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Here Come the Climate Change Lockdowns
Here Come the Climate Change Lockdowns Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Cities in India Will Lockdown Over Air Pollution The Supreme Court of India has ordered India’s capital, New Delhi, and […]
Mette Frederiksen, Boris Johnson: Reject Industry PR, Ban Glyphosate, Protect Public Health!
Mette Frederiksen, Boris Johnson: Reject Industry PR, Ban Glyphosate, Protect Public Health! On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA). She wanted to draw the agency’s attention to the findings that indicate the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact […]
Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’
Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’ More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature. In 2010 when I first started writing about hydraulic fracturing — the process of blasting a cocktail of water and chemicals into […]
Alabama Declares State of Emergency for the Flu Epidemic as the US Death Toll Rises
Alabama Declares State of Emergency for the Flu Epidemic as the US Death Toll Rises Citing a strain on “overwhelmed” health resources, Governor Kay Ivey declared an official State of Emergency in Alabama on Thursday due to the rapidly spreading flu epidemic. WHEREAS the State Health Officer has reported that an outbreak of the influenza […]
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy The sad truth is that Facebook and Google have behaved irresponsibly in the pursuit of massive profits. And this has come at a cost to our health ‘Substance cannot compete with sensation, which must be amplified constantly, lest consumers get distracted and move on.’ Photograph: Anadolu […]
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disaster a generation earlier. But Fukushima is arguably worse than Chernobyl. There were […]
Zika Virus Threatens “Disaster In Rio” Olympics As WHO Declares Global Emergency
Zika Virus Threatens “Disaster In Rio” Olympics As WHO Declares Global Emergency From the initial discovery in the heart of Ugandan forest darknessto mysterious genetically-modified Mosquitoes in Brazil, the newest threat to human health (most notably pregnant women) is the ominous-sounding Zika virus. The epidemic is spreading from its epicenter in Brazil – threatening disaster at the Olympics with […]
Four Ticking Global Time-Bombs Few Even Hear
Four Ticking Global Time-Bombs Few Even Hear A few charts help us grasp the magnitude of the four global time-bombs. The geopolitical and financial risks facing the global economy are well-known.Hot wars and currency meltdowns garner headlines around the world. But few even hear, much less discuss, four ticking global time-bombs: 1. The demographic time-bomb. […]
Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing
Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing Health authorities advise caution due to smoke from hundreds of wildfires across B.C. Smoke from wildfires in the Interior of British Columbia blankets the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. Health officials in the province have issued air quality warnings as a result of the fires. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) […]
Health professionals call: ban fracking for five years
Health professionals call: ban fracking for five years Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored. […]
Nearly Halted in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes Comeback by Sea
Nearly Halted in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes Comeback by Sea FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — It seemed as if the Ebola crisis was abating. New cases were plummeting. The president lifted travel restrictions, and schools were to reopen. A local politician announced on the radio that two 21-day incubation cycles had passed with no new infections in his […]
