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SWEHSC members gathered with other Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers in Kentucky.

This is what the auto industry wants people to see: sparkling factories turning reclaimed lead into batteries. But in Africa’s lead recycling capital, reality looks very different, but the factories have started to poison people.

The standard, which advises scientists and professionals how to record provenance for data about and from Indigenous Peoples’ nations, communities and territories, is the first of its kind and takes effect during Native American Heritage Month in the US.

A new standard developed with University of Arizona Indigenous data sovereignty expert Stephanie Russo Carroll at the helm outlines how scientists and technology professionals across an array of fields should record the provenance – or origin and history of use – for data about and relating to Indigenous Peoples.

The team of researchers from the U of A Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health followed 77 farmworkers in Sonora, Mexico for several months, regularly testing the workers’ blood and urine. The average age of the workers was 29 years old.

In the middle of a Tucson summer, the stretch of Oracle Road between Prince and River roads might just be the worst place to hang out all day. There is little shade to hide from the unforgiving sun. And the urban environment, with all its cars and asphalt, soaks up the sunlight and traps the heat for hours.

Dr. Paloma Beamer talks about the prevention of dust particles, and measures that you can take to prevent them from accumulating.

The University of Arizona Superfund Research Center received a $14.8 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health, to help understand and mitigate health threats from metalloid-contaminated dust from mine tailings and associated hazardous fungal spores, specifically within mining communities.

A new study found that firefighters exposed to the Palisades and other fires had changes in their immune system and inflammatory response protein pathways.