You can’t expect to have healthy people in a dirty environment.
Category: environmental health
environmental health
William Schlesinger
agriculture, air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, food, natural habitat, population growth, sustainability
agriculture, air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, food, natural habitat, population growth, sustainability
Overpopulation
Only with a population growth rate of zero might we have some hope for planetary stability.
William Schlesinger
agriculture, environmental health, faculty, food, lakes and streams, toxicology, water pollution
agriculture, environmental health, faculty, food, lakes and streams, toxicology, water pollution
Atrazine
Atrazine resembles the growth hormones of other organisms, including frogs and potentially humans.
William Schlesinger
agriculture, air pollution, environmental health, faculty, natural habitat, pesticides, toxicology, water
agriculture, air pollution, environmental health, faculty, natural habitat, pesticides, toxicology, water
One toke over the line sweet Jesus
Marijuana production by agribusiness will likely reduce direct impacts on nature
Carbon Dioxide and Mental Health
we should pay more attention to indoor CO2 levels
Airborne Plastics
The microparticles in soil and sediments may persist indefinitely, casting a sedimentary record of human activity on the planet.
William Schlesinger
environmental health, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty, renewable energy
environmental health, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty, renewable energy
The Science and The Anti-Science
We are seeing an increasing denial of science by the general public—often spread by cell phone and social media.
The Smell of the City
With the shutdown of much of the economy, we can see the human impact on air quality, and the underlying volatilization of chemicals from our activities.
William Schlesinger
air pollution, environmental health, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty
air pollution, environmental health, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty
Behind the Smoke Screen
When the dust settles, the roll-back of air pollution regulations is likely to take a larger toll on society than COVID-19.
COVID-19
Not since the plague, also known as the Black Death, arrived in Europe in the early 1300s has the human population been more vulnerable to exotic disease.