Scenes from a Mine
Activists Converge on the Largest Mountaintop Removal Site in West Virginia
Currents
Flights of the Future
Companies—and the military—are moving forward with super fast, super efficient hydrogen-fueled planes that will drastically alter air travel in our lifetime…
Using Big Data to Improve Health
Big data medicine: Pharmacies act as gateways between patients & a new high-tech asthma inhaler equipped with a sensor to track when & where it is used…
True Food
An app for shoppers who want to avoid genetically modified and genetically engineered foods.Up to 70% of the thousands of packaged foods sold in supermarkets contain genetically modified (GM) or genetically engineered (GE) foods, according to the Center for Food Safety. While U.S. food labels must reflect ingredients, they are not required to state if […]
Two Colds Converged in a Yellow Wood
Thinkstock With Back-to-School Germs Spreading like, well, Germs, What’s the Best Natural Cold Symptom Relief, and how Effective Is the Flu Shot, Anyway?I’m in the feverish throes of a head-chest cold, so cold and flu remedies are on my mind, literally, at the moment. The first thing I turn to at the first inkling of […]
Eating Our Weight in GMOs
The Environmental Working Group finds that we’re consuming vast quantities of genetically modified foods each year.
Rice Paddies have a Methane Problem
Cows aren’t alone in contributing to emissions of methane, a global warming gas that’s 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Palm Oil’s Long Shadow
Palm oil is found in an endless array of foods and products, and its production has massive consequences for the climate and life on earth.
Kids’ Jewelry—Still Toxic
Two years after the AP revealed that kids’ jewelry contained dangerous levels of cadmium, they are still being sold.
Put Down that Bottle
Plastic Bottles Are Bad for Your HealthThe simple fact that Americans consume 1,500 single-serve water bottles per second made of PET plastic has sufficed to make these disposable bottles a target of environmentalists concerned about the impact of so much trash. Until very recently, however, it has been assumed that the PET bottles pose no […]