By Heather Callaghan, Editor Dow Chemical’s Toxic Insecticide – Banned for Home Use – Will Remain on Farms and In American Food. USDA nods. In a startling move, Scott Pruitt, new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, overrode the agency’s own scientific belief that one…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Whenever I hear the sarcastic term “first world problems” I cringe inside. The Western world is steeped in pain. All kinds of pain – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. While some things like bacterial infections and vitamin deficiencies were muzzled back…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor There have been reports of recent sightings of the thylacine even though the striped oddity has been gone for 81 years – and declared officially extinct in the 1980s. The sightings have been enough to prompt scientists to go on a…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor UK pageant finalist Rachel Crawley knows the pain of severe, cystic acne – and she’s documenting her healing journey on Instagram. Her simple diet change clearly worked, and now she is encouraging fans to help themselves by her own shining journey. Cystic…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor When you are constantly barraged with news of the “obesity epidemic” it’s easy to think Americans are guzzling themselves to death with sugar and aspartame-laden drinks. But it looks like an eye-opening critical mass has taken place. For the first time…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The British biotech company – Oxitec – didn’t successfully launch its genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key Haven, Florida late last year. So, much like the altered mosquitoes they want to spread in the U.S., the company is buzzing to find another…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor When you think of the heavy metal arsenic, does it make you think of an old Cary Grant movie or a 48 Hours Mystery? Or perhaps more recently – making an unfortunate appearance in gluten-free diets everywhere. That’s because arsenic is in…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor 3D-printing is doing everything now: from the best ever casts for broken limbs, gardens, living body parts(!) to printing any color of cosmetics on demand. Still, it’s perception-shattering that a company actually built an entire, livable house in just 24 hours….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The tear gas, plexiglass riot shields and brute force of the Athens police brigades were no use in staving off more than a thousand angry people traveling from Crete to protest against tax hikes last week. While the austerity street clashes of…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Avoid The Top 12 List Of Fruits And Veggies Ridden With Pesticides Not all of us can afford organic produce, that’s why the annual “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” list is so helpful when we navigate grocery stores and farmers markets….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Big news! A new study by UK scientists openly claims that vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is more potent than some pharma drugs at killing cancer stem cells – the pervasive cells that “seed” new cancer cells, feed fatal tumors and often evade treatment….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor In 2010, the government took kombucha off the store shelves over a claim that the popular probiotic beverage contained too much alcohol. Little do consumers realize – most large kombucha companies reformulated their products to make certain no alcohol could possibly…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor While the media is fond of scaring the public with the issue of bee die-offs, it is not as fond of questioning its corporate sponsors in their probable role in killing pollinator populations with neonicotinoid pesticides. This class of pesticides is highly…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Could it be true? Could you and your family be paying top dollar for imported foods that aren’t the least bit organic? According to a report by the Alliance for Natural Health U.S. we have a situation where we are importing…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor During the day, Tim Wong is all about water life as an aquatic biologist. But when he changes into his cape at the end of his shift, he transforms into an incredible cultivator of butterflies. Tending to butterflies was his lifelong…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Meet the Growroom. It’s an open source vertical, garden sphere designed for cities that is 2,8 x 2,5 meters. The urban farm pavilion takes up an incredibly small space for the unspecified amount of food it can produce. Several cities around the world…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor If you suspect a brown recluse bite, please have it checked immediately by a medical professional. The following mnemonic device was created for professionals encountering what might be a bite, but it can serve everyone to have this information. We have…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Why do the people of the Western world insist on waiting for elevators, hunting escalators, standing on those moving walkways at the airport and cutting people off in the parking lot to get the closest spot next to the gym? The late,…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Did you know that the European hamster is endangered in western Europe? Cannibalism doesn’t help. The wild European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) has been dying off at an unprecedented rate and a new paper demonstrates why. Researchers first had to realize the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor We recently reported on a comprehensive analysis that found PFASs (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), also known as PFCs in the wrappers and packages of hundreds of fast food and take-out samples. These chemicals are used on the packaging to keep in heat and…
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