Janelle Adsit

Toxins in Brooklyn schools

Local spotlight: This week, schools will begin distributing vaccination consent forms to parents. NYC children are eligible for in-school, free-of-charge H1N1 flu shots. Read more. Swine flu isn't the only thing NYC parents have to...

NYU student receives $10K toward a renewable energy plan

NYU student Amanda Hass is the recipient of the 2009 Focus Roots Fellowship. The Fellowship includes a $10,000 award for a project of Hass and Erin Coffey's design. Namely, Coffey and Hass will collaborate with Navajo leaders...

Woman paralyzed by eating ground beef

Local spotlight: In Staten Island more than any other borough, lives are lost to breast cancer. And the breast cancer mortality rate is higher than rate than most of the state and nation. Read more. A Washington Heights school...

Rhododendrons' connection to landslides and more

Local spotlight: In order to improve air quality, Commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey authorized nearly $9 million to 1) incentivize ocean vessel operators to use low-sulfur fuel and participate in a speed reduction...

Feces, synthetic trees, and biochar

News highlights for the week of September 13-19: Local spotlight: One of Ithaca's dog parks is now composting poop. Read more.(Lest you worry about Fido's poop to the exclusion of your own, Christine MacDonald reports...

Contaminated drinking water revealed

Local spotlight: "Sea level may rise faster near New York than at most other densely populated ports due to local effects of gravity, water density and ocean currents, according to four new forecasts of melting ice sheets." Read...

Using DNA to catch polluters

Local spotlight: A new Brooklyn park has its roots in a landfill. And it's opening soon with some of the best views of the city. Still listed by the state as a toxic waste site, but ecological rehabilitators are...

Environmental health 101: How can I protect myself from radon exposure?

Radon has no visible signs, and it can build up over time. It is responsible for more than 20,000 U.S. deaths each year and is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Because any home may have a...

Environmental health 101: What is nature-deficit disorder?

A term coined by Richard Louv in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods, nature-deficit disorder names the link between behavioral problems (including obesity, loneliness, depression, attention problems and greater social isolation) and minimal time spent outside. In...

Environmental health 101: How can I prevent a roach infestation?

Make your home a haven for you and an unsuitable environment for one of NYC's most pesky inhabitants. Here's how: Cockroaches thrive in warm and humid spaces. For this reason (and many others), it's a good idea...

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