Taking Care of Your Teeth Could Help Prevent Arthritis and Joint Pain

Taking care of your teeth could help prevent chronic joint pain, according to a scientist who spotted a clue in discarded data. Rice University computational biologist Vicky Yao found traces of bacteria associated with periodontal disease in samples collected from rheumatoid arthritis patients, helping spur research that confirmed a connection between the diseases. Tracing this […]

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‘The Last of Us’ is fiction, but these deadly fungus threats are real — and climate change could mean more of them – Yahoo News

(Photo illustration: Kelli R. Grant/Yahoo News; photos: HBO MAX, Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The HBO series “The Last of Us,” inspired by the video game of the same name, has captured many people’s imaginations, by proposing the possibility of…

How could the way we eat contribute to global warming? – The Hill

How could the way we eat contribute to global warming? | The Hill Skip to content FILE – People sit, drinking and eating, outside cafes and pubs Soho, central London, April 12, 2021. Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans…

Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points

More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. The worst single leak spewed the pollution at a rate equivalent to 67m…

Australia joins Vanuatu bid for international court to rule on obligation to prevent climate harm

Australia will co-sponsor Vanuatu’s historic bid for the international court of justice to rule on the climate crisis, including the legal consequences for causing significant environmental harm. The Pacific island country will soon put a resolution to the UN general…

Climate Change: Short On Proof, Drowning In Nonsense

The environmentalist creed in context Environmentalism, more particularly its prevalent global warming strain, dominates politics. It is the fourth such banner raised by the disgruntled that has conditioned politics since Medieval times. Earlier eras saw politics underpinned by a struggle…

Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict – Nature.com

Abstract Climate change and human–wildlife conflict are both pressing challenges for biodiversity conservation and human well-being in the Anthropocene. Climate change is a critical yet underappreciated amplifier of human–wildlife conflict, as it exacerbates resource scarcity, alters human and animal behaviours…

New Book Exposes How EV Makers Are ‘Ransacking The Congo’ For Cobalt

Imagine for a moment if the oil and gas sector had direct (or indirect) connections to slavery, child labor, or working conditions so dangerous that thousands of their workers were dying on the job every year. The uproar and indignation…

Unhealthy Fat Could Be Turned Into ‘Good Fat’ to Keep Us Youthful and Thinner

Did you know your body actually contains three different kinds of fat? That’s right, humans have brown, beige, and white fat adipose tissues, and a newfound ability to turn one into the other could create a revolution in metabolic disease prevention. By turning a select number of genes in white fat cells off, they reverted […]

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Insulate Britain activist Xavier Gonzalez-Trimmer found dead

A young activist who campaigned with THE climate groups Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil has been found dead after going missing almost a week ago. Xavier Gonzalez-Trimmer, 22, was found in Richmond Park on Monday after searches by friends…