Intent on documenting the effects of climate change, nature photographer James Balog ventured into ice-bound regions with 26 time-lapse cameras, which he programmed to shoot a frame every daylight hour for three years.

In May of 2006 I got my biggest health scare to date. I got my period (sorry, guys, if you are reading this!) and everything was “normal” (the usual PMS symptoms, cramps, heavy flow) but it didn’t stop when it was supposed to. Instead, I bled uncontrollably for three days until I was taken to an emergency room. I felt like I lost most of my blood and I looked like a mummy, pale and waxy yellow in color. I was diagnosed with uterine fibroids and put on an operating table. After the surgery I made a decision to research why I got ill and what I could do to prevent it in the future. Shockingly, I discovered that soy was probably a big contributor to my disease, the product so widely advertised to the vegetarians and consumed very often by me. “The truth shall set me free,” I thought, and started reading more and more and eventually stumbled upon the raw food diet.

Via Courtney Pool

For half a century, meat producers have fed antibiotics to farm animals to increase their growth and stave off infections. Now scientists have discovered that those drugs are sprouting up in unexpected places: Vegetables such as corn, potatoes and lettuce absorb antibiotics when grown in soil fertilized with livestock manure, according to tests conducted at the University of Minnesota.

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