Children’s Health
Project TENDR Briefing Paper: Protecting the Developing Brains of Children from Plastics and Toxic Chemicals in Plastics
One in six children in the United States has a developmental disability, including learning disabilities, intellectual impairment, autism, and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and the overall prevalence of most of these disorders increased from 2009-2017. Children living in poverty have higher prevalence for all developmental disabilities. Prevalence rates by race and ethnicity vary…
Read MoreProtecting the health of future generations in the arctic through community-based participatory research and action
The Arctic is a hemispheric sink for persistent industrial chemicals and pesticides that are transported on atmospheric and oceanic currents from lower latitudes through a process known as global distillation. These chemicals bioaccumulate in the bodies of fish, wildlife, and people of the north. Far from pristine, the Arctic contains some of the most highly…
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