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A petition asking fast food companies to stop giving out “single-use plastic” toys gets almost half a million signatures

Critically endangered hummingbird eggs are smaller than jellybeans, here’s how to spot and protect them:

Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Did you know the hens that laid your “organic” eggs may have never set foot on bare earth or seen the light of day?

Internal documents reveal Monsanto paid Google to suppress news stories about the Roundup-cancer link

Fewer people are overdosing on opioid painkillers in states that allow medical marijuana

Chemical analysis of 2-million-year-old teeth proves breastfeeding 6-year-olds was the norm for early humans

Fines and lifelong jail sentences haven’t stopped wildlife poachers, so Kenya proposes death penalty

Teenager wins Google Science award for genius invention that could cheaply remove most microplastics from the ocean

Sunscreen blocks vitamin D absorption leading to all kinds of disease, including skin cancer. Building up a gradual tan acts as a natural sunscreen, protecting against burns and allowing us to soak up more of this life-saving vitamin.

Bees voted more important than fungi, plankton, and primates when it comes to survival of life on earth as we know it