A shortage of mental-health providers and other barriers to proving a disabling condition can make qualifying for benefits ...

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Food production around the world is becoming more unstable, with crop yields varying more widely from year to year, scientists warn. Hotter and drier conditions from human-caused climate change are ...

Women who experience high temperatures during their pregnancies are at greater risk for health harms — and where they live can worsen their risks, a recent study says. Published in the Journal of ...

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In the spring of 1977, federal workplace-safety regulators were confronted with a grim government study. Current and former employees of two Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plants in Ohio had been using ...

This story was co-published by Grist. Billions of dollars in public money are beginning to flow to seven “hydrogen hubs” around the country — regional nerve centers for a potentially clean fuel that ...

A cracked pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, released a flammable white vapor that quickly ignited, sending a large cloud of black smoke across surrounding communities on August 6 ...

The Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center in Bentonville, Arkansas, eliminated or significantly reduced exposures to six major classes of chemicals when its new campus opened in 2019. (Sadie ...