The worry is that life online is giving us what researcher, David Levy, calls “popcorn brain” — a brain so accustomed to the constant stimulation of electronic multitasking that we’re unfit…
The Earth’s surface was once held tightly in the grasp of forests. An estimated 14 per cent of the 150 million square kilometres that make up our terrestrial ecosystems was rainforest, for example….
A new IOM report, Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies, will be publicly released on June 23, 2011. All members of the public are invited to participate in a briefing that will be…
Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global…
“It’s been reported that some [fracking fluids] are things like kerosene, benzene, urea, toluene — how many of those can I feed my toddler? Because it’s perfectly safe, right?”
Amplify’d from nameigoob.blogspot.comStephen Colbert grilled former Pennsylvania governor…
From across the state of New York they came: scientists, landowners, farmers, consumer advocates, laborers, elected officials, environmentalists, doctors and representatives of business,…
The California Department of Public Health is working to improve public health by delivering science-based information on the trends and distributions of diseases, environmental threats, and…
Manmade chemicals are everywhere, from food to furniture, cosmetics to computers, toys to toothpaste. They have brought great benefits, swelling our harvests, beating previously unvanquishable…
The pesticide endosulfan will be banned in 2012 except for certain exempted uses, under an agreement struck April 29 by more than 170 countries. Endosulfan can cause neurological and…
