Why the Taliban’s promise to stop the opium trade rings hollow
Uncertainty abounds over what the Taliban’s opium policy will actually look like. In the meantime, the farmers are planting the seeds for next year’s crop right now.
Will the Trump USDA deliver on the dietary guidelines for Americans? Our new report...
The bottom line is this: if it is important to ensure the guidelines are evidence-based, it is essential to recognize that even evidence-based guidelines are only as effective as their implementation.
Free as you can afford to be
GOP leaders want to protect your "freedom" to be poor, powerless, sick, and uninsured.
97% of Endangered Species Threatened by 3 Common Pesticides
The Center for Biological Diversity, as well as a number of farmworkers, child-safety and environmental advocacy groups, sent a letter to the EPA last month urging it to ban several organophosphate pesticides that are currently under review.
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has eerie similarities to today’s pandemic
In our own pandemic – with some of the most well-off now clamoring for the economy to re-open, despite the ongoing spread of the disease – these issues are strikingly relevant.
1,3-dichloropropene: The dangerous, sweet-smelling pesticide you’ve never heard of
Regulatory loopholes allow more than 30 million pounds of a cancer-causing pesticide to be sprayed on U.S. crops.
Ditching fossil fuels will have immediate health benefits for millions – world leaders must...
The same fossil fuels producing the greenhouse gases warming the Earth’s atmosphere also form large quantities of air pollutants.
America needs service workers – and they need health care
Universal health care costs money. Going without costs more.
To defeat coronavirus, media need to look at real-world examples, not play ‘simulitis’
The price of not stopping the coronavirus, it turns out, is too great for any nation to pay; that’s the lesson the real world is teaching us, and one we have to heed.
New study links osteoporosis to air pollution
“Air pollution continues to rise at an alarming rate, and affects economies and people’s quality of life; it is a public health emergency.”