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Mindfulness for Kids: What It Is and 7 Tips To Start
Life can feel unnerving in a seemingly endless stream of stressful world events announced in worrisome headlines. That’s true if…
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Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests
Kelp forests grow along more than one-quarter of the world’s coastlines, and are among the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But…
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Researchers decode retinal circuits for circadian rhythm, pupillary light response: Photoreceptor cells in mice drive vision and non-vision functions using distinct circuits in the eye
The eye’s light-sensing retina taps different circuits depending on whether it is generating image-forming vision or carrying out a non-vision…
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Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Brett Kelman Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed…
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Georgia Power to recycle coal ash from Plant Bowen – The Current
ATLANTA – Georgia Power announced plans Wednesday to recycle more than 9 million tons of coal ash stored at Plant…
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What’s the best way to pick a nursing home for a loved one?
By Thomas Goldsmith When the time comes near to choose a nursing home for a loved one, the ideal path…
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Nasal Spray for Allergies: What to Know and How to Choose
If you deal with seasonal allergies and don’t use a nasal spray, we’ve got just one question for you: What are you…
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PSA: You Can Turn Credit Card Points Into Gas Cards for Abortion Seekers
The Supreme Court’s devastating overturning of Roe v. Wade last month means that abortion will likely be illegal or heavily…
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Stericycle shutters its North Salt Lake plant after 33 years of incinerating medical waste
After 33 years of burning Utah’s medical waste on the edge of growing Davis County subdivisions, Stericycle’s North Salt Lake…
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Carolina Abortion Fund helps patients sort out logistics and pay for their procedure
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Anna wasn’t sure if she wanted to be a mom. She was sure that she wasn’t happy…
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Poll: 75% of Pennsylvanians accept evidence of climate change | StateImpact Pennsylvania
Rachel McDevitt Rachel McDevitt is a reporter for StateImpact Pennsylvania at WITF. Rachel joined WITF in 2017 as the…
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‘A subtraction problem:’ A shrinking Colorado River faces sharp, sudden cuts – The Nevada Independent
Good morning, and welcome to the Indy Environment newsletter. As always, we want to hear from readers. Let us know…
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Does extreme weather threaten the hazardous waste sites that border Lake Michigan? | Great Lakes Now
Climate change-fueled weather such as extreme storms will provide a direct threat to contaminated waste storage sites, nuclear power plants…
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What overturning Roe v. Wade means for pregnant people in pollution hotspots
For many pregnant people in Baytown, Texas, there aren’t a whole lot of options. That’s not just in terms of…
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Here’s How School Shooting Survivors Are Healing, Helping, and Fostering Hope
Trauma can be extremely difficult to process, especially for those who endured gun violence within the very place they are…
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A Post-‘Roe’ World in Georgia Will Mean More Restrictions — And More Political Battles
Sam Whitehead ATLANTA — Jerisha Morton didn’t realize she was pregnant until about six weeks into her pregnancy. She soon…
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Federal money could boost state and municipal recycling programs in NH – New Hampshire Bulletin
Brian Patnoe, who runs the transfer station in Lancaster, is tired of seeing materials that could be reused or recycled…
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‘Representation Is Huge’: Trans, Non-Binary Pro Runner Nikki Hiltz Signs With Lululemon
It’s so funny, in my career, big things usually happen in June—that’s just the way our schedule is [in track…
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Are Subsistence Fishers at Greater Risk of Exposure to PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’?
