Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining

Click Here to Read: Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining: The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals by By Catrin Einhorn and Maxine Joselow in The New York Times on July 10, 2026.

Piping Plover.  Image: Mathew Schwartz  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

For Years We Searched for Alzheimer’s in the Brain. Now, Researchers Suggest It May Begin Elsewhere

Click Here to Read: For Years We Searched for Alzheimer’s in the Brain. Now, Researchers Suggest It May Begin Elsewhere. A large-scale genetic study suggests some of the processes driving Alzheimer’s disease may begin in the lungs, gut, and blood, years before reaching the brain by Rakefet Tavor on the Epoch News website on  July 6, 2026.

An illustration of the neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease Image: BruceBlaus.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.