A food bank proves a healthy Mediterranean diet is cheaper than a junky...
A diet based on fresh fruit and vegetables, along with extra-virgin olive oil, is perceived by consumers as an expensive option, but the reverse is true.
View ArticleThis “ocean farmer” could make you hopeful about the future of the sea.
I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jail. I’m an epileptic. I’m asthmatic. I don’t even know how to swim. This is my...
View ArticleBeyond the headlines.
In this week’s trip beyond the headlines, Peter Dykstra tells host Steve Curwood about unexpected health effects linked to breathing Beijing’s dirty air and how exposure to a toxin in the sea ruined...
View ArticleNoise and body fat: Uncovering new connections.
Investigators report that exposure to traffic noise at home was associated with body composition outcomes such as larger waist circumference and higher body mass index.
View ArticleInflammatory bowel disease in Asia: A second chance at uncovering...
Thirty years ago, fewer than 1 in 1 million people in Hong Kong had inflammatory bowel disease. Today roughly 3 in 100,000 people in the country are diagnosed with IBD.
View ArticleEating for two: Does an organic diet make a difference?
A new study finds that women who ate organic food during pregnancy were 58% less likely to deliver boys with hypospadias, a common urogenital birth defect, than mothers who never ate any., A new study...
View ArticleSupreme Court declines to hear case challenging Chesapeake Bay ‘pollution diet.’
The Supreme Court said Monday it would not hear a challenge to the "pollution diet" set for the Chesapeake Bay, in effect upholding the blueprint for a substantial cleanup by 2025.
View Article7 reasons to drop your soda habit.
If Mayor Kenney's proposed tax on sugary soft drinks is approved by City Council (and survives challenges from the soda industry), reduced consumption might mean fewer health problems in the following...
View ArticleSCOTUS backs Chesapeake Bay pollution diet.
The federal pollution diet set for the Chesapeake Bay is intact after the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge from farm groups and homebuilders trying to dismantle that effort.
View ArticleSupreme Court refuses to hear Bay cleanup challenge.
Farm and building interests, plus 22 states had contested EPA's authority to impose pollution limits.
View ArticleDodging wind farms and bullets in the Arctic.
As Norway looks north for resources and energy, Sami reindeer herders fear for their lands and culture.
View ArticleClimate impact predicted to cause 500,000 extra deaths in 2050.
Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer and heart disease, experts said on...
View ArticleHow climate change may affect your diet.
Climate change’s effects on global food supply could lead to more than 500,000 deaths by 2050 as people around the world lose access to good nutrition, according to new research.
View ArticleA tax on sugary drinks? There’s no magic bullet for reducing obesity.
Canadian governments have proved remarkably ineffective at preventing obesity and promoting the conditions for healthier eating.
View ArticleFood scarcity caused by climate change could cause 500,000 deaths by 2050,...
The effects of climate change on food production around the world could lead to more than 500,000 deaths by the year 2050, according to a grim new study.
View ArticleHouse probe reveals audit detailing climate change researcher’s ‘double...
Congressional investigators have obtained an internal audit from George Mason University that suggests one of its professors - a major proponent of man-made climate change - mismanaged millions of...
View ArticleRoad salt putting human, aquatic lives on a collision course.
“Salt is an unfolding train wreck for streams across the mid-Atlantic and I think across the United States,” said Robert Hilderbrand, a stream scientist with the University of Maryland Center for...
View ArticleWe should tax junk food and stop advertising it to kids.
What do you do with a problem like unhealthy foods? After all, junk food is easily available, it’s cheap, and it’s advertised harder than other kinds of foods. It’s also (usually) delicious. How can...
View ArticleLobbying didn’t stop plan for a cleaner bay.
It's worth asking whether the American Farm Bureau Federation effectively represents the cause of American farmers.
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