Ted Cruz Is Concerned About NASA Studying the Environment and Climate Change; Says It ‘Lost its Full Focus’
Marquette Michigan – We recently discovered the HBO series “Vice” which tackles many of the world’s hot topics in documentary style investigative episodes. Their recent coverage on the melting of Antarctica glaciers and the global issue of rising of sea water is not to be missed. The most alarming aspect of this subject uncovered by […]
Is Air Pollution Harming Children’s Brains?
Air pollution’s latest victim: Children’s cognitive development. Elementary school children who are exposed to chronic air pollution may develop cognitive abilities more slowly than children who breathe cleaner air, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine. Researchers with the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) surveyed over two thousand Barcelona […]
Greek Yogurt’s Benefits Don’t Include Its Whey Byproduct
The benefits of eating Greek yogurt may include controlling blood pressure, promoting the health of your bones and digestive tract, and possibly even weight loss, yet there’s a real downside to the stuff. The negatives come in the form of an environmentally harmful byproduct, acid whey, created during production. Though the problem exists, scientists at […]
Do You Really Know What’s Going On With GMOs?
We’ve been conditioned to avoid genetically modified organisms (GMOs) at all costs, but how many of us really know what we’re dealing with when it comes to the direct manipulation of an organism’s DNA in a laboratory setting? Food containing GMOs only started appearing on grocery store shelves back in the late 1990s, so it […]
Beer and brats: Find the perfect pairing
Marquette Michigan – It doesn’t take long for newcomers to the Upper Peninsula to discover that beer and brats are a way of life here! Growing up with a dad of German descent I didn’t know that it was even possible to cook brats without first marinating them in a bubbly beer bath. I later […]