(Natural News) Over 50 groups are clamoring for Iowa lawmakers to mark as urgent the passing of a landmark legislation to enact a moratorium on factory farm expansion in a state that is home to more than 10,000 farm factories. Krissy Kasserman, the national factory farm campaigner at Food & Water Watch, is of the opinion that factory […]

(Natural News) For years now, Akwesasne Mohawks have been fighting to preserve their heritage, facing state and federal governments and the scientific industrial complex amid a crippling environmental degradation issue that threatens to endanger the very nature of their existence. The entire area where the Akwesasne Mohawks live, which is called the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve, […]

(Natural News) Under a proposal introduced in the United Kingdom, wood-burning stoves have the possibility of being banned in a bid to reduce air pollution. London Mayor Sadiq Amar Khan has recently written to Michael Andrew Gove, British Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and asked the government to penalize all wood-burning […]

(Natural News) A court has sentenced 34-year-old activist and environmental blogger Hoang Duc Binh to 14 years of imprisonment for livestreaming fishermen who are marching to sue Formosa Plastics Group, owner of a $10.6 billion Taiwan-based steel plant for spilling toxins into the ocean. Binh was found guilty of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on […]

(Natural News) A study titled “The effects of stair climbing on arterial stiffness, blood pressure, and leg strength in postmenopausal women with stage 2 hypertension” that was published in a recent issue of the journal Menopause revealed that simply using the stairs could help alleviate the symptoms of menopause, such as high blood pressure and leg muscle weakness. […]

(Natural News) Americans look at their phones 80 times a day on average, which is equivalent to one look very 12 minutes, according to a study by technology insurance provider Asurion released in November 2017. This type of research has caused an increasing amount of concern regarding the issue of smartphone addiction. Smartphones have been […]

(Natural News) A new study which was published in Neurology – the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology – revealed that women with high blood pressure in their forties have a 73 percent higher risk of dementia. Researchers at Kaiser Permanente in California followed the lives of 7,238 people from 1964 to 1973 and had their blood pressure monitored […]

(Natural News) Researchers at New York University School of Medicine, in a study that was published in the online journal Immunity, found that a calcium signal manages the immune cells’ ability to use the nutrients that are needed to boost their reproduction into a cellular army so as to drive away invading viruses. The study findings […]

(Natural News) In a recent study that was conducted by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, it was revealed that fish are exposed to too much plastic. It has reached such a severity that tiny  plastic particles find their way inside the fishes’ brains and negatively impact the fish’s behavioral patterns, inducing them to quit […]

(Natural News) Reviewing the weight gain risks that hound women during their midlife has encouraged researchers at The Mayo Clinic to give out a series of recommendations to lessen the menopausal challenges during this trying time in their lives. The findings were published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers said that women in this age group tend to […]