Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)(npr.org)

337 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 162 comments

NPR Goats and Soda article and radio segment on how lead chromate pigment added to turmeric was traced as a cause of lead poisoning from Bangladesh to New York.

The dream of polio eradication might need a rethink(npr.org)

27 points by lxm 3 years ago | 39 comments

We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought(npr.org)

78 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 20 comments

A measles vaccine painlessly delivered via sticker shows promising early results(npr.org)

116 points by _Microft 3 years ago | 40 comments

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial(npr.org)

22 points by yakito 2 years ago | 1 comments

How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)(npr.org)

74 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 53 comments

Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars(theatlantic.com)

24 points by fortran77 6 days ago | 89 comments

An Atlantic technology article by Andrew Moseman on why Americans keep paying more for gas cars instead of switching to electric vehicles despite high gas prices.

The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law(somo.nl)

368 points by saubeidl 10 months ago | 208 comments

SOMO investigation into how US fossil fuel companies are lobbying to weaken the EU's corporate sustainability due diligence rules on human rights and climate.

Doomscrolling ourselves to death(edwest.co.uk)

377 points by shubhamjain 1 month ago | 281 comments

Ed West's Substack essay on children's media diets and doomscrolling, discussing James Marriott's 'The New Dark Ages'.

LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed(theregister.com)

341 points by rntn 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Register news article on Los Angeles County wildfires forcing about 70,000 evacuations and the closure of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa(e360.yale.edu)

383 points by speckx 3 months ago | 87 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article, republished from Inside Climate News, on a thriving coral reef discovered off Benin in West Africa that was long presumed dead.