Farm Bill for Everyone
In the United States, a nation with 3,000 counties, hunger is a fact of life for millions of people. According to a new study, 97 percent of U.S. counties have malnourished families who do...
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Burning Forests with the EPA
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its chief, Scott Pruitt, are doing the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to be doing. Their latest action is one more in a...
Where Will the Bombs Hit Next?
Rain bombs are coming, and they’ll hit land with not only more frequency but more force. Officially labeled wet microbursts, the highly intense and destructive blasts of water will strike communities which are completely...
Inequality Dooms Us All
How much more money do billionaires need to be happy? The patterns of behavior in the global economy are disturbing. Those who manipulate the economy are helping themselves to more wealth all the time...
Change Our Diet, Save Our Planet
The foods we eat and the way we produce them not only are killing ourselves. They are destroying other forms of life on Earth. For years, scientists have warned that our way of life...
Scientists’ Second Warning to Humanity
The future holds large-scale death and destruction, and misery for the survivors, if human beings fail to solve a long list of environmental problems growing steadily worse on Earth today. It is the second...
Funding the War on Opioids
In the United States, as the opioid epidemic rages on, killing more than 140 people every day, many critics, who have long complained of an inadequate response to the epidemic by the federal government,...
Food Crisis Looms As Bees Die
Bees, the great pollinators enabling many crops to grow, play a vital role in making food for human beings. They pollinate 71 of the 100 crops which account for 90 percent of the food...
Small Farmers Saving the World
Almost 1 billion people across the globe are undernourished, according to data from the United Nations. As an additional 2 to 3 billion people join the world’s population by 2050, public health officials warn...
Punishing the Opioid Industry
In Philadelphia, the United States’ 6th largest city, officials are taking a new step in a fight to address an opioid epidemic which has become a national public health crisis. They now are attacking...