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The war on drugs has had devastating effects on human rights and public health worldwide, argue experts in The BMJ today. In November, the journal…
NEW YORK (December 5, 2016)--The relative portion of older adherents to the world's religions will shift in the coming decades, according to a study by…
Monsanto's herbicide glyphosate is once again in the spotlight. Cancer experts will be reviewing the science on glyphosate for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were…
LONDON, 2 September, 2016 – Human numbers are predicted to grow by 33% in the next 33 years – and that is worrying news for a…
Is there a concentrated plan actively in place to reduce the human population on Planet Earth?  What a question to ask! However, according to a…
A new review of four decades of science has come to this conclusion: organic agriculture has a key role to play in feeding the world. To analyze…
Global elites meet in the remote Swiss town of Davos each year for the World Economic Forum. The conclave began in 1971, but it became…
Population growth and fossil fuel use, seen on a time-scale of several thousand years. The dots are population estimates in millions from the US Census…
Is the world really overpopulated, or are humans just utilizing resources at an unsustainable rate in irresponsible fashion? Debate persists, but what is known is…
Global poverty has halved over the last decade, but a staggering 71% of the world’s population remains low-income or poor, living off $10 or less…
Global markets are changing drastically and showing volatilities like we saw back in late 2008.  I am not talking about stock markets, it is the…
Researchers report that as the world population increases and food demand has grown, globalization of trade has made the food supply more sensitive to environmental…