Amaranta Mondragon
@amaranta-mondragon.bsky.social
Pessimism of the intellect
Optimism of the will
Optimism of the will
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One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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Having access to AC could mean faring better when faced with wildfire smoke.
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Read more in our September issue: bit.ly/Eos-Sept2025
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Read more in our September issue: bit.ly/Eos-Sept2025
Access to Air-Conditioning May Affect Wildfire-Related Health Outcomes - Eos
A new study found that access to air-conditioning is a stronger predictor of emergency department visits related to PM2.5 exposure from smoke than factors such as race, age, and socioeconomic status.
eos.org
August 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Having access to AC could mean faring better when faced with wildfire smoke.
eos.org/articles/acc...
Read more in our September issue: bit.ly/Eos-Sept2025
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Read more in our September issue: bit.ly/Eos-Sept2025
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By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
(Published April)
(Published April)
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
August 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
(Published April)
(Published April)
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Officials in the Biden administration publicly acknowledged the danger presented by an exodus of experienced wildland firefighters.
The Trump administration has taken a different approach — claiming to have solved the problem while simultaneously exacerbating it.
The Trump administration has taken a different approach — claiming to have solved the problem while simultaneously exacerbating it.
The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs.
DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.
www.propublica.org
July 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Officials in the Biden administration publicly acknowledged the danger presented by an exodus of experienced wildland firefighters.
The Trump administration has taken a different approach — claiming to have solved the problem while simultaneously exacerbating it.
The Trump administration has taken a different approach — claiming to have solved the problem while simultaneously exacerbating it.
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Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome.
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Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos
Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.
eos.org
July 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome.
buff.ly/WTgm4IC
Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
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Although politics and health policy are often deeply entangled, this dim opinion of health insurance companies’ influence is an area of notable partisan agreement. Roughly equal shares of Democrats and Republicans express this view.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Although politics and health policy are often deeply entangled, this dim opinion of health insurance companies’ influence is an area of notable partisan agreement. Roughly equal shares of Democrats and Republicans express this view.
www.pewresearch.org/...
www.pewresearch.org/...
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🚨New Series: Global Epidemiology of Chronic Respiratory Disease
This Series focuses on the global epidemiology of #asthma, #COPD, and #ILD, and a Policy Review on #tobacco, the main, avoidable risk factor of lung disease, completes the Series.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/series-do/gl...
This Series focuses on the global epidemiology of #asthma, #COPD, and #ILD, and a Policy Review on #tobacco, the main, avoidable risk factor of lung disease, completes the Series.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/series-do/gl...
July 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🚨New Series: Global Epidemiology of Chronic Respiratory Disease
This Series focuses on the global epidemiology of #asthma, #COPD, and #ILD, and a Policy Review on #tobacco, the main, avoidable risk factor of lung disease, completes the Series.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/series-do/gl...
This Series focuses on the global epidemiology of #asthma, #COPD, and #ILD, and a Policy Review on #tobacco, the main, avoidable risk factor of lung disease, completes the Series.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/series-do/gl...
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NEW: Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under T...
www.propublica.org
July 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
NEW: Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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🖼️ Infographic: Facing the looming rise in global #asthma cases
tinyurl.com/5bhca654
The number of individuals with asthma worldwide is expected to grow, particularly in deprived areas
Explore our infographic, and read the full paper here: tinyurl.com/2s45kbff
tinyurl.com/5bhca654
The number of individuals with asthma worldwide is expected to grow, particularly in deprived areas
Explore our infographic, and read the full paper here: tinyurl.com/2s45kbff
July 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🖼️ Infographic: Facing the looming rise in global #asthma cases
tinyurl.com/5bhca654
The number of individuals with asthma worldwide is expected to grow, particularly in deprived areas
Explore our infographic, and read the full paper here: tinyurl.com/2s45kbff
tinyurl.com/5bhca654
The number of individuals with asthma worldwide is expected to grow, particularly in deprived areas
Explore our infographic, and read the full paper here: tinyurl.com/2s45kbff
Reposted by Amaranta Mondragon
We’re asking you to join us as we demand governments across the UK to urgently implement the latest air quality guidelines set by the World Health Organisation, to protect the health of future generations: action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...
