What are environmental health hazards? Humans share an interactive relationship with the environment. Biological, physical, chemical, biomechanical, and psychosocial factors in the environment affect ...

This episode is from WHRO’s Spotlight Earth series. The video explores environmental hazards. In this Spotlight Earth episode, you will explore environmental hazards that can impact our health, both ...

Environmental racism is a type of inequality where people in Communities of Color face a disproportionate risk of exposure to pollution and related health conditions. One way this happens is through ...

In November, a two-alarm fire at Delaware Valley Recycling in Southwest Philadelphia sent thick, black smoke into the air, visible across the city. The smell of burning rubber — caused by burning ...

This funding opportunity seeks to advance the understanding of climate hazard (e.g. extreme heat, sea level rise, flooding and extreme weather events) effects on communities that are overburdened1 by ...

“The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves.” – Wangari Maathai As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds ...

The environmental justice movement seeks to critically examine the climate change crisis through a health equity lens. This involves calling attention to the urgent need to dismantle environmental ...

Santa Barbara County just unveiled a new roadmap to protect those who suffer most from environmental hazards. The draft Environmental Justice Element was created through outreach in the county’s ...

For more than half a century, 441 Bauchet Street has been the address where Los Angeles’ most stark social and environmental inequalities converge. It’s the location of L.A.’s Men’s Central Jail, the ...