How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
Some animals' natural biological defenses could inspire new approaches to cancer prevention and treatment in humans
Researchers have long known that diet exerts a profound influence on health, including the risk of developing cancer. A new ...
DNA and 90 million-year-old pollen fossils reveal new insights into evolution of Asian tropics
In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...
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How proposed strategic plan could revamp Austin’s animal services, shelter operations
The draft plan is divvied up into six focus areas: humane care, spay and neuter services, open intake, live release, public health and ... second from the National Center for Animal Shelter ...
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Court Orders Trump Fish and Wildlife Service to Protect Endangered Species From Atrazine, Chlorpyrifos, Three Other Toxic Pesticides
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to assess what steps are needed to reduce widespread harms some of the ...
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Inside the harsh lives of wolves living at the top of the world
This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... A thousand miles past that stands the nearest plant you would actually recognize as a tree.
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Animal Testing: A Needless Cruelty or a Necessary Evil?
In a 2015 paper published by the journal Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Dr. Aysha Aktar, a neurologist and fellow at the Oxford Center for Animal ... National Institute of Environmental ...
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Swapping Animal Products for Plant-Based Foods—No Matter How Processed—Leads to Weight Loss, Finds New Study
Replacing animal products with plant-based foods, regardless of their level of processing, can lead to significant weight loss, according to new research by the Physicians Committee for Responsible ...
National Plant a Flower Day: Help pollinators like monarch butterflies with your garden
National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...
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What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us
Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it – and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can ...
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Animal Farms A ‘Cauldron’ For Dangerous Viruses, Says Dr Neal Barnard
Dr. Neal Barnard discusses the pandemic risks posed by farming animals on the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine ...
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National Plant a Flower Day: Help pollinators like monarch butterflies with your garden
It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly.