Prenatal Exposure to Pollution Cause Challenges for Children azocleantech.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from azocleantech.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study.
A plant scientist explains why high pollen counts can raise your COVID-19 risk oregonlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oregonlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Study demonstrates the lasting effects of redlining
Historically redlined neighborhoods are more likely to have a paucity of greenspace today compared to other neighborhoods.
The study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, demonstrates the lasting effects of redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s that established and exacerbated racial residential segregation in the United States. Results appear in
Environmental Health Perspectives.
In the 1930s, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) assigned risk grades to neighborhoods across the country based on racial demographics and other factors. Hazardous areas often those whose residents included people of color were outlined in red on HOLC maps.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019
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New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site.However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total..I have to assume that s in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they ll eventually correct it.Regardless, whatever the a