A single death has been confirmed—now public health officials must keep an outbreak from becoming an epidemic By Erin Blakemore It’s been three years since the Democratic Republic of Congo faced down its last epidemic of Ebola. Now, a case… Read More ›
By Alejandro Davila Fragoso When Meraldo Umiña moved to the Madre De Dios region of Peru in 1983, the toxic gold rush that’s destroyed swaths of Amazon rainforest there was in its infancy. There were no laws regulating informal or… Read More ›
By Dan Fagin THE national tourism agency calls the Mexican mountain town of Angangueo a “Pueblo Mágico.” If so, it is a dark magic. In recent years, Angangueo’s 5,000 inhabitants have been cursed by calamities natural and manufactured. Snowstorms, mudslides… Read More ›
snags your attention, a smell that has your brain singing chorals, a taste accompanied by moans of pleasure or a touch makes you tingle? There are 6 main senses in the system of the human brain and body that… Read More ›
Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about pseudoscience goes much broader. In part that’s because quack science has penetrated… Read More ›
By Nate Schweber Environmental damage from recent oil leak ranges from contaminated water supply to polluted farmland GLENDIVE, Montana — When an oil pipeline burst in July 2011 and poured 63,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River 200 miles… Read More ›
I saw this today and thought it is interesting information especially since the world is growing in population and getting smaller in terms of travel by people. When we think of climate change, warmer ones especially, there is also a… Read More ›
By Laura F. Friedman in the Business Insider Madagascar is currently experiencing an outbreak of the plague, the disease once known as the Black Death, the World Health Organization announced recently. The first case was reported in August. As of… Read More ›
When you review all the species and sub species there are a lot. The simplification that there was monkey and than there was chimp and than there was Neanderthal and than there was humans is a simplification of an… Read More ›
For centuries people thought that physique was the defining factor of racial identity. For many of those centuries, they also thought the world was flat. Unfortunately, there are people who still hold firmly to the belief that physique, more commonly… Read More ›
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