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India is the accelerant of the global antimicrobial resistance crisis. Weak governance of pharmaceuticals, easy access to antibiotics, a high burden of infection driven by gaps in sanitation and health infrastructure, prolific antibiotic use in agriculture, and industrial pollution from …
Mariah Blake is an investigative journalist who has spent more than a decade chronicling the forever chemicals scandal. Her book "They Poisoned the World" chronicles a decades-long cover-up that hid the chemicals' links to cancer and birth defects.
The U.S. Forest Service is reorganizing its headquarters and closing 50 research facilities. Conservationists and scientists call the changes damaging and unnecessary. USFS has already experienced a year of researcher attrition due to layoffs and early retirements. The agency sent …
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