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90 Grams Of Fiber A Day?

Dr. Bellardo graduated from the Drexel University College of Medicine where she earned her MD. She is a practicing physician and she has some research citations. She consumes more fiber than most people, and for good reasons. Eating more fiber is beneficial: lowering cholesterol, improving blood pressure, improving diabetes risk, ... [continued]

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‘We’re trying to call on everybody that we can’: South Australia scrambles to fight its pulsating algal bloom

State considers its options to control Karenia mikimotoi, which has left beaches littered with dead seaweed and sealife

New satellite imagery of South Australia’s devastating algal bloom shows it shifting and surging around the coast, where it has killed tens of thousands of marine animals.

On the video, a light green smudge explodes into an angry, purplish red mass, indicating a high concentration of chlorophyll. It expands and contracts as the weather changes from January to August.

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Don’t let Donald Trump undermine your faith in the climate fight | Gina McCarthy

The president’s fossil-fuel obsession can’t stop global progress, writes the former Environmental Protection Agency head

Over the past decade, the United States has turned technologies into tools that strengthened our economy, delivered good-paying union jobs, cleaned up our air and water, conserved our precious natural resources, and saved families money all across our country. Yet now the country is choosing to cede that leadership, letting China dominate and control the clean-energy market across the world. It’s no surprise that people are scratching their heads, wondering what happened.

Our president is obsessed with fossil fuels. He wants to resuscitate what everyone knows is a dying coal sector while turning a blind eye to the health, environmental, and economic downsides of the climate crisis. Coupled with inconsistent threats of increased tariffs against virtually all our allies, he has isolated the US and amplified threats to global security.

Gina McCarthy is the managing co-chair of America Is All In, former White House national climate adviser and 13th US EPA administrator

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