Elections have consequences. Some of those consequences affect our health and that of the biosphere, the thin, living shell covering Earth. Those impacts increased after our last presidential election. The next election will likely cause even more impacts. Early this year, President Donald Trump claimed “nobody could have predicted something like (COVID-19).” Yet
Amid this reality, Tyson Foods recently announced a plan to open medical clinics at several of its U.S. plants. Coupled with the addition of nurses and administrative positions in the company’s health services team, executives claim these plans will help “promote a culture of health” among workers. With the new initiative, Tyson joins
A newly published study is warning that there will be 53 trillion metric tons of plastic pollution in the world’s rivers, lakes, and oceans by 2030. The research, published in Science, found that humanity is on track to put 53 million megatons (the equivalent 53 trillion tons) into the world’s waterways, even if
Over years, mammal, fish, bird, reptile, and amphibian species declined an average of 68 per cent. Latin American and Caribbean populations have seen the sharpest drop, with an average decline of 94 per cent, as well as freshwater species worldwide, which has shrunk by 84 per cent. Wildlife declines are happening here too,
Envision attending a concert of tens of thousands of people, yet you are guaranteed excellent cell phone service for video streaming, calling and using internet apps like social media. That world will be here soon, all thanks to 5G. That is the fifth generation of wireless technology that is used to support cellular
Last month was the second-worst August on record for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to official figures released Friday, sparking new criticism of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro s environmental policies. A total of , square kilometers square miles in the Brazilian Amazon — times the size of Manhattan — were lost last
You just breath the air, and that s how it s passed … This is deadly stuff, said President Donald Trump. The date of Bob Woodward s bombshell recording, February , is important. President Trump knew then the threat of COVID- – and had no qualms about downplaying it. We don t want
Amy Scott takes in the view from the Embarcadero as wildfire smoke mixes with the marine layer, blanketing San Francisco in darkness and an orange glow on Sept. , in San Francisco. Over million acres have burned this year. Images In a sunny Australian city known for being one of the world’s largest
This study was conducted to evaluate the antibiotic resistance of enterococci isolated from poultry in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou. A total of 137 enterococci isolates from poultry were tested for antibiotic susceptibility by the diffusion method. Ten antibiotics from different families were tested. High percentages of resistance to Tetracycline and Erythromycin were
COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), an enveloped positive stranded RNA virus and the third member of the family Coronaviridae which has emerged as a zoonotic infection. The predecessor of this new pathogen caused the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the Middle