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Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Enviroments’ Board Member to Speak at Rally

ANHE Board Member, Brenda Afzal, will speak at the Race for the Cause: RALLY FOR SAFE CHEMICALS! on Thursday July 29th at 1:00 PM by the Capitol Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.  The rally is sponsored by NRDC and the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Campaign.  Read more…

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Conference a Success!

Over 150 nurses from around the country met in Baltimore last week for the first Our Environment, Our Health Conference sponsored by ANHE and the University of Maryland School of Nursing.  See Dr. Barbara Sattler talk about why nurses should be advocates for environmentally healthy people and the planet.

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From fires to fish, heat wave batters Russia.

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All week long, temperatures have been soaring to records, and on Thursday, they reached a new high for Moscow, 100 degrees. July has been the hottest month since the city began taking such measurement...

Gulf of Mexico has long been a sink of pollution.

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The gulf is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the hemisphere, home to abundant wildlife and natural resources. But like no other American body of water, the gulf bears the environmental consequenc...

Chemicals in rivers linked to sexual changes in fish, researchers say.

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Alberta researchers say gender-bending fish swimming in the province’s southern rivers raise serious questions about whether the water is safe for people to drink....

House rejects bill to aid sick 9/11 responders.

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A bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust fell short in the House on Thursday, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for t...

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From fires to fish, heat wave batters Russia.

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All week long, temperatures have been soaring to records, and on Thursday, they reached a new high for Moscow, 100 degrees. July has been the hottest ...

Chemicals in rivers linked to sexual changes in fish, researchers say.

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Alberta researchers say gender-bending fish swimming in the province’s southern rivers raise serious questions about whether the water is safe for p...

New database shows oilsands pollution slow, steady drip: scientist.

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A new database that compiles thousands of government and industry records on Alberta's oilsands lays out in painstaking detail how the industry is a c...

Mexico's environment: A breath of fresh air.

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Hemmed in by mountains and volcanoes, Mexico City is the perfect smog-trap. Yet the smog is lifting. The average concentration of ozone, one of the mo...

Alliance first national conference: June 7-8, 2010

  • Join us at the first national conference for nurses addressing the relationship between human health and the environment. Learn about the growing movement that is being created by nurses as they "green" their health care institutions, engage in scientific inquiry, integrate environmental health practices into nursing assessments and interventions, and create and support policies that protect human health and the environment. Come hear about and share in the expanding roles that nurses are taking in the exciting and critical field of environmental health. To read more, go to Alliance first national conference