health and safety
Alec Baldwin’s magic bullet: The rush to ‘Rust’
February 5, 2024Baldwin as producer was at least partly responsible for a set that, because of skimping on a sparse budget and rushing into production, was a maze of tensions, a tempest ready to burst.
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People’s World special report: Next East Palestine waiting to happen
February 2, 2024The consensus among railroad unions and workers is that it will happen again.
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Un estudio encuentra niveles alarmantemente altos de ‘sustancias químicas eternas’ en los estuarios
January 29, 2024Un nuevo estudio ha descubierto que los pequeños estuarios costeros contienen concentraciones de sustancias perfluoroalquiladas (PFAS) "sustancias químicas permanentes" lo suficientemente altas como para indicar un problema mundial.
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Study finds alarmingly high levels of “forever chemicals” in small estuaries
January 29, 2024“The increasing proportion of wastewater to fresh water in streams, a trend projected to extrapolate to temperate regions due to climate change, consequently leads to chronic exposure of estuaries to elevated PFAS concentrations."
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Global warming linked to a spate of rare disease outbreaks in 2023
January 4, 2024The temperature-sensitive pathogens that caught U.S. communities off guard are a grim preview of the future.
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