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What All Parents Need to Know About Pesticides in Produce

What All Parents Need to Know About Pesticides in Produce

By Robert Coleman Every spring the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases our Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™. The guide can be used by anyone trying to avoid pesticides, but it’s especially important for parents to limit their children’s exposures to these toxic chemicals. The idea is simple: Parents can buy organic versions of the […]

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    What All Parents Need to Know About Pesticides in Produce

    What All Parents Need to Know About Pesticides in Produce

    By Robert Coleman Every spring the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases our Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™. The guide can be used by anyone trying to avoid pesticides, but it’s especially important for parents to limit their children’s exposures to these toxic chemicals. The idea is simple: Parents can buy organic versions of the […]

    Better Land Use Can Achieve 30% of Carbon Cuts by 2030

    Better Land Use Can Achieve 30% of Carbon Cuts by 2030

    By Tim Radford Land use is often a forgotten priority, yet those of us who wish to contain global warming and avert catastrophic climate change have a natural ally: the land. As nations plan to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion, an international team of scientists has calculated just how much the […]

    Wild Horses Under Siege on Public Lands

    Wild Horses Under Siege on Public Lands

    By Suzanne Roy America has two long-standing symbols for freedom: the bald eagle and the wild mustang. Wild horses are protected by a special law, which was unanimously passed by Congress in 1971 and designates mustangs as “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West” who “enrich the lives of the American […]

    Stephen Hawking: We Must Find Another Planet to Live On

    Stephen Hawking: We Must Find Another Planet to Live On

    Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the most intelligent individuals on the planet, which is why his assertion that humanity has only 1,000 years left on Earth and must find another place to colonize is incredibly frightening. “[W]e must … continue to go into space for the future of humanity,” professor Hawking said in […]

    Stephen Hawking + 374 Top Scientists: Trump’s Climate Denial Would Have ‘Severe and Long-Lasting’ Consequences

    Stephen Hawking + 374 Top Scientists: Trump’s Climate Denial Would Have ‘Severe and Long-Lasting’ Consequences

    During his final UN General Assembly address, President Obama pressed for a “sense of urgency” in bringing the Paris agreement into force and for scaling up ambition on climate action. He also called for more clean energy investment in developing countries. According to the United Nations, 30 countries are expected to formally join the Paris […]