There’s something the farm lobby doesn’t want you to know: how much their use of antibiotics in livestock poses a risk to you and your children. Drug resistant infections are on the rise, according to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, “with numbers suggesting that up to 50,000 lives are lost each year to antibiotic-resistant infections […]
There’s something the farm lobby doesn’t want you to know: how much their use of antibiotics in livestock poses a risk to you and your children. Drug resistant infections are on the rise, according to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, “with numbers suggesting that up to 50,000 lives are lost each year to antibiotic-resistant infections […]
Four Florida residents have been infected with Zika in the first known case of local transmission of the virus in the continental U.S., according to health officials. female Aedes aegypti mosquitoJames Gathany/CDC, 2006 A new study shows that climate change is increasing the length of mosquito season in the U.S. thus increasing the risk of […]
iLoveMountains.org More than 1,000 people are gathering in Frankfort, Ky. on Feb. 14 to celebrate I Love Mountains Day and call for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining—a destructive practice that has shortened lifespans and caused illnesses in Central Appalachia for decades. The iLoveMountains.org team has just launched an innovative new web tool to […]