A small class-action lawsuit could stop the US opioid epidemic
10 May 2017
A lawsuit settlement in Canada against Purdue, the pharmaceutical giant behind Oxycontin, offers a legal strategy for felling a giant with a thousand cuts
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Borderwall as Architecture will polarise opinion on Trump's wall
10 May 2017
The US-Mexico border wall may be a dumb idea, but the alternatives proposed in a new academic 'manifesto' are too clever by half, says Bruce Sterling
Industry experts may replace dismissed EPA advisory scientists
9 May 2017
The Trump administration has dismissed several scientists from the advisory board of the US Environmental Protection Agency and may replace them with people from industry
Increased cancer rate in US linked to bad environment
8 May 2017
Around 39 in 100,000 cancer deaths could be avoided if US counties improved environment quality – a target that could be hampered by Trump's new legislation
Menopause-causing bait is curbing rat populations in New York
5 May 2017
Generations of childless rats are living to ripe old age as their overall numbers plummet thanks to new contraceptive baits
Would a North Korean space nuke really lay waste to the US?
3 May 2017
Warnings that North Korea could detonate a nuclear bomb in orbit to knock out US electrical infrastructure are far-fetched, says arms expert Jeffrey Lewis
