders trade insults

Exposed: A scientific stalemate leaves our hormones and health at risk

American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.

Exposed: On the edge of research honesty

Is a federal study of BPA contaminated by questionable motives, methods?

Exposed: How willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies

EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

Exposed: Toward a BPA-free future

What will it take to rid our store shelves of BPA and its equally hazardous cousins?

Good River: Our reporters want to hear your Ohio River stories and concerns

Text "OHIO" to 765-227-2602 to share with our seven-newsroom collaborative.

EHN reporter: Here's how Pittsburgh journalists should cover the LGBTQ+ community

An upcoming event aims to empower reporters to get it right.

Combating climate change? Combat land degradation, says UNCCD chief

American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.

Is a federal study of BPA contaminated by questionable motives, methods?

EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

What will it take to rid our store shelves of BPA and its equally hazardous cousins?

Text "OHIO" to 765-227-2602 to share with our seven-newsroom collaborative.

An upcoming event aims to empower reporters to get it right.

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