Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Key Takeaways Environmental health is about how things like air, water, and food affect our health.Poor air quality can cause health problems like low birth ...

The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine was established to provide a mechanism for parties interested in environmental health from the academic, industrial, and federal ...

A large proportion of childhood diseases worldwide results from environmental causes and climate change magnifies the effects on children, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) noted in its policy ...

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires Border Wall Closes in on ...

Amber Wang, a board member for Downwinders at Risk, holds a sign reading "property city of Dallas" as she stands with other activists outside of shingle mountain after a giant countdown clean-up ...

For four years, the Environmental Protection Agency made environmental justice one of its biggest priorities, working to improve health conditions in heavily-polluted communities often made up largely ...

When it comes to technology, lawmakers will be dealing with problems both new and old: Social media continues to face public critique for its effect on children's' mental health, while the risks and ...

A recent Yale opinion poll showed that not only are Mecklenburg residents worried about climate change, but the majority also believe that local elected officials should do more to address global ...

A new data tool from researchers at UCLA highlights significant environmental health disparities between Latino and white neighborhoods in L.A., providing critical insights amid escalating public ...