San Diego Non-Profit Sees Importance of Healthy and Ecologically Sustainable Food Systems

Jackie ONeal 5 months ago Region: United States

     The American Medical Association (AMA) has approved a new policy resolution in support of practices and policies within health care systems that promote and model a healthy and ecologically sustainable... more

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Study Finds 25 Percent of World’s Mammals at Risk of Extinction

Michael Krebs a year ago Region: United States

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) unveiled a dark new study today, detailing the potential permanent demise of 1,141 of the 5,487 mammals on earth.  If the findings in the IUCN Red List of Th... more

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Antimicrobial Personal Care Products and the Ecology – a Penalty in Cleanliness

Michael Krebs a year ago Region: United States

We have a rule in our house: showing up at the table with unwashed hands will set you back a dollar.  Now while this infraction is likely not properly indexed to inflation, the penalty acts as a reminder that germs tr... more

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Global Warming, Eutrophication Creating Death Zones In Oceans

Mridul Chadha a year ago Region: United States

A recent article on the Times Online website looks at the rapidly increasing ‘Dead Zones’ in our seas and oceans. Dead zones are the regions where the marine life cease to survive mainly due to lack of oxygen. ... more

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World freshwater running out as population grows

Michael Krebs 2 years ago Region: United States

When I was in high school, I worked for a local environmental advocacy group – canvassing throughout a warren of suburban neighborhoods on the issue of polluted underground aquifers that ran below those neighborhoods... more

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Obama Orders Pizza Delivery From St. Louis

Betsy Ross 7 months ago Region: United States

Apparently, when politically things couldn't seem to get more ludicrous than they already are here in the United States, a story comes out that simply is just too incredible to believe. In a recent news report carrie... more

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Collective Pharmaceutical Consumption Yielding Cellular Dangers in the Water Supply

Michael Krebs a year ago Region: United States

There is a photograph that stays with me.  A man is sprawled on a makeshift FEMA cot at the New Orleans airport.  It is days after Hurricane Katrina moved through, and the man is clearly lost in the grey folds of... more

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Are Biofuels a Crime Against Humanity as UN Asserts?

Michael Krebs a year ago Region: United States

The recent surge in global food prices that has triggered unrest in developing nations – most visible in the Haitian and Egyptian riots – has prompted the United Nations to label biofuels a crime against humani... more

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Indian Gynecologist Has License Suspended After BBC Report

Can Tran a year ago Region: United States

During a BBC report into female feticide, Dr. Mangala Telang was filmed offering an illegal ultrasound scan. But she has denied any allegations of wrongdoing. While the allegations against Dr. Telang are investigated, two ... more

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