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A farmer holds rice in his hand in Khon Kaen province of Thailand, March 12, 2019.
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ReutersClimate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like wildfires, heat waves, and hurricanes. Research links our warming planet to increasing food insecurityas well.
- A new report from the United Nations warns that climate change decreases the nutritional value of important food crops like wheat and rice.
- That’s because high levels of carbon dioxide disrupt plants’ internal chemistry, altering how much protein and other vitamins they produce internally.
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Climate change is linked to myriad health issues: longer, more intense allergy seasons, the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and malaria, and the proliferation of flesh-eating bacteria in warmer water.
A new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) adds yet another serious health risk to the list: Increased carbon-dioxide levels lower the nutritional value of food staples like rice and wheat.
Research has shown that growing these crops in environments with higher […]
Illustration by: João Fazenda
According to the psychologist Peter Gray, children today are more depressed than they were during the Great Depression and more anxious than they were at the height of the Cold War. A 2019 study published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology found that between 2009 and 2017, rates of depression rose by more than 60 percent among those ages 14 to 17, and 47 percent among those ages 12 to 13. This isn’t just a matter of increased diagnoses. The number of children and teenagers who were seen in emergency rooms with suicidal thoughts or having attempted suicide doubled between 2007 and 2015.
To put it simply, our kids are not O.K.
For a long time, as a mother and as a writer, I searched for a single culprit. Was it the screens? The food? The lack of fresh air and free time, the rise of the overscheduled, overprotected child, the overarching culture […]
Kid Rock and Trump on the golf course
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. – Donald Trump’s presidential golf costs have topped $110 million in his 2 1/2 years in office – more than $4 million more than a conservative group’s estimate for predecessor Barack Obama’s total travel costs over two full terms.
Trump arrived at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Friday evening and is scheduled to remain there through Sunday afternoon. It is his 18th golf trip there since taking office. Sunday will mark his 67th day at that course and his 199th day at a golf course he owns.
The White House on Saturday did not respond to queries about Trump’s golf activities.
Each of the president’s trips to Bedminster costs taxpayers at least $1.1 million in travel and security expenses, according to a HuffPost analysis. Each trip to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm […]
Antonio Basco cries beside a cross at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex, in El Paso, Texas. Basco, whose 63-year-old wife was among the Texas mass shooting victims says he has no other family and welcomes anyone wanting to attend her services in El Paso. Margie Reckard was among 22 people fatally shot on Aug. 3 at a the Walmart. Reckard and Basco were married 22 years.
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Congressional Republicans recently circulated talking points on gun violence that falsely described the El Paso massacre and other mass shootings as “violence from the left.”
A document obtained by the Tampa Bay Times and sent by House Republicans provides a framework for how to respond to anticipated questions like, “Why won’t you pass legislation to close the ‘gun show loophole’ in federal law?” and “Why shouldn’t we ban high-capacity magazines?” The answers are boilerplate Republican arguments against tougher gun restrictions.
Animal rights groups are welcoming the Trump administration’s decision to revoke approval of traps—used to target animals such as coyotes—that critics have dubbed “cyanide bombs.”
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Conservation and animal rights advocates celebrated a rare Trump era victory Thursday after the Environmental Protection Agency reversed its approval of so-called “cyanide bombs” to kill wildlife on public lands, a decision made last week that provoked impassioned public outcry.
“Obviously somebody at EPA is paying attention to the public’s concerns about cyanide bombs.”
—Brooks Fahy, Predator Defense
“I am announcing a withdrawal of EPA’s interim registration review decision on sodium cyanide, the compound used in M-44 devices to control wild predators,” agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement Thursday, referring to the traps by their official name. “This issue warrants further analysis and additional discussions by EPA with the registrants of this predacide.”
Brooks Fahy, executive director of Predator Defense, a wildlife group that opposes the spring-loaded poison traps, said in a statement to The Guardian that the EPA’s reversal seemed to be the result of widespread outrage over […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
