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Three mule deer wandered up to a brand-new bridge near Grass Lake, in the far north of California, and walked across it. The bridge was built just for them, and other animals, and a trail camera caught them taking advantage of it. Remarkably, the bridge was not even finished being built when they used it.…Continue reading The Kind of People Who Build Bridges for Animals
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For years, the only way to fight against the weedkiller Roundup has been in a courtroom. Individuals who asserted that their lives had been forever altered by cancer from the weedkiller sued its maker, Bayer, which purchased the chemical’s original manufacturer, Monsanto, by the tens of thousands. At times, juries agreed with the plaintiffs and…Continue reading Kennedy Is in the Room. But Whose Science Is on the Table?
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$53.5 billion. That is what twenty of the world’s largest grain, fertilizer, meat, and dairy companies paid their shareholders over 2021 and 2022. The United Nations estimates that it would cost about $51.5 billion to feed the 230 million most desperate, hungry people on earth. So a single slice of the food industry handed out…Continue reading $53.5 Billion: A Food System That Feeds Its Investors
Massachusetts Governor Healey made headlines last week by ‘expanding abortion access.’ There was just one caveat. With Healey’s bill signing, she now joins nine other states and D.C. to eliminate the gestational age limits for an abortion. Once strictly guarded by four-pronged stopgap legal measures that governed the late-stage practice, the state’s fast-tracked bill now…Continue reading What’s a Life Worth in America as Massachusetts Now Allows Abortions Up To Birth
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We’ve all seen a dog asleep on the kitchen floor while its owner cooks dinner. This image is one of the most ordinary scenes in American life. According to research, for dogs, it is also a slow, steady exposure to industrial chemicals that we often don’t think about when it comes to our four-legged family. Our beloved…Continue reading The Canary on the Kitchen Floor
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A new structure is popping up across the United States, and most of us have never heard the name of it. The massive compound is called a frontier AI data center, a term coined as a legal category by the Biden administration in January 2025, and it represents nothing less than an unprecedented computer empire.…Continue reading Public Land, Private AI Empires
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the indispensable gatekeeper for vaccines and drugs in the U.S. Nothing reaches the market or can be legally administered without its approval or authorization. Other agencies play vital supporting or downstream roles, but FDA’s regulatory authority is foundational and unmatched. When Kennedy arrived at the helm of…Continue reading ANALYSIS: Is FDA’s New mRNA Flu Shot Approval Proof of Agency’s MAHA Purge?
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Presently, as smoke from more than 900 wildfires drifts across the continent and Americans gasp as they breathe it in sitting on their front porches, it is important to understand that our own government has helped make these fires worse by using glyphosate-based herbicides on our nation’s forests year after year, often from the air.…Continue reading Glyphosate Forests – Engineered to Burn
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With the FCC holding no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other serious ill effects from the rapidly increasing number of satellites orbiting the Earth, let’s look at the problem a new startup aims to solve, because it is almost comically small. Solar panels do not work after dark. The sun sets and the…Continue reading Sunlight on Demand – Whose Night Is It, Anyway?
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