What the heck is shade-grown cacao? This pricey treat is actually good for...
From the Washington Post, December 8, 2015 – In Ecuador’s Amazon region, above the banks of the swirling Aguarico River, Luis Chamba grows cacao – the basis of chocolate and cocoa butter – on his...
View ArticleNew NASA Satellite Maps Show Human Fingerprint on Global Air Quality
From NASA, December 14, 2015 – Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195...
View ArticleStudy Shows Climate Change Rapidly Warming World’s Lakes
From NASA, December 16, 2015 – Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, according to a new NASA and National Science Foundation-funded...
View ArticleStudy: Up to 90 percent of cancers not ‘bad luck,’ but due to lifestyle...
From the Washington Post, December 17, 2015 – Scientists have long agreed that a person’s risk of getting cancer comes down to a mix of genes, lifestyle, environment thrown in with some measure of...
View ArticleRenewables Boom Expected Thanks to Tax Credit
From Scientific American, December 21, 2015 – The U.S. solar and wind power industries will mark the holidays with heightened spirits after receiving multiyear extensions of their coveted renewable...
View ArticleEPA Says Insecticide May Pose Risk to Bees
From the Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2016 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that bee colonies may face health risks from a class of controversial insecticides called neonicotinoids...
View ArticleFDA Revokes Use of Three Perfluorinated Chemicals
From Bloomberg BNA, January 6, 2016 – The Food and Drug Administration has revoked its previously approved use of three perfluorinated chemicals, grease-proofing agents that coat paper wrappers and...
View ArticleCampbell Labels Will Disclose G.M.O. Ingredients
From the New York Time, January 7, 2016 – Breaking from its industry rivals, Campbell Soup will become the first major food company to begin disclosing the presence of genetically engineered...
View ArticleIn Defense of Food
From PBS, Michael Pollan explores a cure for today’s industrially driven Western diet in the full length video, In Defense of Food. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” With that seven-word maxim,...
View ArticleHow Far Can We Get Without Flying?
From Yes! magazine, February 11, 2016 – I’m a climate scientist who doesn’t fly. I try to avoid burning fossil fuels, because it’s clear that doing so causes real harm to humans and to nonhumans, today...
View Article17 Governors Agree to Pursue Clean Energy Goals
From the Scientific American, February 17, 2016 – The announcement by 17 governors yesterday to jointly pursue clean energy goals was perhaps most noteworthy in what it did not include—any mention of...
View ArticleWhere the Sun Doesn’t Set on Solar
From US News and World Report, February 23, 2016 – Green energy advocates and utility companies for years have struggled to clear one of the last great hurdles facing solar and wind power: how to...
View ArticleMore Pollinator Species In Jeopardy, Threatening World Food Supply
From NPR, February 26, 2016 – A major global assessment of pollinators is raising concerns about the future of the planet’s food supply. A U.N.-sponsored report drawing on about 3,000 scientific papers...
View ArticleDead Bees Tell a Tale of Dozens of Pesticides
From TakePart, March 13, 2016 – As bee colonies continue to collapse worldwide, a team of European researchers has found that poisoned bees carry a lethal cocktail of dozens of different pesticides....
View ArticleNonorganic Foods Have Pesticide Residue-but Is It Bad for You?
From TakePart, March 14, 2016 – On a recent snowy February morning, Melissa Green strolled through the grocery aisles with her family at a Whole Foods in Brooklyn, New York. Her husband, Mike O’Hagan,...
View ArticleFDA: Limit Arsenic Levels in Baby Rice Cereal
From NBC News, April 1, 2016 – Concerns about the potential health risks from arsenic in infant rice cereal has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to propose limits for one of America’s favorite...
View ArticleSome Sunscreen Ingredients May Disrupt Sperm Cell Function
From the Endocrine Society, April 1, 2016 – Boston, MA – Many ultraviolet (UV)-filtering chemicals commonly used in sunscreens interfere with the function of human sperm cells, and some mimic the...
View ArticleBabies Who Eat Rice Cereal Have Higher Arsenic Levels, Study Finds
From NPR, April 25, 2016 – When it comes to introducing babies to solid foods, rice cereal is often first. And rice is a staple in many baby and toddler foods. But, as we’ve reported, multiple studies...
View ArticleTwo of the world’s top three insecticides harm bumblebees
From The Guardian, April 28, 2016 – Two of the world’s most widely used insecticides cause significant harm to bumblebee colonies, a new study has found, but a third had no effect. The work shows the...
View ArticleIs your food ‘natural’? FDA to weigh in
From the New York Times, May 17, 2016 – Can you define the word “natural”? The Food and Drug Administration is certainly trying. Since 2014, the agency has asked the public to weigh in on how the term...
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