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Babies born in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ record lower birth weight, preterm births – report

New report shows babies born in notorious industrial corridor experience low birth weight at three times the national average.

The coal plant next door
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The coal plant next door

Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs.
Life-saving drinking water disinfectants have a “dark side”
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Life-saving drinking water disinfectants have a “dark side”

Disinfecting drinking water against pathogens is necessary, but by-products from the process are a ubiquitous — and likely growing — problem across the U.S. Solutions exist, though.

He saw a Marshall Islands nuclear bomb test up close. It’s haunted him since 1952

He saw a Marshall Islands nuclear bomb test up close. It’s haunted him since 1952

After watching an island get vaporized, Alan Jones and the crew on the Horizon were doused in a shower of radioactive fallout.

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How climate change could be causing miscarriages in Bangladesh
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How climate change could be causing miscarriages in Bangladesh

Rising sea levels mean women in Bangladesh are drinking ever saltier water, threatening unborn babies.
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