More than 40 million people in the U.S. were under heat alerts Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

Philip Landrigan, M.D., '63 director of the Program on Global Public Health and the Common Good and the Boston College Global Observatory on Planetary Health, is the lead author of a groundbreaking ...

What do we commonly find in tap water? In the U.S., about 90 percent of people get their tap water from a public water system (PWS). Water from a lake, reservoir, river or aquifer is piped into a ...