In the realm of consumer safety, minimum standards form a critical safety net that allows businesses and regulators alike with necessary guidelines. From our food and medicines, railroad tracks to bicycle helmets, crayons to cribs,…
How to read a CBD Certificate of Analysis
If you watched Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s Weed 5: The CBD Craze, you might have heard new language around quality standards as it relates to the CBD industry. Dr. Gupta explored the CBD industry today and…
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“We had an idea but nobody was ready for the impact. When we told Charlotte’s story, so many things changed. The mindset around cannabis started to change overnight.” That was more than six years ago. Charlotte Figi…
How to Make CBD Oil
Take a moment and think about your approach to health: would you consider yourself proactive? Curious? Dedicated? Especially in an age where information is readily available, and more people are conscious of their daily choices—from diet…
Meat-eating plants making a comeback in England
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch a carnivorous plant devouring an insectEndangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts of England in an attempt to reverse their decline. Botanists say the "fascinating…
Countries start work on new biodiversity framework
A Brazilian fireman near Porto Velho, Upper Amazon river basin (Image: Alamy) As wildfires rage across the Amazon, the rapid loss of nature has been the focus of a number of major reports this year,…
Achieving Global Consensus on How to Slow Down…
Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Conferences, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Regional Categories, Sustainability, TerraViva United Nations Combating Desertification and Drought India’s minister for…
New UN book club helps children deal with…
Every day brings news about wars, humanitarian crises, and the climate emergency. These subjects can be a source of fear and nightmares for children, and parents can struggle to find the best way to explain…
Climate change: Greenlands ice faces melting death sentence
Greenland's massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned. During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a…