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The controversy around the linkage between pesticide use and cancer has been given fresh tinder from two recent studies conducted by the University of Idaho and Northern Arizona University. One study analyzed pediatric and total cancer rates in eleven states…Read More

World Refugee Day falls on June 20th each year, but it never looks the same in a world with an ever-evolving political environment. The UN Refugee Agency sponsors this holiday and decides upon an annual theme. For 2022, this is,…Read More

If there’s something that has the power to unify people’s hearts it’s music! Like me, you may get transported back to when and where a particular song was playing. In my case, music brings back memories of my childhood when…Read More

Today is Emergency Nurses Day, and after what has been 19 months of pandemic response in the United States, we have all observed first-hand the essential role our nurses play in taking care of our communities. There are over 4 million active nurses…Read More

Photo: Luxiders Climate change is for the first time a main topic driving a U.S. presidential agenda. The opportunities to get on track and reverse key rollbacks made by the Trump administration are many. Only time will tell how much…Read More

2020 – Year in Review We decided to take a look back on 2020 – a year like no other that’s for sure. Here are 18 surprising and serious events noted for the first time ever this year. 1. Woman…Read More

While we are in the midst of one of the most consequential elections of our time, at eco18 we wanted to gauge the state of a major, if not the biggest priority of our time: the climate crisis. From devastating…Read More

Changing the Paradigm for Childhood Cancer: From Cure to Prevention September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about this insidious disease that is expected to claim the lives of 1,730 children between 0 and 19…Read More

A decade ago, climate change was a somewhat abstract notion, but today it’s a reality for much of the West. For the past three weeks, California, Oregon, and Washington fires have burned insanely hot, destroyed millions of acres of land,…Read More

Robots in the ocean. Are we really surprised? I mean, some of the things that robots can do nowadays are incredible. And as the relationship between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and climate change technologies is explored, robots’ roles in traveling…Read More