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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases. Every day, Synterex employees work with the hope of helping to get medicines to patients who need them to improve their quality of life.

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This invasive bug is terrorizing Pennsylvania growers (and it’s coming for your wine)

Grist

Lycorma delicatula , named for the lantern-shaped body of the adult that appears to glow under its dull wings, is used in traditional medicine in China, its native land. Its successful colonization there has been attributed to global warming , as its eggs have been able to survive increasingly warmer winter temperatures.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.

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Climate change is the one area of science Republicans tend to doubt

Grist

The people in the Pew study, by and large, accept the conclusions of medicine, of basic physics, of organic chemistry. Put aside Evangelicals, who often vote Republican and stereotypically express skepticism in a range of scientific conclusions. They haven’t heard Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity talking about physics,” Dunlap says.