Mwendwa P. was 16 when she became pregnant for the first time. When she went into labor, she did not want to go to the hospital near her town in Kenya because, she had heard that nurses abuse girls who got pregnant when they go into delivery. So, she decided to go through a painful [...]

There is growing concern over the health impact of growing and eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The World Health Organization has identified allergenicity, antibiotic resistance, gene transfer, outcrossing, GM genes introduced into the wild population, gene stability, susceptibility of non-target organisms (insects), and loss of biodiversity as potential issues of using GM seeds. Currently, most [...]

After thousands of years of agriculture taking place on China’s Loess Plateau, forests were turned into a dry zone and due to the loss of trees fine yellow soil was left vulnerable to erosion.  The erosions filled the rivers with silt and all the flooding resulted in major environmental damage. However, sixteen years ago, the [...]

The distinct genetic characteristics of salmon populations in Spain are being lost as a result of climate change and human interference.  Losing distinct genetic characteristics means potentially losing salmon altogether in areas like Spain.  One major hypothesis describing why this is occurring is humans have caused straying fish (foreign fish invading areas where salmon naturally [...]

Amid the media frenzy and speculation over the disappearance of Air France flight 447, the loss of two of the world’s most prominent figures in the war on the illegal arms trade has been virtually overlooked. Pablo Dreyfus, who was traveling with is wife aboard the flight from Rio de Janerio to Paris, had worked with [...]