Trump Should Have Never Ditched the Iran Nuclear Deal
The JCPOA was working before the U.S. pulled out in 2018, and another accord is still the best way forward.
The World Is Doubling Down on Climate Business—With Or Without the U.S.
The work goes on, but the U.S. is no longer at the center of the climate universe.
Waska: the cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon
The plant medicine hayakwaska (ayahuasca), marketed as a mystical shortcut to healing and enlightenment, is an example of what the Indigenous storyteller Nina Gualinga, sees as commodification and extractivism in the Amazon. Nina is from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing Continue reading...
Waska: the cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon
The plant medicine hayakwaska (ayahuasca), marketed as a mystical shortcut to healing and enlightenment, is an example of what the Indigenous storyteller Nina Gualinga, sees as commodification and extractivism in the Amazon. Nina is from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing Continue reading...
Dehorning rhinos reduces poaching by 80%, study finds
Cutting off the animals’ horns more effective than traditional protection methods such as rangers and costs less, say expertsCutting the horns off rhinos causes a large reduction in poaching, according to a new study, which raises questions about the effectiveness of expensive anti-poaching techniques used to protect the African mammals.Poaching for horn is a significant threat to the world’s five rhino species. The substance, which is similar to human fingernails, is commonly used for traditional medicine in China, Vietnam and other Asian countries. Dealers in the hidden market will pay tens of thousands of dollars for the horns, which are falsely believed to be effective at treating fevers, pain and a low sex drive in traditional medicine. Continue reading...
Cancer experts warn of coffee enemas and juice diets amid rise in misinformation
Oncologists say patients rejecting proven treatments are dying needlessly because of increase in online ‘cures’Cancer patients are snubbing proven treatments in favour of quackery such as coffee enemas and raw juice diets amid an “alarming” increase in misinformation on the web, doctors have said.Some were dying needlessly or seeing tumours spread as a result, oncologists said. They raised their concerns at the world’s largest cancer conference in Chicago, the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Asco). Continue reading...
Hancock ignored call to test all NHS staff, Covid inquiry hears
Two Nobel prize-winning scientists worried about "asymptomatic transmission" between staff and patients.
Hancock ignored call to test all NHS staff, Covid inquiry hears
Two Nobel prize-winning scientists worried about "asymptomatic transmission" between staff and patients.
Soviet-era spacecraft 'likely' to have re-entered Earth's atmosphere
The spacecraft, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, circled Earth for over five decades.
Soviet-era spacecraft 'likely' to have re-entered Earth's atmosphere
The spacecraft, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, circled Earth for over five decades.
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