COLUMBIA, Mo. (May 24, 2016) ― While many people view Memorial Day weekend as the unofficial start of the summer grilling season, they may not be aware of the dangers of eating food cooked on grills cleaned with wire-bristle brushes. A new study conducted at the University of Missouri School of Medicine identified more than […]
Along the West Coast, lingcod fish are top predators — voracious eaters that aren’t picky about where their next meal comes from. But lingcod in the Pacific Ocean used to be overfished, to the point where managers created protected areas for these fish and other depleted groundfish species, such as yelloweye and canary rockfish. Lingcod […]
A new series of ethnobotany films produced by filmmaker Sarah Betcher explores traditional Alaskan indigenous uses of wild plants for food, medicine and construction materials. The “Ties to Alaska’s Wild Plants” project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Betcher and principle investigator Steffi Ickert-Bond, the Herbarium curator at the University […]
JUNEAU – Monday, SB 199 was introduced by Senator Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage) to inform and educate Alaskans about the health effects of harmful food additives. Synthetic food dyes were first identified as potentially harmful in the 1970s. Since then, numerous dyes such as Green #1, Red #1, Red #2, and Violet #1 have been banned […]