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Vitamin C and the war on cancer
Posted: November 9, 2015Maybe Linus Pauling was on to something after all. Decades ago the Nobel Prize–winning chemist was relegated to the fringes of medicine after championing the idea that vitamin C could…
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Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline
Posted: November 9, 2015In a crucial victory for the climate, wildlife and the millions who spoke against it, President Obama rejected the Keystone XL project today, saying that building the tar sands oil…
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Invasive marine species benefit from rising CO2 levels
Posted: November 9, 2015Ocean acidification may well be helping invasive species of algae, jellyfish, crabs and shellfish to move to new areas of the planet with damaging consequences, according to the findings of…
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Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective
Posted: November 9, 2015Human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use, influenced specific extreme weather and climate events in 2014, including tropical cyclones in the central Pacific, heavy rainfall in Europe,…
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Acid rain's effects on forest soils found to be reversing
Posted: November 8, 2015Soil acidification from acid rain that is harmful to plant and aquatic life has now begun to reverse in forests of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, according to…
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The massive Indonesian fires
Posted: November 7, 2015The fires that blazed in Indonesia’s rainforests in 1982 and 1983 came as a shock. The logging industry had embarked on a decades-long pillaging of the country’s woodlands, opening up…
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Turns out, licking a wound DOES make it heal faster!
Posted: November 6, 2015By licking a wound it heals faster — this is not simply popular belief, but scientifically proven. Our saliva consists of water and mucus, among other things, and the mucus…
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The new imperative in buildings, cleaner air!
Posted: November 6, 2015A study just published by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has linked a building’s indoor air quality directly to its occupants’ cognitive function. Cognitive function is defined as…
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Rat poisons endanger California wildlife
Posted: November 5, 2015Researchers at the University of California released a study today indicating that rat poisons increasingly pose a significant risk for California’s imperiled Pacific fishers, small, forest-dwelling mammals that are protected under the California…
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Do you get the Winter blah's? Light therapy might not be the best treatment.
Posted: November 5, 2015A new study to be published online November 5 in the American Journal of Psychiatry casts a shadow on light therapy's status as the gold standard for treating SAD, or seasonal affective…
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