Public health

Businesses discharging PFAS into Michigan’s waterways

Michigan businesses are discharging high levels of PFAS that move into the state's waterways on a daily basis. An MLive…

6 years ago

The Science Is Clear: Dirty Farm Water Is Making Us Sick

This story originally appeared on Reveal and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Photo: Getty Images William Whitt suffered…

6 years ago

2018 California Safe Drinking Water Data Challenge

4 months, 25+ machine-readable datasets, 15 events, $12,000 in ‘big checks’, and 20+ open data projects These are (some!) of…

6 years ago

The EPA can’t wait to reopen the mine that poisoned North Idaho

Photo: Tubbs Hill on Lake Coeur d'Alene. - Kyle Johnson for Bloomberg Businessweek The Bunker Hill Mine deposited 75 million…

6 years ago

Hormone-Disrupting Weed Killer Taints Tap Water for Millions in Corn Belt

Seasonal spikes of atrazine–a weed killer that can disrupt hormones and harm developing fetuses–contaminate drinking water in corn-growing areas of…

6 years ago

‘What did we do?’ Families anxious about chemicals found in tap water

Photo: Emergency response teams hand out bottled water to residents at Parchment High School. (CNN)It's been about three weeks since…

6 years ago

Study: Flint’s lead-poisoned water had ‘horrifyingly large’ effect on fetal deaths

Flint resident LaFonzo Williams, 19, prays on Jan. 14, 2016, in Lansing, Mich., amid more than 150 Flint and Detroit…

6 years ago

Human Medicine Loading River Creatures With Dozens of Drugs

Spiders, such as the one pictured here, are found in riparian environments all over the world. They build their webs…

6 years ago

In Echo of Flint, Lead Water Crisis Now Hits Newark, New Jersey

Photo: Shana Gilbert and her daughter, Malaysa Ingram, received water filters at Paradise Baptist Church in Newark this month. The…

6 years ago

Proof humans ARE eating plastic

Experts find nine types of microplastic in every sample from human guts Sources could include the eating of fish or…

6 years ago