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Health & Wellness

Big Food ‘Transparency’ Campaign Takes a Page From Big Tobacco

Stacy Malkan / U.S. Right To Know Nov 13, 2025 Dozens of food and beverage corporations and trade groups are pushing for a federal law that would override tough new state-level food safety laws in favor of a weaker federal standard. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

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The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think

Alistair Alexander / Truthdig Nov 10, 2025 As the microchips behind artificial intelligence grow in complexity, each generation requires more energy, minerals and water than the last, driving a ruinous cycle with no end in sight. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Environment

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Climate Denier Bjørn Lomborg’s Think Tank

Rei Takver / DeSmog Nov 7, 2025 Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Environment

‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South

Geoff Dembicki / DeSmog Nov 4, 2025 With Brazil about to host COP30, evidence emerges of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Environment

Scientists Have a Dire New Warning About the State of the Planet

Matt Simon / Grist Oct 30, 2025 Recent climatic developments "mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth," but it's not too late for radical action. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Letter from Des Moines: Cary Fowler, the World Food Prize and the Ghost of Norman Borlaug

Alexander Zaitchik / Truthdig Oct 30, 2025 At an annual corporate food powwow, Biotech and the State Department hungrily eye “opportunity crops” in Africa. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

VA Makes It Harder for Male Vets With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

Eric Umansky / ProPublica Oct 29, 2025 The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Conservationists Endorse the Age of Synthetic Biology

Lital Khaikin / Truthdig Oct 28, 2025 Delegates at the World Conservation Congress debated the wisdom of releasing GMOs into the wild, but rejected calls for a moratorium. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Environment

Trump Jeopardizes Plan to Reduce Global Shipping Emissions

Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Oct 24, 2025 After the Trump administration threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is left to an uncertain future. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail?

Stephanie Armour / KFF Health News Oct 16, 2025 A fringe conspiracy theory warning of menace from above takes wing at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

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NATO War-Games Climate Collapse

Lital Khaikin / Truthdig Oct 15, 2025 In Montreal, the alliance discusses planetary tipping points — without the input of a U.S. government that has chosen to fly blind. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

Why Isn’t the EPA Releasing Toxicity Reports on Forever Chemicals?

Sharon Lerner / ProPublica Oct 9, 2025 Agency scientists determined in April that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. But the Trump administration has yet to release the findings. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )