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Lack of big tech transparency hides reality of data center environmental costs
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (193+ words) Your gateway to environmental health knowledge Join the Environmental Health News community Data centers are estimated to use hundreds of billions of liters of water and emit millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year, but a new article published…...
Toxic chemicals and climate change work together to harm fertility across species - EHN
9+ hour, 5+ min ago (182+ words) Your gateway to environmental health knowledge Join the Environmental Health News community In a recent review published in NPJ Emerging Contaminants, researchers examine how toxic chemicals can reduce fertility in both humans and wildlife, and how these effects are worsened…...
Former EPA staff slams rollback of federal pollution protections
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (118+ words) Your gateway to environmental health knowledge Join the Environmental Health News community A new report called out the Trump administration's many efforts to roll back pollution protections, warning increased exposure to toxic chemicals is hazardous to human health in Nevada…...
Scientific review finds underwater EMF exposure can affect aquatic life
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (147+ words) Your gateway to environmental health knowledge Join the Environmental Health News community A recent systematic review published in Marine Environmental Research by Elizabeth James et al. examined 35 years of peer-reviewed studies on underwater electromagnetic (EMF) radiation exposure and found that…...
Water from plastic bottles - including expensive brands - contains more chemicals than water store in glass
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (196+ words) Your gateway to environmental health knowledge Join the Environmental Health News community In a recent study published in Analytica Chimica Acta, researchers used new methods for detecting diverse endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in drinking water to test multiple bottled water…...
U. S. regulations fail to protect wildlife from cell tower and wireless radiation, science review finds
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (266+ words) Your gateway to environmental health knowledge Join the Environmental Health News community A science and policy review published in Frontiers in Public Health documents how increasing levels of non-ionizing electromagnetic (EMF) radiation in the environment, including the wireless radiation from…...
Methane leaks from fossil fuel sites are going untracked and unchecked
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (164+ words) Your gateway to environmental health knowledge Join the Environmental Health News community Odorless and hard to measure, methane is leaking from fossil fuel sites " active and abandoned alike " at far higher rates than reported, contributing significantly to climate change. Umair…...