Wednesday, July 22, 2026

How the pandemic’s unequal toll on people of color underlines US health inequities –...

From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has wrought a far higher toll in communities of color than in the general...

Billionaires ‘had a terrific pandemic’ while inequality killed millions: Oxfam

Oxfam International's latest report on global inequality finds that while the 10 richest individuals in the world more than doubled their collective...

15-minute tumble dry can release hundreds of thousands of microfibers into the air

Every time you stick a load of clothes into a tumble dryer, you may be releasing hundreds of thousands of microfibers into...

Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide, which is bad for your health...

Agricultural subsidies help prop up a food system that is neither healthy nor sustainable.

What will we remember of 2022?

Let me start 2022 by heading back — way, way back — for a moment. It’s easy to forget...

Rising temperatures linked to kidney disease

While global warming impacts our world and our lives in many obvious ways, a new study links rising temperatures with renal diseases,...
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‘A vaccine for the world’: U.S. scientists develop low-cost shot to inoculate global south

"We make vaccines for diseases that the pharma companies won’t make."

The dairy industry is determined to pour itself down our throats

This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of theIndependent Media Institute. When author and...

GMO food labeling regulations go into effect Jan. 1, but face ongoing litigation by...

The Center for Food Safety's ongoing litigation against the final labeling regulations claim deception and discrimination.

Anti-vaxxers: The albatross wrapped around America’s neck

95% of living Americans will be fully vaccinated. America will then see the Covid-19 virus not disappear completely, but become relatively harmless, very much like the flu.