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Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...
This essay is part of a series on environmental health. Everywhere they look, they find particles of pollution, like infinite spores in an endless contagion field. Scientists call that field the ...
Insects are all around us – an ant on the sidewalk, a bee buzzing by, a butterfly floating on the breeze – and they shape the world we experience. They pollinate flowering plants, decompose waste, ...
A man in glasses looks into a fish tank in which fish of many colors are swimming. Ecotoxicologist Bob Wong studies how fish change when exposed to the antidepressant medication fluoxetine. Credit: ...
As the war in Iran enters its fourth week, the costs are adding up. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Doug Weir, with the Conflict and War Observatory, about impacts to human health and the environment.