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June 2, 2021 at 1:48 pm

Hundreds of lakes in U.S., Europe are losing oxygen

Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found. And the...

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FILE – In this Wednesday, July 4, 2012 file photo, Dave Bailey, right, gulps water from a bottle while hanging inside of a tent on the sidewalk with his sons Daquan Bailey, 14, left, and Davandre Bailey, 17, while beating the heat on Fourth of July in Paterson, N.J. According to a study published Tuesday, May 25, 2021 inÂ Nature Communications, during the summer of 2017 in nearly all large urban areas, people of color are exposed to more extreme urban heat than white people. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) NY984 NY984

May 25, 2021 at 8:00 am

People of color more exposed to heat islands, study finds

"Heat islands" are parts of cities with higher average temperatures. The study based on 2017 data found that, in nearly all large urban areas, the...

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April 29, 2021 at 9:15 am

People of color more exposed than whites to air pollution

Across America, people of color are exposed to more air pollution than whites from industry, vehicles, construction and many other sources, a new study has...

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April 13, 2021 at 6:41 am

EXPLAINER: The law and science behind the CDC’s eviction ban

When the U.S. government enacted a ban on evictions, it did so through an unlikely agency: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC...

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