Superbugs Threatening More Children, 'Supermoms' Targeting Antibiotic Use On Farms

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Superbugs Threatening More Children, 'Supermoms' Targeting Antibiotic Use On Farms Everly Macario recalls the "primal shriek" her son released one fateful April morning in 2004. By the end of the day, Simon Sparrow, who had not yet turned 2, would succumb to an increasingly common infection called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Arctic Drilling Opponents Swarm The White House North Sea Gas Leak 'Kill' Underway Report Takes Stock Of Planet's Health 2 Giraffes Dead After Zoo Break-In Fight Against Malaria Faces Challenge BLOG POSTS Rana Florida: Creative Spaces: Where the Wild Things Should Be Ron L. Kagan made international headlines when he voluntarily decided to relocate the Detroit Zoo's elephants to a better home, a sanctuary in California. How exotic animals experience life in captivity is determined by the home that zoos give them. Here are some of the things that make this experience much better for animals. Daniel Kent: Should Information and Communications Technology Experts Have a Seat at the Table During the Rio 20 Summit? The Rio+20 Summit doesn't appear to have been updated to include a technology that was in its infancy in 1992 -- Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Carl Pope: It's About Greening All Jobs, Not Green Jobs Americans are all in the environmental crisis together, they are all in the economic crisis together, and the two crises have a common solution -- making every job a green job. Susanna Murley: William Paterson Wins! Sustainability Initiative Boosts School Pride This voting competition makes a strong argument that universities that invest in their sustainability programs get a lot of support from their students and alumni. Thane Kreiner: Green Social Entrepreneurship: A Long View Forty years ago next month, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi presciently told those gathered in Stockholm for the United Nations' first major conference on the environment that "poverty is the worst form of pollution."

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