Drinking Water With Meals May Make You Eat More, Not Less Sip water at meals to feel full and eat less is the advice we hear. A Cornell and Penn State analysis found people who drank more water during a meal ate roughly 39 grams more food per 100 grams of water.
Land of Canaan An environmental meditation following Palestinian farmers and their ancient olive trees: living symbols of livelihood, heritage, and resistance. Land of Canaan documents a way of life, shows us what is at stake, and why it must be protected.
The Cephalopods Are Coming A paleontologist who’s studied mass extinctions for over five decades has an unsettling observation: after each of Earth’s past extinctions, squid, ammonites, and their relatives exploded in number and diversity.
Boxtown Was Founded by Freed People in 1863, in 2024 It Got the World’s Largest AI Supercomputer Boxtown, a Memphis neighborhood founded by formerly enslaved people, is now home to Elon Musk’s Colossus supercomputer. Residents already dealing with high asthma rates from decades of nearby industry are watching a new source of emissions move in next door.
Background Noise While You Sleep Could Be Bad for Your Brain Researchers at the University of Freiburg played soft clicking sounds during sleep, quiet enough that participants barely noticed them, and it still disrupted the slow brain waves responsible for locking in memories overnight.
Middle-Aged Women Are Ditching Wine Nights for Raves, and It’s Working Women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are showing up at raves, and a University of Leeds study backs up what a lot of them are already feeling: real mental health benefits from the dancing, the connection, the release.
Interview: Dr. Michael Antoniou on the Dangers of Glyphosate Now that the Supreme Court has sided with Bayer on Roundup liability, this interview digs into what glyphosate toxicologist Dr. Michael Antoniou thinks regulators keep getting wrong. Agencies test glyphosate alone instead of the full commercial mixtures people are actually exposed to.
Beans Are One of the Healthiest Foods You Can Eat, Here Are the Best Ones Cheap, filling, loaded with fiber and protein, and most Americans still don’t eat enough of them. This roundup runs through standout picks like lentils, chickpeas, and black beans and what each one offers nutritionally.
Men’s Average Testosterone Levels Have Halved in the Last 50 Years, Say Scientists A new analysis tracking nearly 119,000 men across five countries found total testosterone dropped 54% between 1972 and 2019. Obesity and diabetes get most of the blame, but researchers also flag endocrine disrupting chemicals as a possible factor. Our chemical exposures add up in ways we’re still only beginning to trace.
This Farmer Wanted to Quit the Cocaine Industry, He Couldn’t A Colombian farmer pulled up his coca plants and planted cassava and plantain instead, through a government substitution program. The support the program promised mostly never showed up, bad roads, floods, no buyers for the new crops. Farmers keep getting asked to take the leap while the safety net underneath them gets pulled away.
Tampax Pearl Lawsuit Claims Tampons Contain Dangerous Amounts of Lead Several class action lawsuits now accuse Procter & Gamble of selling Tampax Pearl tampons with unsafe lead levels. There’s no known safe exposure level for lead.
Critics Say Argentine GM HB4 Wheat Is a “Failure” and Cannot Withstand Drought HB4 wheat was sold as a drought tolerant GMO breakthrough. In several regions it’s yielded less than conventional wheat, drought or no drought. Critics say the real selling point was never drought resistance, it was tolerance to glufosinate, a herbicide the EU has banned over toxicity concerns. The marketing and the field results keep telling two different stories.
The Rise of Blue-Space Therapy: How the Sea Is Helping People Deal With Trauma, Anxiety and Addiction Sailing programs for veterans with PTSD, surf therapy for people in addiction recovery, mental health practitioners are increasingly turning to oceans, rivers, and lakes as part of treatment.
‘A Public Health Emergency Waiting to Occur’: How US Industry Groups Spent Years Fighting Who Gets to Measure Toxic Air A Floodlight investigation found Louisiana’s public air monitors often sit miles from the state’s biggest polluters and skip testing for some of the most dangerous chemicals. One resident near chemical storage tanks started collecting her own air samples, only to have the state pass a law restricting how she could use that data.
Healthy Diet Too Expensive for One in Three People Globally, UN Report Finds The cost of eating healthy has jumped 25% in five years, and 2.69 billion people worldwide can’t afford it. Government subsidies have long propped up cheap calories like grains, while fruits, vegetables, and protein stay comparatively expensive.
We Know How to Mourn Other Humans, but What About Ecological Grief? Climate change is wiping out species and reshaping landscapes people have known their whole lives, and researchers are calling the resulting sense of loss “ecological grief.” There’s no established ritual for it yet.
What Canada Buried to Build Its Parks Parks Canada’s own internal review just admitted what Indigenous communities have said for generations: the country’s national parks were built by pushing Indigenous peoples off land they’d stewarded for generations. No consultation.
War-Induced Fertilizer Shortage May Be Reducing US Soil and Water Pollution Fertilizer prices are spiking because of global conflict, and researchers found an odd upside: decades of over-application left US soils packed with nutrient reserves crops can draw on. Regenerative farmers have been saying less is more for years, and now a war is proving them right.
