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China is rapidly and illegally gobbling up the world’s second largest rainforest, in Africa, to fuel America’s appetite for cheap furniture.

European Union votes to ban plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates and carry-out containers across the continent

Open the curtains! Or maybe build more windows! Study finds sunlight is the best disinfectant!

A groundbreaking study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds eating organic cuts cancer risk by up to 25 percent

The U.S. Government and oil industry have hidden the second-worst oil spill in history for 14 years, and now want to expand offshore drilling

An aerial image of an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, taken on April 28, 2018. (Oscar Garcia-Pineda)

Babies are subject to all kinds of hospital procedures adults would receive anesthesia for without any pain relief, because of the archaic belief that they don’t feel pain. This study may mark the end of those dark ages. 

An artificial reef made of tires in the 1970s is breaking apart, damaging actual coral reefs and littering beaches with old tires

Factory farmed animals have such poor diets and stressful living conditions, they have to eat antibiotics regularly just to stay alive, creating superbugs that get passed to humans

Scientists say the world depends on the rain forest to prevent catastrophic climate change. The man likely to be Brazil’s next president threatens to cut it down.

Canadians celebrate becoming the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana yesterday