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For many runners, 2020 started out as a calendar year full of races. A fresh decade meant there were new goals to pursue and PRs to crush.
By March, though, the COVID-19 rates in the United States spiked and canceled most of those plans. Our normal ways of life an after-work gym session, training with friends, or jumping into a spur-of the-moment race were put on lockdown. But runners were undaunted: With a little creativity, we were able to continue to lace up and reap all the health benefits that running confers.
How do we know? We dug into data from popular workout tracking apps and devices. And the numbers don’t lie: We logged more miles, more people started running, and we continued to race albeit virtually. Here’s how our collective training stacked up during the pandemic.
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Arsenic Contamination in US Public Water Is More Likely in Latinx Communities
Tighter federal regulations on the toxic worked to decrease levels in public water, but certain regions and groups remain more at risk.
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A new survey shows arsenic levels in public water are disproportionately high in certain U.S. communities, despite national regulatory standards designed to protect people from the harmful chemical.
Researchers studied approximately 13 million records from 2006 to 2011 covering 139,000 public water systems in 46 states, Washington D.C., and Native American tribes. The records cover water service for 290 million people, representing 95 percent of all public water systems and 92 percent of the total population served by public water systems. Researchers found that, while average public water arsenic concentrations decreased by an average of 10 percent nationwide over the time studied, that decrease was not equal across all areas or
County board learns limits of managing large-scale livestock operations
Burnett County, the home of several St. Croix River tributaries, receives recommendations to regulate industrial agriculture.
Hog CAFO, North Carolina (Emily Sutton, Haw Riverkeeper|Flickr)
Howard Pahl lives in the rural township of Trade Lake, Wisc., which he’s called home since 1978. He’s one of only a few; the 36-square mile township is home to just 823 people.
Most of the township and its residents are downwind of a proposed industrial swine facility that has put them on defense. Pahl spoke to the Burnett County board of supervisors at their recent meeting to discuss Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) that have their sights set on the county.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below.
Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.