5 biggest pesticide companies are making billions from ‘highly hazardous’ chemicals, investigation finds
The researchers found that the sale of these highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), disproportionately occurred in poorer nations, which often have fewer regulations than industrialized nations.
97,000 US kids test positive for COVID-19 on the brink of schools reopening
While children make up a small fraction of the number of positive coronavirus cases in the U.S., their portion is growing.
FDA unveils online database of chemical substances in food as part of MAHA initiative
The Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool provides contaminant levels in an initiative to modernize food chemical safety.
Turn widespread discontent into mass movement
We can turn widespread discontent into a mass movement with the power to transform the nation.
Intelligence thieves: How toxic pollutants are robbing communities of color
In her new book, author and ethicist Harriet Washington unearths one of the most overlooked aspects of environmental racism.
A health breakthrough that depends on people, not drugs
Meet the system stewards, people from every walk of life who improve Americans’ well-being by tackling the deeper causes of disease and despair.
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.
‘For shame’: Pfizer to charge $1,390 for lifesaving Covid drug that costs Just $13
"Pfizer treats Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many," said one consumer advocate.
The United States of Monsanto?
The DARK Act, which prevents consumers from knowing if the food they eat contains GMOs, has recently passed and is heading to the Senate.
EPA finds 23 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country above agency’s cancer-risk rate
Ethylene oxide is known to cause cancer when people within close proximity to sterilizer facilities breathe the gas in over the course of many years.