Posts
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Why We Celebrate Earth Day
On Earth Day and every day, the Earth Institute works to understand and protect our planet.
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A Study Looks at How to Disinfect Your Mask at Home
It also compares the effectiveness of medical-grade masks with homemade ones, and tests the feasibility of improving masks with homemade nose clips.
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Waterfront Development Added Billions to Property Values Exposed to Hurricane Florence
Rapid development in flood-prone zones during recent decades helped boost the amount of property exposed to the 2018 hurricane substantially, a new study says.
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New Data Suggest COVID-19 Is Shifting the Burden of Energy Costs to Households
Apartment-level electricity use has increased under New York’s stay-at-home order. It could make matters worse for households already struggling economically.
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We Were So Young and Naive. And We Got Things Done.
A journalist looks back on his efforts to cover the first Earth Day.
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What the First Earth Day Achieved
And what we can learn from its success.
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My Neighborhood and Coronavirus, a Month Later
Scenes from an Upper West Side neighborhood in the grip of the pandemic.
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Absent: Prioritizing Recovery for Our Nation’s Schools
COVID-19 is exacerbating some of education’s long-neglected social issues and inequalities.
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Social Distance, Sustainable Cities and Building Public Health Capacity
The return to a normal way of life and to renewing our push toward sustainable cities requires that we develop an apolitical, science-driven public health capacity.
