2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1005+ words) Overlooked ocean foods such as oysters, mussels, shrimp and other invertebrates deliver surprisingly large amounts of essential vitamins and minerals. Fisheries and fish farms report their output in tons, which measures how much food there is but not what’s in…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (939+ words) Sunflowers can look fully recovered after drought while hidden blockages remain inside their stems for weeks, new research reveals. Water a wilted plant and within a day it stands back up, leaves lifted, looking like it healed. Inside the stem,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (913+ words) New research shows that shifting urban populations can change how efficiently sewage plants operate, revealing a potential way to cut emissions without new infrastructure. Every year, hundreds of millions of people flood out of Chinese cities for the Lunar New…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (878+ words) Climate change is reshaping heat exposure across generations, with young children facing a rapidly growing burden of dangerous humid heat. Up to 560 million children under age 10 – roughly 43% of all kids that age worldwide – are now living through at least an…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (921+ words) Flame retardants banned across Europe decades ago are still turning up in the environment, from industrial areas to remote Arctic and alpine regions. Some chemicals do not disappear after governments ban them. A sweeping new review found that flame retardants…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (731+ words) As Alpine glaciers retreat, new vegetation could change which flowers bees visit and how they encounter pathogens. Melting glaciers are reshaping more than mountain landscapes. New research from the Swiss Alps suggests that the vegetation emerging in their wake could…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (1121+ words) Workers exposed to pesticides on the job faced about a 60% higher risk of ALS, and the heaviest exposures nearly tripled this. Because insecticides kill by targeting nervous systems, their potential to harm humans is well understood. Herbicides and fungicides, however,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (711+ words) Climate change is raising childhood diarrhea risk across Africa, but access to clean water, electricity, and transportation may help protect children. However, a new study points to something that might soften the blow, and it is not a vaccine or…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1149+ words) Fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits suggest some saber-toothed cats suffered from painful spinal growths that may have made hunting difficult. The La Brea tar pits were the ultimate predator trap: a plant-eater would blunder into the asphalt, cry…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (726+ words) Thousands of public parks across America sit near toxic-release facilities and Superfund sites, revealing a hidden overlap in communities. More than half of America’s public parks sit within two miles of a facility that handles toxic chemicals. Tens of thousands…...