by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Sarah Trent focuses on the way that Vancouver, Wash., city officials communicated with the public about the results of their tests on the city’s water for the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and the risks they pose, especially to young kids....
by Susan Keown | Nov 19, 2023 | ScienceWire
Streams in the Seattle area, whose population has exploded in recent decades, are nevertheless showing signs of improving health, Isabella Breda writes for the Seattle Times. Recent research by King County demonstrates that populations of aquatic invertebrates are...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) wrote a piece for Time Magazine on the crisis of access to clean water and sanitation in the U.S., where more than 2 million do not have indoor plumbing and many more do not have safe drinking water. Keying off of the recent environmental...
by Susan Keown | Dec 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the Tennessee Lookout, Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) co-authored a feature on the long-term impact of a chemical plant on its Memphis neighborhood and the people who live there. The company, Velsicol, still technically operates the plant in order to clean up the “legacy...
by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In an op-ed for Wired, Jenny Morber (@JRMorber) writes that Russia should be held liable for the environmental harm it is causing in Ukraine, though the international legal and political systems don’t make that easy. Morber explains how Ukranian scientists have been...
