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Editorial: Keep the community

As COVID-19 upends life across the country, the natural world offers lessons in remaining resilient and emerging stronger

Venture in any forest—from your city park to swaths of protected old growth—and you will see trees both big and small, young and old, and of different species all standing together.

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Video: Alex Honnold's foundation goes to Detroit

Solar Detroit, from production company Duct Tape Then Beer, highlights the impact a few solar panels can have on a neighborhood.

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Water

EPA letter criticizes Maryland over Chesapeake lawsuit threat

In a letter to members of Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday maintained its support for Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts while criticizing Maryland, which has threatened to take the agency to court.

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Popular

Texas regulators let coal companies get away with substandard cleanup, contamination

Thousands of acres of former coal mining land in Texas could be contaminated because of the state's lax enforcement of industry requirements.

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Climate

'Electric' adventurer heads for thin, clean air

If an ordinary slob needs to chase a lost horizon for an epiphany, it makes sense that a mountaineer would have his revelation on the couch.

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Food

Man creates pasta straws to combat plastic pollution

A man is creating straws made of pasta to help combat plastic pollution - showing that we're not all pasta the point of caring about the environment. (Sorry).

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Climate

Boston’s Eastie Farm builds community and resilience on the front lines of climate change

Sprouting from a 3100-square-foot lot, the urban farm brings people together, feeds neighbors, and focuses on being climate-ready.

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Climate

‘We can’t waste a drop.’ India is running out of water

Water crises are unfolding all across India, a product of population growth, modernization, climate change, mismanagement and the breakdown of traditional systems of distributing resources.

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Children

Menstrual cups: Study finds they're safe to use — and women like them

A new study finds that reusable menstrual cups are just as effective as tampons and pads and have no associated health risks.

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Justice

A small Gainesville farm works to bring food justice to the South

In 2013, this farm became the first Food Justice-certified farm in the South. It remains the only one, with five others across the U.S.

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Justice

Groundswell makes community solar affordable to low-income people

People banding together to fund a solar project is an increasingly popular way of accessing clean energy. But it can either be an exclusive project or an inclusive way to spread the benefits of clean energy. It depends how it’s structured.

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Pittsburgh

Smell something, say something: New smartphone app lets you rate your city's air quality

A Pittsburgh university's project to graphically bring together air-quality measurements and crowdsourced reporting of off odors has been released as a free mobile app.

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www.northbaybusinessjournal.com

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Climate

Researcher looks at climate change’s impact on plains

Climate change already impacts the Northern Great Plains in major ways, a University of Nebraska researcher says.

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Population

China’s demographic danger grows as births fall far below forecast

The end of China’s draconian one-child policy has failed to bring an expected boom in births, adding yet another headwind to the country’s economy and compounding worries about its long-term growth potential.

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Energy

Injured worker dies

One of four workers injured in last week's explosion at the MarkWest natural gas processing plant in Washington County, Pennsylvania, has died.

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From our Newsroom

Editorial: Keep the community

As COVID-19 upends life across the country, the natural world offers lessons in remaining resilient and emerging stronger

Video: Alex Honnold's foundation goes to Detroit

EPA letter criticizes Maryland over Chesapeake lawsuit threat

Texas regulators let coal companies get away with substandard cleanup, contamination

'Electric' adventurer heads for thin, clean air

Man creates pasta straws to combat plastic pollution

Boston’s Eastie Farm builds community and resilience on the front lines of climate change

‘We can’t waste a drop.’ India is running out of water

Menstrual cups: Study finds they're safe to use — and women like them

A small Gainesville farm works to bring food justice to the South

Groundswell makes community solar affordable to low-income people

Smell something, say something: New smartphone app lets you rate your city's air quality

Researcher looks at climate change’s impact on plains

China’s demographic danger grows as births fall far below forecast

Injured worker dies

John Harte: Breaking and restoring our life support system

Systems-thinker John Harte gives a roadmap on how we can use the same interconnectedness that is spurring catastrophe to instead promote health and sustainability.

Coronavirus, climate change, and the environment

A conversation on COVID-19 with the director of Harvard University's Center of Climate, Health and the Global Environment.

Paul R. Ehrlich: A pandemic, planetary reckoning, and a path forward

The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing environmental destruction and the deterioration of social and cultural systems into sharp focus. But we can learn from this.

Nate Hagens: Coronavirus exposes economic, cultural, environmental fallacies

Big-picture thinker Nate Hagens on the opportunities and constraints we face confronting coronavirus. His advice: Find your better self and play a role.

Agents of Change: Amplifying neglected voices in environmental health

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

Heroes of another kind

Covid-19 has made heroes out of millions of healthcare workers. Here are a few reporters that have earned our thanks, too.

As COVID-19 upends life across the country, the natural world offers lessons in remaining resilient and emerging stronger

Systems-thinker John Harte gives a roadmap on how we can use the same interconnectedness that is spurring catastrophe to instead promote health and sustainability.

A conversation on COVID-19 with the director of Harvard University's Center of Climate, Health and the Global Environment.

The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing environmental destruction and the deterioration of social and cultural systems into sharp focus. But we can learn from this.

Big-picture thinker Nate Hagens on the opportunities and constraints we face confronting coronavirus. His advice: Find your better self and play a role.

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

Covid-19 has made heroes out of millions of healthcare workers. Here are a few reporters that have earned our thanks, too.

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