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Climate Change Could Be Impetus for Wars, Other Conflicts, Expert Says

A discussion has ensued among international-security experts who believe climate-change-related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may increasingly serve as triggers for wars and other conflicts in the future. [...more]

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Oprah checks out the vegan diet: Will America follow?

One of the best things to ever happen to public health happened this month when Oprah Winfrey announced she was starting a 21-day vegan makeover. If anyone can inspire positive change in America, it's someone as influential as Oprah. The healthy vegan diet, which is free of meat, chicken, eggs, dairy and other animal products - but rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans - is finally coming into its own. [...more]

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The tragic consequences of climate change for the world’s children

A new UNICEF UK report launched today - exactly ten years after the UK signed the Kyoto Protocol (on 29 April 1998) - reveals that the world’s poorest and most vulnerable children are being hit the hardest by the impact of climate change. The report, ‘Our climate, our children, our responsibility: the implications of climate change for the world’s children’ draws attention to the fact that climate change is impacting very seriously on children and their rights. [...more]

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10 Things You Should Know About Tree ‘Offsets’

Forest and climate change campaigner Jutta Kill explains why planting trees is no substitute for reducing pollution. [...more]

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Myths Of The Global Market

Free markets are often presented as the sole solution to poverty and human development. But the global market is inefficient and life-destructive, writes John McMurtry. [...more]

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Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching (Introduction & Video)

Most of us know the flu-influenza-as a nuisance disease, an annual annoyance to be endured along with taxes, dentists, and visits with the in-laws. Why worry about influenza when there are so many more colorfully gruesome viruses out there like Ebola? Because influenza is scientists' top pick for humanity's next killer plague. Up to 60 million Americans come down with the flu every year. What if it suddenly turned deadly? [...more]

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Cloned or conventional, meat is unsafe

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently declared that meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs and goats and their offspring are "as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals." That´s like saying that brand A cigarettes are as safe to smoke as brand B. The question isn´t whether meat and milk from cloned animals pose additional health risks—it´s why would anyone want to consume meat and milk at all? [...more]

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Diabetes in America (comic and comments)

Children in China are now adopting western diets by consuming more red meat, more dairy products, more processed sugars and refined white flour. The result? They're not starving anymore; they're suffering from diabetes! [...more]

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Whole grain diets lower risk of chronic disease

Diets with high amounts of whole grains may help achieve significant weight loss, and also reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to a team of Penn State researchers at University Park and the College of Medicine. [...more]

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