Pesticides cause ‘catastrophic’ harm to people and planet, UN report says
“The overuse of pesticides has crippled agricultural ecosystems by helping to spur pest infestations.”
After the March for Science, keep moving
This weekend’s march is a start. A climate scientist urges us to follow through in our personal lives as well as in our community.
California’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan clears state senate
“This is a banner day for California, and a moral model for the nation.”
America needs service workers – and they need health care
Universal health care costs money. Going without costs more.
Another American dies after not being able to afford prescription insulin
“How many more young Type 1 diabetes patients have to die before something finally changes?”
Will the coronavirus kill globalization?
The Spanish flu helped herald the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. A century later, could the coronavirus do the same?
Warning US could face ‘darkest winter in modern history,’ ousted whistleblower demands science-based pandemic...
“If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities.”
France to Ban Glyphosate Weedkillers
Monsanto maintains that their product is safe, and that the recent arguments over glyphosate or purely “political.”
Monsanto found liable for French farmer’s illness
A French appeals court ruled Thursday that Monsanto was liable for causing illness in a farmer who inadvertently inhaled one of its...
Gilead Sciences asks FDA to rescind ‘orphan’ status for possible coronavirus treatment drug in...
"We are committed to making the medicine both accessible and affordable to governments and patients around the world."