Sign our Petition to Protect Children’s Lungs: Implement World Health Organisation Air Quality Standards in the UK
Toxic air isn't just an environmental issue, it’s a health emergency. It contributes to lung cancer, worsens asthma and COPD, and harms children’s development, even before birth.
A new survey at Ast...
action.asthmaandlung.org.uk
June 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We’re asking you to join us as we demand governments across the UK to urgently implement the latest air quality guidelines set by the World Health Organisation, to protect the health of future generations: action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...
"In addition to jeopardizing data, terminating a grant in the middle of an active study may worsen participants’ conditions and put them at higher risk of death."
NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission.
ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with…
projects.propublica.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"In addition to jeopardizing data, terminating a grant in the middle of an active study may worsen participants’ conditions and put them at higher risk of death."
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The EPA has proposed to erase federal carbon dioxide limits on power plants, threatening global public health. 🧪
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EPA Proposes Removal of Carbon Dioxide Limits on Power Plants - Eos
On 11 June, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to repeal federal limits on power plant carbon emissions, including a Biden-era rule requiring power plants to control 90% of their...
eos.org
June 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The EPA has proposed to erase federal carbon dioxide limits on power plants, threatening global public health. 🧪
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...
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Increasingly, literature has linked social determinants of health to disparities in #asthma prevalence, severity & outcome.
How does this issue apply to childhood asthma, specifically?
📄 Read a Comment in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mrj8vtwm #WorldAsthmaDay
How does this issue apply to childhood asthma, specifically?
📄 Read a Comment in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mrj8vtwm #WorldAsthmaDay
Social and environmental determinants of health inequities in childhood asthma
Asthma represents a substantial health burden in childhood globally, with minoritised
populations being disproportionately impacted.1 Recent literature has increasingly
linked social determinants of h...
www.thelancet.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Increasingly, literature has linked social determinants of health to disparities in #asthma prevalence, severity & outcome.
How does this issue apply to childhood asthma, specifically?
📄 Read a Comment in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mrj8vtwm #WorldAsthmaDay
How does this issue apply to childhood asthma, specifically?
📄 Read a Comment in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mrj8vtwm #WorldAsthmaDay
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📜 New editorial in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Occupational respiratory harms: preventable, not inevitable
🔗 tinyurl.com/yv5kcas9
Occupational respiratory harms: preventable, not inevitable
🔗 tinyurl.com/yv5kcas9
May 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
📜 New editorial in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Occupational respiratory harms: preventable, not inevitable
🔗 tinyurl.com/yv5kcas9
Occupational respiratory harms: preventable, not inevitable
🔗 tinyurl.com/yv5kcas9
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Poor People of Color Breathe Poor Air
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May 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Poor People of Color Breathe Poor Air
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When we talk about climate change, most people think of heat and cold waves, and the discomfort caused by extreme temperatures. However, temperature is not the only indoor environmental factor affected by climate change.
April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When we talk about climate change, most people think of heat and cold waves, and the discomfort caused by extreme temperatures. However, temperature is not the only indoor environmental factor affected by climate change.
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During such extreme weather events, indoor pollutant concentrations can increase due to changes in indoor temperatures and the ways occupants respond to maintain thermal comfort.
April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
During such extreme weather events, indoor pollutant concentrations can increase due to changes in indoor temperatures and the ways occupants respond to maintain thermal comfort.
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Indoor air quality can deteriorate, particularly in buildings that rely heavily on outdoor conditions to regulate the indoor environment, such as those with only natural ventilation, poor insulation, or no heating and cooling systems.
