Integrating Low-cost Sensor Systems and Networks to Enhance Air Quality Applications
Low-cost air quality sensor systems (LCS) are emerging technologies for policy-relevant air quality analysis, including pollution levels, source identification, and forecasting. This report discusses LCS use in networks and alongside other data sources for comprehensive air quality applications, complementing other WMO publications on LCS operating principles, calibration, performance assessment, and data communication.
Resisting Detached Datafication: What Toxic Prisons Teach Us about the Imperative of Restorative/Transformative Data Science for Environmental and Social Justice
Prisons and other carceral facilities are exposed to a variety of environmental hazards such as air pollution, poor water quality, proximity to hazardous waste facilities, and extreme weather events – a pattern referred to as toxic prisons.
President Biden Announces Key Appointments to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
President Biden announced his intent to appoint 12 additional members to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC), which is a federal advisory committee that President Biden established under Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021, on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.
How an Arizona Medical Anthropologist Uses Oral Histories to Add Depth to Environmental Science
Separating people’s lived experiences from scientific data obscures the bigger picture of environmental injustice. With ‘Voices Unheard,’ Denise Moreno-Ramirez enriches research with human stories.
NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health reinvigorates network
Community engagement experts gathered at annual meeting to share strategies and opportunities for engaging diverse teams in public health.
Tighter regulations are reducing the risk of lead exposure in public housing
A new study finds that tougher inspection standards have led to lower blood lead levels among tenants — although any exposure is still too much.
The Cost of a Mango in January
Alexa White, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, investigates sustainable agriculture and has earned recognition for her wider efforts in support of environmental justice.
Clearing the Air: Gas Stove Emissions and Direct Health Effects
Pollutant levels spike as soon as the stove is switched on. In a minivan parked at a two-story home in the wealthy enclave of Piedmont, California, researchers watch as their instruments display rapid increases inside the home in carbon monoxide , methane, nitrous oxide, and nitrogen dioxide.
‘We are the guinea pigs’: Arizona mining project sparks concerns for air and water
South32’s project was fast-tracked by the Biden administration, but residents are worried about its impact on a fragile ecosystem,
Health and dignity for Michigan farmworkers
In this podcast episode, two researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health outline the health and safety challenges faced by farmworkers in the state of Michigan.
A Nation of Scientists
When a river flowing through the Navajo Nation turned toxic from the 2015 Gold King Mine spill, scientists turned to tribal members for help. The resulting Diné Exposure Project is now being studied as a model of community engaged research.
These 10 scientists are on the cusp of changing the world
It’s the Brilliant 10 class of 2023.