When Yasmin Mulbocus found no justice after being sexually abused, she was drawn to an Islamic extremist group she believed could protect her. Twenty years later, she’s trying to stop other women from making the same mistake.
Nutrients are substances necessary for the proper function, health, and support of your body and its processes. Essential nutrients are those that either cannot be made by the body at all or cannot be made in high enough amounts and must be consumed in the foods you eat.
Crickets and other edible insects are delicious, environmentally sound and high in nutritional value.
Flawed regulatory schemes have led to a passive, albeit legal, poisoning of the environment that we should no longer accept.
What does it say when a teacher who encourages students to discuss nonsexual ways to express love causes controversy?
If the election has you up in arms it could be because you don’t know how to integrate the relationship between the macrocosm and your microcosm. You might be looking at our political candidates from the perspective of what they will do or not do for us, and there is that, but there is also that they reflect who we are, both light and dark.
Products with a new certification that aims to solve the chemical conundrum for consumers are hitting store shelves this spring.
Reduction in global meat consumption is key to mitigating climate change, according to a new report by Chatham House.
If approved, bill would allow children of all ages to use handguns as long as they are under adult supervision…
For people who want to control their weight or reduce their intakes of sugar, sodium and saturated fat, water may be the answer.
Since the invention of electric light, the night has been getting progressively brighter. But a growing body of research shows experiencing total darkness is critical to our well-being.
During President Obama’s final State of the Union address, he called for reforms to the voting process, saying, “We’ve got to make it easier to vote, not harder. We need to modernize it for the way we live now.”
John Grisham’s latest novel veers far away from his typical courtroom settings to provide information about an alternative cure for cancer — and he thinks it’s so vital, the book is free for everyone.
How many times have you thought about doing something, turn around and your intent vanished into thin air? You can't remember what you were about to do. The simple fact is that in the act of turning around, you shifted the reality you were in.
Maine set to become third state in the country to offer telemedicine abortion, expanding access from three clinics to 19
The millions of people in the United States who are denied equal rights because they are immigrants have vast stockpiles of wisdom and rich culture to share; they engage in more strategic and courageous activism than do non-immigrants…
Many environmental campaigns over the past 50 years have aimed at getting people to care for imperiled species in wild, far-off places.
Perhaps no health topic is subject to more controversy than dieting. There are raw diets, organic diets, and countless others, all available to any health-conscious person.
The International Year of Soils came to a close on December 4, but that won’t be the end of the work for many soil projects.
Justice Scalia was a thorn in the side of the environmental movement. Now that his seat is up for grabs, the Supreme Court could be in position to make serious gains for the climate.
Dear EarthTalk: I’m in the market for a new set of non-stick cookware for my kitchen, and I’m wondering which type is healthiest?
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