Say, who is 23, arrived in Syracuse in 2014 after spending nine years in a Thai refugee camp. He had…
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Rep. Cori Bush Boosts Biden’s Efforts to Fight Climate Change With Executive Authority
President Joe Biden’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis through executive action got an assist this week, courtesy of Missouri Rep.…
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Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Of the many feats Harriet Tubman accomplished, none awe me more as an historian than the estimated 13 trips she…
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Bitcoin’s Intensive Energy Demands Are Sparking a Crypto Backlash
The first time Jackie Sawicky learned that a Bitcoin mining operation was coming to Corsicana, a rural Texas city 60…
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Virginia governor rolls back plastics phase-out | Energy News Network
At first whiff, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order centered on curbing food waste and boosting recycling across Virginia might…
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Upfront costs prevent many from upgrading appliances | Energy News Network
Many individuals and households have at least one outdated appliance — a refrigerator, a water heater or a window-mounted air…
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Global Warming: Why the problem is worse – and solutions simpler – than you thought
How do you cut through the fog around climate change and get to a solution? John Harte, a physicist-turned-ecologist at…
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Without Sylvia Earle, We’d Be Living on Google Dirt
“Do you like to breathe?” This is a question that the marine biologist and deep-sea explorer Sylvia Earle asks frequently.…
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A ‘Living Shoreline’ Takes Root in New York’s Jamaica Bay – Inside Climate News
A flotilla of water birds bobbed on West Pond as hundreds of tree swallows swooped overhead, their blue iridescent backs…
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Wildfire in New Jersey Could Become the State’s Largest in Years
A fast-moving wildfire in a remote section of a state forest in New Jersey was threatening to become the state’s…
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California Towns Scramble to Prevent Next Wildfire Catastrophe
In December 2018, one month after the Camp Fire killed 85 residents and nearly leveled Paradise, residents of Nevada County,…
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Sobering Lessons in Untying the Knot of a Homeless Crisis
PORTLAND, Ore. — Michelle Farris never expected to become homeless, but here she was, sifting through garbage and towering piles…
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When a loved one dies at a nursing home, families face mazes and mirages in search for answers
By Thomas Goldsmith After a staff member at an Arden nursing home registered positive for COVID on Sept. 16, 2020,…
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‘The return of land to Indigenous people is key’: Q&A with Shinnecock Kelp Farm’s Tela Troge
A group of women of the Shinnecock Nation manage the first Indigenous-owned kelp farm on the United States’ East Coast,…
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Water in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill contains PFAS above new EPA health advisory levels
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Elizabeth Biser (right) and Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox tour the Wilmington-area…
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Brevard County sees low levels, a potential risk to manatees
In the wake of the worst year for manatee deaths on record, Florida wildlife officials last week found yet another…
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Four cities get aid to test wells after questions raised about petroleum cleanup standards
Four Minnesota cities will undertake independent investigations of their drinking water supplies after a lawsuit by a former state employee…
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The Warhol connects the exhibit of Paola Pivi with conservation and environmental art – The Allegheny Front
There’s a hidden gem tucked in Butler County. An art installation that reclaimed an abandoned coal mine for native plant…
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Every Hour, This Gas Storage Station Sends Half a Ton of Methane Into the Atmosphere – Inside Climate News
PETAL, Miss.—The Petal Gas Storage Station lies halfway between the winding banks of the Leaf River and the International Checker…
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Two Tennessee Abortion Clinics, Awaiting High-Court Ruling, Grapple With Uncertainty
Victoria Knight KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Corinne Rovetti is worried about what will happen to the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health…
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Activist looks ahead as Shell’s Beaver County ethane cracker goes online – The Allegheny Front
Ever since Shell’s plan to build a petrochemical plant along the Ohio River was announced, activists have been working to…
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In lieu of county action, 35 communities outside Pittsburgh are now closer to passing climate plans
A new report provides a road map and emissions data for Pittsburgh suburbs that want to reduce their greenhouse gas…
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Why small NC mountain city is taking on nation’s largest hospital system
By Shelby Harris, Carolina Public Press A small mountain city is challenging the nation’s largest hospital system in court. Brevard…
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Big Sewickley Creek plan pits driller against watershed defenders
ECONOMY — State environmental regulators are still reviewing a natural gas driller’s latest proposal to drain water from Big Sewickley…
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Surveying the Ohio River for plastic nurdles, as Shell readies to open cracker – The Allegheny Front
Shell plans to begin operations this summer at its new industrial complex along the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.…
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Study finds racial, geographic inequities among recipients of NC disability services
By Taylor Knopf For North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities, getting mental health treatment and other services that enable…
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Democrats in the California Senate Could Make or Break Refinery Pollution Bill
Legislation supported by air regulators in Los Angeles and the Bay Area would increase fines for oil and gas refineries…
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Learn about sustainable practices on annual resilient forest tour this summer
People interested in learning about sustainable forest management practices can gain some first-hand experience this summer by joining a tour…
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Biden’s Been in Office for More Than 500 Days. He Still Hasn’t Appointed a Top Official to Oversee Coal Mine Reclamation – Inside Climate News
Environmentalists and representatives from coal mining communities across the nation on Tuesday pressed the Biden administration to finally appoint someone…
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Saving a Texan Bayou, ‘16 Bottles’ at a Time
No matter how much Bayou Dave hunts, his quarry never goes away. He finds it each time he sets out…
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Growing sprawl in WA woods comes with high wildfire risk – InvestigateWest
Policymakers and homeowners are scrambling to manage the so-called ‘wildland-urban interface’ to mitigate the threat At 9 on a Saturday…
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‘Vomiting. The loss of strength’: Southwest heat drives health fears
Placeholder while article actions load LAS VEGAS — Cristian Sanchez’s crew was on the job site by 6 a.m. Saturday,…
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