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Despite a decade-long ban on fireworks at Mount Rushmore on environmental and public health grounds, President Trump is planning a fireworks show at the famous site on July 3...

Humans must address environmental issues now if they wish to avoid future pandemics, WWF International stated in a report released last week. Top drivers of new zoonotic diseases include wildlife trade and consumption, deforestation...

Lockdowns have forced many to stay home. With all that time inside, you can’t help but pay close attention to the interior details of your home. Many have turned to home improvement projects to make productive...

It’s a bad week for horseshoe crabs as their defenders have failed to convince big pharma that synthetic crab blood is a viable alternative for endotoxin testing in drugs...

As some of the biggest national parks start to reopen, visitors reassure themselves that it is safe to be outdoors. But unfortunately in places like the ever-popular Yellowstone National Park, everybody is crowding in to...

Now that states are starting to ease their lockdowns, outdoorsy and active people are eager to hit the trails or pick up their tennis rackets and golf clubs...

We’ve already seen interspecies transmission of COVID-19 happen in the Bronx, where an asymptomatic zookeeper infected five tigers and four lions. Now, as the infamous Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park reopens, will...

It turns out being locked up in our own homes with our own families is not the end of the world Some said the lockdowns would cause skyrocking divorces: More couples will SPLIT and divorce rates will skyrocket as strict social...

A pulse Oximeter     | Image Thinkpaul: Wikimedia A cheap device might keep people off ventilators and be the first warning of trouble In coronavirus blood oxygen levels can silently drop to unheard of levels...

Workers at ‘most toxic place in America’ are terrified to return to a site where there has been very little protection from the outbreak

A pulse Oximeter     | Image Thinkpaul: Wikimedia A cheap device might keep people off ventilators and be the first warning of trouble In coronavirus blood oxygen levels can silently drop to unheard of levels...

Mortality rates show that this is a medical situation we have not seen since WWII All statistics are suspect but some numbers still tell us something important...

As SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus pathogen that causes the illness COVID-19, sweeps across the globe, social distancing measures are noticeably impacting the environment...

Crafters began making fabric masks when the public learned that COVID-19 was causing a major shortage of personal protective equipment. But since the CDC changed its recommendation on April 3 to urge that everyone wears a...

Miners with black lung struggle during the pandemic with layoffs, benefit cuts and the threat of a virus that would almost certainly kill them