Quito, Ecuador, is not considered a global leader by most measures. But there is one way in which Quito is at the forefront of metropolises worldwide: in planning for climate change. For more than a decade, officials in Ecuador’s mountainous capital have been studying the effects of global warming on …
Oceanographers Richard Camilli and Christopher Reddy, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, have accused oil giant BP of stifling academic freedom and attempting to skew scientific research from the Gulf of Mexico after the massive BP oil spill in 2010. This week, the two expressed concern after BP successfully subpoenaed …
President Obama promised change, but there’s little of it in his war policies, which are harsher than those of George W. Bush. US drone bombings often target not just “terrorists” but all “military-age males in a strike zone as combatants.” “Unless there is explicit posthumous intelligence proving otherwise”, that is. …
The FDA has two systems for alerting physicians to product recalls, yet 20 percent of recalls for Class I products – which are the likeliest to cause patient harm – were not communicated through either system between 2004 and 2011, according to an analysis published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The …
Back in 2006, a team of scientists from Canada, the United States, Sweden, and Panama published a landmark report [1]in the prestigious journal Science on the state of the oceans. The researchers highlighted what they called an “ongoing erosion of diversity” in sea-life that, if left unchecked, would lead to the “collapse of …
High and Dry is the third in a series of reports highlighting genetic engineering’s limitations and demonstrating the importance of increasing public investment in more effective—but often neglected—agricultural technologies. The first two reports in the series are Failure to Yield and No Sure Fix. Droughts can be devastating to farmers and to the people …
Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the ones that led certain farming …
The science and methods to use our body to heal our mind Dr. Henry Grayson is one of our nation’s leading mind/body/spirit psychologists and a pioneer in spiritually based energy psychology. He is the Founder and Chairman emeritus for the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. He …
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Attention foodies: Let’s chow down! Forget organic, locavore, omega3, umami, artisanal and all the other signposts of the healthy, ethical and refined “good food” movement, there are important advances in CuisineWorld that are going 180 degrees in the opposite direction — advances that literally are reshaping what we eat (while …
On Today’s Connect the Dots, PRN host, green health journalist, and Huffington reporter Alison Rose Levy (www.healthjournalistblog.com and @alisonroselevy) will speak with psychologist Dr. Dan Booth Cohen who faciitates a method called Systemic Family Constellations. The author of the recent book, I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Family Constellations in …
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