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CO2 Emissions Reach All-Time High Despite Recent COVID Emissions Drop

June 5, 2020 by Sage Edwards
Last updated on: June 9, 2020

At the start of the pandemic, scientists were widely talking about a silver lining in a shut down of the economy: the massive drop in emissions. Emission decreases peaked in early April, showing a 17% decline in global greenhouse gas… [read]

U.S. Court Cancels EPA Approval of Nayer’s Dicamba-Based Herbicide

June 5, 2020 by Kristina Martin
Last updated on: June 9, 2020

The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broke the law when they approved Bayer’s XtendiMax dicamba-based herbicide system and revoked the approval of that product. They also canceled registrations for the… [read]

New Study Links Gut Health to Food Allergies

June 4, 2020 by Sage Edwards
Last updated on: June 5, 2020

New studies testing oral immunotherapy have shown that gut health may play a large role in allergies, and gut microbes may be the solution to food allergies. Oral immunotherapy involves taking small doses of whatever food causes the allergic reaction,… [read]

Sweden’s Approach To Coronavirus – Did It Work? What Should We Have Done?

June 3, 2020 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: June 3, 2020

As usual, it’s complicated. Sweden did not impose strict limits on citizens’ rights. People went to work and ate at restaurants and faced very few restrictions. Children in lower grades attended school but highschools and universities utilized distance learning. Businesses… [read]

Floodwaters in Midland, Michigan Are Mixing with Toxic Chemical Storage Ponds

June 2, 2020 by Sage Edwards
Last updated on: June 5, 2020

Midland, Michigan was recently heavily flooded as the result of a dam failure. Reports from Dow Chemical Facility have said that floodwaters were “commingling with on-site containment ponds” at Dow facilities. Floodwaters had the potential to release chemicals onto farmland… [read]

Study Shows Half of Americans Would Get a Coronavirus Vaccine

June 2, 2020 by Sage Edwards
Last updated on: June 3, 2020

A recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for public affairs shows that only 50% of Americans say they would get a Coronavirus vaccine. The poll showed that 31% of Americans were unsure if they’d get vaccinated while 1 in… [read]

Vaccination Before 1 Year of Age May Increase Odds of Developmental Delays, Asthma, Ear Infection – New Study

June 1, 2020 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: June 4, 2020

A new peer-reviewed study has been published in the journal SAGE Open Medicine that looks at health outcomes of vaccinated children versus children who are unvaccinated. The study looks at three pediatric practices located in the United States. The study concludes that unvaccinated children… [read]