By Annabelle Timsit 11 June 2018 (Quartz) – We’ve long known that processed sugar is bad for kids. And yet new data presented this week (June 10) at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting show that American infants are consuming excessive amounts of added sugar in their diets, much more than the amounts currently […]
By Zach Urness 15 June 2018 (Salem Statesman Journal) – This is beginning to feel like a horror movie with a seemingly endless number of sequels. Call it: “Return of the toxic algae at Detroit Lake.” For the third time this season — and the second time in three days — the Oregon Health Authority […]
By Pam Wright 9 June 2018 (The Weather Channel) – Heavy rainfall from storms has increased by up to 70 percent in some areas of the United States since the 1950s and will only get worse in the coming years, thanks to global warming, scientists say.The 2014 National Climate Assessment reported that downpours from storms […]
By Robin Mcdowell, Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza, Julie Jacobson, and Niniek Karmini 14 June 2018 MONTAUK, New York (Associated Press) – Even after winter storms left East Coast harbors thick with ice, some of the country’s top chefs and trendy restaurants were offering sushi-grade tuna supposedly pulled in fresh off the coast of New York. […]
29 March 2018 (CDC) – An in-depth analysis of 2016 U.S. drug overdose data shows that America’s overdose epidemic is spreading geographically and increasing across demographic groups. The report, from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), appears in today’s issue of MMWR. Drug overdoses killed 63,632 Americans in 2016. Nearly two-thirds […]
LONDON, 6 June 2018 (IEP) – The 12th edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) report, produced by the international think-tank the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), revealed that the world is less peaceful today than at any time in the last decade. The 2018 GPI reveals a world in which the tensions, […]
By Franco Ordonez 13 June 2018 WASHINGTON (McClatchy) – The Trump administration is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas to shelter the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children being held in detention. The Department of Health and Human Services will visit Fort Bliss, a sprawling Army base near El Paso in […]
By Darryl Fears 7 June 2018 (The Washington Post) – The Trump administration issued a stern reply to Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Daniel Wenk’s offer to retire next year to avoid a reassignment to Washington: Leave your post by August or retire now.As first reported by The Washington Post, Wenk submitted a letter to National […]
By Susan Scutti 8 June 2018 (CNN) – Suicide rates increased by 25 percent across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016, according to research published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-five states experienced a rise in suicides by more than 30 percent, the government report finds. […]
By Bob Henson 6 June 2018 (Weather Underground) – After one of the coldest Aprils in U.S. history, last month delivered a stunning switch—the warmest May for the contiguous U.S. in records going back to 1895. May came in at 5.21°F above the 20th-century average, which beats out the Dust Bowl month of May 1934 […]
