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Climate-smart villages to come up in Tamil Nadu to protect state's agriculture against climate change
The impacts of climate change-fuelled changes not only affect individual farmers' livelihoods, but …
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Food packaging chemicals are seeping into human bodies — here's what that means for your health
Food containers and cookware are leaching more potentially hazardous chemicals into our bodies than…
Gabby Landsverk
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Grazing animals may be extremely vital to climate change mitigation and maintaining soil carbon health, new study reveals
Since soil contains more carbon than all plants and the atmosphere combined, it is important to ens…
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Margaritaville at Sea failed a surprise health inspection due to too many people in hot tubs and concerns about food safety
CDC officials inspected Margaritaville at Sea Paradise and found multiple issues. The cruise line s…
Monica Humphries
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More than one-third of worldwide annual emissions are being sequestered into the soil by fungi!
Recent research has shown that the massive underground network of fungi could end up storing about …
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Parasitic worms are set to become a whole lot more common because of climate change, study says
Climate change is often associated with rising temperatures, but it has also led to an overall incr…
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Why investors pumped $100 million into a startup using microbial fungi to turn soil into a crucial tool in the fight against climate change
The Australian startup Loam Bio is using microbial fungi to improve soil's ability to store carbon,…
Tasmin Lockwood
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A lawyer got fit in his 70s after prioritizing work over health for years. Three simple changes to his diet helped him set a swimming record at age 84.
A lawyer made healthy changes to his diet, including drinking less alcohol, when focused on his fit…
Serafina Kenny
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This agritech is mobilizing wet waste of cities as compost that’s saving crops, soil and farmers in rural areas
One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. A Pune-based agritech startup has taken this adage lit…
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More than 25% of biodiversity is under our feet — but we're destroying it. A biotech startup that's raised $56 million has a plan to help save our soil.
Humans rely on healthy soils for 95% of our food. The women-led startup Trace Genomics uses DNA dat…
Amanda Paule
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India could suffer from an increased risk of these four health concerns due to climate change
To say the warming planet will have severe implications on human health is a terrifying understatem…
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How melioidosis, a potentially deadly disease caused by bacteria found in US soil and water for the first time, spreads and is treated
Melioidosis, the illness caused by the bacteria strain, has killed 10 to 50% of people infected in …
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Researchers successfully grew plants in Apollo-era lunar soil. Their work could inform future space farmers.
Plants grown in moon dirt showed signs of stress, were smaller, and grew more slowly than their cou…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Wearables for plants, bacteria eating viruses, and 8 technologies in 2023 that can change the future
The World Economic Forum has announced ten breakthrough technologies set to change the world over t…
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A giant snail that eats plaster and is a threat to human health was spotted in a Florida county, forcing it into quarantine
The giant African land snail can grow up to 8 inches, lays thousands of eggs at a time, and carries…
Sonam Sheth
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The potentially toxic chemicals released in the Ohio train derailment and how they affect human health
Vinyl chloride and benzene, which are linked to certain cancers at high exposures, were among the p…
Allana Akhtar
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Soil health card boosts farm income up to Rs 30K/acre depending on crops: Study
So far, 429 new static soil testing labs (STLs), 102 New Mobile STLs, 8752 Mini STLs have been prov…
PTI
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A potentially deadly kind of bacteria has been found in US soil and water for the first time. These are the symptoms of an infection the CDC has said to look out for.
Melioidosis — a rare, serious disease caused by burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria — is…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Health experts call for a ban on toxic 'forever chemicals' after EPA moves to cut them from tap water
The EPA's proposal to filter PFAS out of drinking water "just doesn't go far enough," researchers s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Health ministry releases dos and don'ts to prevent contracting monkeypox
With rising cases of monkeypox in the country, the Union health ministry on Wednesday released a li…