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'There’s no safe level': Glades sugarcane burns continue despite link to tenfold mortality increase

A Florida scientist has warned that sugarcane burns in Palm Beach County contribute to up to six deaths per year — and that there is "no safe level" of exposure to toxic particles from the contentious practice.

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'There’s no safe level': Glades sugarcane burns continue despite link to tenfold mortality increase

Displaced and distraught: East Palestine remains at risk and without answers

EHN visited residents still picking up the pieces four months after a catastrophic train derailment dumped toxics in East Palestine, Ohio.

Opinion: Restoring our waters is restoring ourselves

Using water quality research to bring healing and sovereignty to the Apsáalooke.

Opinión: Restaurar nuestras aguas es restaurarnos a nosotros mismos

Usar la investigación de la calidad del agua para sanar y dar soberanía a los Apsáalooke.

EHN welcomes two summer interns to focus on plastic pollution and Spanish-speaking communities

Allison Guy, a longtime writer and communicator in the environmental nonprofit space, and Andy Damián-Correa, a student majoring in bilingual Spanish journalism at San Francisco State University, will join our team for summer.

Adrift: Communities on the front lines of pesticide exposure fight for change

Rural communities of color and farmworkers are disproportionately exposed to some of the most dangerous chemicals used in agriculture.

Fighting "A New War on Cancer"

Environmental Health Sciences reporter Kristina Marusic's new book on cancer prevention is a story of hope and what we can do to prevent harmful exposures.