Science, Research & News
Air
ScienceAdvances: Cleaning Products Can Negatively Impact Your Health
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America on Pet Allergies
Vox: Gas stoves can generate unsafe levels of indoor air pollution
CDC full list of asthma and allergy rates in USA
Architectural Digest: Unhealthy Off-Gasses in the Home
The CDC on how to get air quality information where you live.
The CDC: “Who is most affected by poor air quality?”
The EPA on an introduction to indoor air quality.
The CPSC: “A Guide to Indoor Air Quality.”
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America: “What is indoor air quality?”
The EPA on what a HEPA filter is and what the MERV rating system identifies.
Water
- VIDEO: ABC News: “Forever Chemicals:” Detected in water systems of nearly 2,800 US cities.
- VIDEO: CBS News: Study Finds Chemicals in Drinking Water in 43 States
- VIDEO: Environmental Working Group Reports on PFAS in Drinking Water
- VIDEO: Dirty Water: Danger from the Tap
- VIDEO: CBC/Radio-Canada presents “Here’s what’s in your bottled water.”
- VIDEO: CBC Video report on Bottled Water research project
- VIDEO: TIME Magazine Video Report of What’s In Bottled Water
The Lancet Neurology on on neurotoxicants in water supply and effects on children and pregnant women
Updated Map of Forever Chemicals Found in US Drinking Water Supply
PFAs Project Lab: Forever Chemicals Research and Findings
Frontiers in Chemistry: Synthetic Polymer Contamination in Bottled Water
Clean Water Action: Bottled Water: The Human Health Consequences of Drinking from Plastic
NCBI: Water Distribution System Deficiencies and Gastrointestinal Illness
CDC on Community Water Treatment
CDC: Choosing home water filters
Scientific American: Forever Chemicals Are Widespread in U.S. Drinking Water
NOVA: Toxic synthetic ‘forever chemicals’ are in our water and on our plates
The Guardian: EPA considers placing limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
Forbes Magazine on ‘Forever Chemicals” in the Water Supply
Environmental Working Group on Forever Chemicals
Nitrates in Water May Lower Birth Weight
The Water Quality Association details PFAs
The EPA on basic information about PFAs
The EPA: “Reducing PFA’s in Drinking Water with Treatment Technologies”
The EPA: a synopsis on the research and management of PFAs
The ATSDR: frequently asked questions about PFAs
The Washington Post: the Problem with “Forever Chemicals”
Los Angeles Times on contamination of California’s Water Supply
CBC News: “Coca-Cola pulls Dasani launch in Europe.”
Conserve Energy Future: 25 reasons why plastic water bottles should be banned immediately.
BestLife: The 25 U.S cities with the worst drinking water
Patch on the cancer-linked contaminants found in Orange Counties drinking water
Circadian Light
Wildfires
NRDC: Wildfires Can Spark Widespread Contamination of Public Water Supplies
National Geographic: Wildfire Smoke May Increase Risk of Covid-19
CDC on Wildfire Smoke and Human Health
San Francisco Chronicle: Health Risks of California Wildfire Smoke
EPA’s “Review of Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter” Including Wildfire Smoke
Seniors
Circadian-Effective Lighting Found to Reduce Falls in Seniors by 43%
Harvard: Nationwide study of U.S. seniors strengthens link between air pollution and premature death
NCBI: Adverse effects of outdoor pollution in the elderly
Annual Reviews: Ambient Air Pollution, Noise, and Late-Life Cognitive Decline and Dementia Risk
Quartz: Legal levels of air pollution are killing the elderly
Pollution
The CDC explains particle pollution
National Geographic: Air pollution linked to bipolar disorder, depression
The New Yorker: “The Hidden Pollution In Our Homes.”
Curbed: “Can the right home make you live longer?”
The CDC on the EPA’s six criteria air pollutants.
The American Lung Association: “Air Pollutants and Health.”
On Health: “What’s Causing Your Indoor Air Pollution?”
Air Quality Life Index on How Global Air Pollution Cuts Life Expectancy
Children
EWG: Drinking Water and Children’s Health
Environmental Health Perspectives Study on the “Wheeze” in children’s asthma from air pollution
Science Direct: Polluted air and risk of childhood obesity
The New York Times on the toxic compound that can cause fetal brain damage.
Translation Pediatrics: The effect of air pollution on children’s sleep
Covid-19
National Geographic: Wildfire Smoke May Increase Risk of Covid-19
Science News on Covid’s Potential Airborne Increase
Smithsonian Magazine: “Air Pollution May Make Covid-19 Symptoms Worse.”
Wired on the polluted “Sacrifice Zones” as areas with higher number of Coronavirus deaths.
MedRxiv on the correlation between exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality.
BBC: “How Air Pollution Exacerbates COVID-19.”
Harvard T.H. Chan: “Air Pollution Linked with Higher COVID-19 Death Rates.”
