Health

Should President Obama should use his last year in office to effectively put measures in place that keep fossil fuels in the ground?

Six major food manufacturers have recently received fines for concealing the presence of GMOs in their products.

Meanwhile, a new paper published Jan. 6 in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental and Epidemiology only emphasizes why further evaluations on fracking fluids are a must.

Donor countries also have a long-term responsibility to the people they purport to support. To this end the governments of Britain, America and the European Union must ensure that the Ethiopian government put in place visionary plans to mitigate the impact of any future drought.

Campbell’s Soup says it will label its products on its own if a national standard is not set.

Researchers had information on reproductive and developmental toxicity for only 24 percent of over 1,000 chemicals they looked at.

Monsanto has been struggling for investor confidence following the announcement in March 2015 that the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency had declared the world’s most widely used weedkiller – glyphosate – a “probable human carcinogen”.

This year, national liberal groups are pushing ballot measures to tackle issues, such as gun control, marijuana legalization and increasing the minimum wage, that prove popular in polls but that politicians have generally avoided.

Jackson County, Oregon wins new protections against cultivation of genetically engineered crops.

A public health researcher explains why life expectancy in the United States is falling, and it has to do with income inequality rising.