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Healing Hazard: Health Care Sector Impacts Climate

Oct 31, 2019 08:30AM

A study claims that if the global health care sector were a country, it would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet.

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Hot Habits: Phoenix Shifts to a Cooler Night Mode

Oct 31, 2019 08:30AM

In Phoenix, one of the hottest and fastest-warming cities in the U.S. with heat waves and triple-digit days, work and play are shifting into the cooler hours at dawn and dusk.

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Abandoned Crops: Economics Drive Farm Food Losses

Oct 31, 2019 08:30AM

According to a new study, about one-third of edible produce remains unharvested in the fields, where it rots and gets plowed under.

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Fight MRSA With Herbal Extracts

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

A study finds that herbal extracts significantly reduced the ability of MRSA bacteria to grow and spread, a finding that may help develop new strategies against the superbug.

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Try Fennel Oil to Fight Vaginal Yeast

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Laboratory researchers have found that fennel oil has significant antifungal properties against vaginal yeast infections caused by Candida species.

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Reduce Kids’ Risk of High Blood Pressure With Maternal Vitamin D

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Children born with low vitamin D levels, determined by the mothers' levels during pregnancy, have an approximately 60 percent higher risk of elevated systolic blood pressure.

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Protect Kids From Bullying to Lower Risk of Teen Depression

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Kids that are bullied at age 10 have eight times the rate of depression in their teen years.

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Consider Motherwort to Reduce Postpartum Bleeding

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

An injection of oriental motherwort can help decrease blood loss and other adverse events for mothers giving birth.

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Avoid Pesticides to Lower Kids’ Risk of Depression

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Another reason to consider organics: A study of teens and preteens linked high exposure to pesticides to a higher risk of depression.

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Take Cordyceps to Enhance Immunity

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Cordyceps, a fungus that grows on caterpillars high in the Himalayas, has been shown to boost the immune system by detecting and killing virus-infected cells, tumor cells and abnormal cells.

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Boot the Bottle for Mental Well-Being

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Study finds that men and women who have abstained from alcohol during their lives have the highest levels of mental well-being.

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Take Rosemary to Boost Memory, Mood and Sleep

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Rosemary herbal supplements can help to improve memory and sleep, reduce anxiety and lessen depression.

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Panther Power: Texas Pumas Counter Inbreeding

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

The endangered Florida panther has been saved from extinction thanks to the introduction of female Texan pumas.

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Other-Worldly Rock: Extraterrestrial Matter Found on Earth

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

A 3.3 billion-year-old layer of rock has been found in South Africa that contains two types of insoluble organic matter, suggesting extraterrestrial origins.

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Diplomatic Freeze: Conflicts Heating Up Over Arctic Reserves

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Scientists warn that the Arctic is heating up much faster than the world average because of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

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Humanitarian Plea: Environmental Destruction Tapped as War Crime

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

A group of 24 scientists is urging that environmental destruction in conflict zones be treated as war crimes by establishing a new protocol in the Geneva Conventions.

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Tiny Scrubbers: Nanoparticles Purify Water

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

A chemical engineer who grew up in Tanzania has designed a water purification system based on nanomaterials that is being put into use throughout the country.

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Runoff Results: Gulf Dead Zone Keeps Growing

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Agricultural fertilizer runoffs from the Midwest are resulting in an algae-choked “dead zone” the size of Massachusetts at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Fertile Fish: Unexpected Aquatic Rebound

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

Overfished and struggling widow rockfish are returning to the Pacific coast faster than expected, thanks to legal protections.

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Mushrooming Problem: Climate Crisis May Promote Superbugs

Sep 30, 2019 08:30AM

A new analysis links climate change to the recent global rise of a multidrug-resistant fungal superbug, Candida auris.

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