Wednesday, May 1, 2024

How Alaska tribes solved their dental health crisis

Dental health therapy takes half the time it takes to train a dentist. And it does what good medicine should: improve public health.

Climate change is making fish smaller

As ocean temperatures climb, many species of fish – tuna among them – likely will shrink.

Meeting Paris goals means dealing with climate impacts of eating meat

With our already slim chances of avoiding “dangerous” global warming, the science suggests we can’t afford to leave food and farming off the negotiating table.

Ignore the lame excuses: What 300,000 escaped salmon prove about factory fish farming

Sustainable-food advocates want to love aquaculture – yet it comes with so many risks.

Monsanto calls for investigation into WHO agency for ignoring Monsanto-funded studies

Glyphosate-based “Roundup” herbicide is probably the most controversial product of Monsanto, one of the world’s most controversial companies. With EU renewal of glyphosate’s license pending, Monsanto is going after the WHO agency that linked the herbicide to cancer in humans.

China invests $100B in water clean-up projects

For the people's sake, let’s hope China is able to meet their 2017 goals, and perhaps inspire other countries to follow suit.

An easier way to get to universal health care

Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.

2017 World Water Week: ‘Water and waste: reduce and reuse’

Water is key to our future prosperity, and together, we can achieve a water wise world.
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Millions consumed potentially unsafe water in the past 10 years

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a “D” grade for the quality of its drinking water systems based on an evaluation of their safety, condition, capacity and other criteria.

Collusion or coincidence? Records show EPA efforts to slow herbicide review came in coordination...

Released communications show the EPA and Monsanto working in concert to stall a toxicology review that a unit tied to the CDC was conducting on glyphosate.