In my caseload, I often work with my patients on the benefits of real rest. So at the end of a long year of hard work, it was clearly time for me to take my own advice. Which is why I found myself last week in the Big Sky country, on a working horse ranch called the Beartooth River Ranch, Belfry,...
Sep
17
Few people give the human appendix much respect. It is seen as a curiously inactive and useless part of our anatomy, and we rarely give it much thought unless something is wrong with it—at which point it is promptly removed, and we go on with life as normal, bearing no indication that entire...
Sep
10
How to plan outdoor activities using the Air Quality Health Index to avoid smog and pollution.
Environment Canada Air Quality Health Index
Sep
03
A look at the planet’s water, how it’s being used, and the increasing strains on this vital resource, by Sustainable Guidance. In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential rate as population and...
Sep
03
Using data from the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory, the Natural Resources Defense Council has compiled a list of states with the most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants. Release of the analysis, entitled “Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States”...
Jul
22
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday a new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to improve air quality for 240 million Americans by significantly reducing harmful smokestack emissions produced outside of their own state borders.
Specifically...
Jul
08
Blue-green algal bloom. Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma is one of the most prominent climate change deniers in the U.S., and a frequent critic of the regulatory practices of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
An unfortunate run-in with reality,...
Jul
06
An analysis of several studies reveals that the Latino community faces a disproportionate risk from toxic mercury pollution due to a combination of cultural, economic and linguistic factors.
The analysis, based largely on previously unreleased data from the polling firm Bendixen &...
Jul
05