April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Indoor air quality can deteriorate, particularly in buildings that rely heavily on outdoor conditions to regulate the indoor environment, such as those with only natural ventilation, poor insulation, or no heating and cooling systems.
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When renovating these buildings to improve climate change resilience, indoor air resilience should be considered as a key performance indicator in both the design phase and the post-renovation assessment of building performance.
April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When renovating these buildings to improve climate change resilience, indoor air resilience should be considered as a key performance indicator in both the design phase and the post-renovation assessment of building performance.
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To learn more about how climate change impacts indoor air quality, you can read the review paper: Impact of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality: A Review - www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19...
April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
To learn more about how climate change impacts indoor air quality, you can read the review paper: Impact of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality: A Review - www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19...
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In another move to boost the coal industry, the Trump administration has exempted dozens of coal-fired power plants from federal rules limiting air emissions of mercury and other toxics. 🧪
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Executive Order Seeks to Revive “America’s Beautiful, Clean Coal Industry” - Eos
President Trump signed an executive order to drastically reduce restrictions on domestic coal production on 8 April. It lays out plans to enable coal mining on federal lands, identify and revise exist...
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April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In another move to boost the coal industry, the Trump administration has exempted dozens of coal-fired power plants from federal rules limiting air emissions of mercury and other toxics. 🧪
eos.org/research-and...
eos.org/research-and...
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NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, data products, and catalogs related to marine, coastal, and estuary science and earthquakes. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...
NOAA Datasets Will Soon Disappear - Eos
NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science.
eos.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, data products, and catalogs related to marine, coastal, and estuary science and earthquakes. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...
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We agree with this morning’s @sciam.bsky.social's op-ed: science organizations must speak up.
That’s why AGU joined a lawsuit challenging the unlawful firings of federal scientists. Silencing science threatens our economy, environment, public health & national security.
That’s why AGU joined a lawsuit challenging the unlawful firings of federal scientists. Silencing science threatens our economy, environment, public health & national security.
April 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We agree with this morning’s @sciam.bsky.social's op-ed: science organizations must speak up.
That’s why AGU joined a lawsuit challenging the unlawful firings of federal scientists. Silencing science threatens our economy, environment, public health & national security.
That’s why AGU joined a lawsuit challenging the unlawful firings of federal scientists. Silencing science threatens our economy, environment, public health & national security.
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The National Climate Assessment is essential for understanding climate risks across nearly every sector—from agriculture to transportation to public health. Undermining the NCA undermines our national resilience.
Read why this work must continue: fromtheprow.agu.org/the-u-s-nati... #AGUblogs
Read why this work must continue: fromtheprow.agu.org/the-u-s-nati... #AGUblogs
The U.S. National Climate Assessment Must Stay on Track — Our Future Depends on It
The U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a vital, congressionally mandated scientific report that offers a clear-eyed, evidence-based analysis of how climate change is impacting our environment, ...
fromtheprow.agu.org
April 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The National Climate Assessment is essential for understanding climate risks across nearly every sector—from agriculture to transportation to public health. Undermining the NCA undermines our national resilience.
Read why this work must continue: fromtheprow.agu.org/the-u-s-nati... #AGUblogs
Read why this work must continue: fromtheprow.agu.org/the-u-s-nati... #AGUblogs
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A World Weather Attribution report found that climate change made the conditions leading to the Palisades and Eaton fires 35% more likely.
Read more in our April issue, out now: buff.ly/9tQ3sWl
Read more in our April issue, out now: buff.ly/9tQ3sWl
How Much Did Climate Change Affect the Los Angeles Wildfires? - Eos
High heat, dry fuel, and strong winds drove the Palisades and Eaton blazes.
eos.org
April 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A World Weather Attribution report found that climate change made the conditions leading to the Palisades and Eaton fires 35% more likely.
Read more in our April issue, out now: buff.ly/9tQ3sWl
Read more in our April issue, out now: buff.ly/9tQ3sWl