By Sergey Baranov Contributing writer for Wake Up World A spoon of cactus juice a day keeps the doctor away. A new development in the psychiatric field deserves attention, but not because...
Category - Plants and Agriculture
Wake Up World’s articles on plants and agriculture, with a focus on issues and solutions surrounding ‘modern’ agricultural practices.
Ann Arbor Just Voted to Tell Cops to Stop Arresting People for Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, and More
September 25th, 2020 By Matt Agorist via TFTP Right now in Louisville, KY, two cops have been shot and residents are rioting because the state has an addiction to drugs. Despite the overwhelming...
Microplastics Found in Fruit and Vegetables for the First Time
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Here at Wake Up World, we’ve written before about the increasing threat to human health posed by microplastics, particularly when bottled water...
Insect Population Crash: Largest Ever Worldwide Study Reveals Dramatic Decline
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Research published in 2018 revealed that 41% of insect populations were in decline, with up to one third of all insect species at risk of extinction...
The Weed on My Plate: Learn to Love the Medicinal Plants You Can Forage Nearby
By Hilde Larsen Contributing writer for Wake Up World This is my favorite time of year. When all the medicinal fresh herbs, also called weed, pop up all around us. Some are looked at as beautiful...
Antibiotic Resistance: How Cannabis Can Help
By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World As I write this, the world is deep in a global crisis surrounding covid-19. Because this is an infection caused by a virus, not a bacteria, it cannot be...
(Not a) Surprise: Glyphosate-based Herbicides are Bad for Your Mental Health
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest Writer for Wake Up World Eat your veggies is no longer synonymous with health thanks to the increasingly documented deleterious health effects of chemical pesticides...
Probiotics Increase Honey Bees’ Immunity to Fatal Disease
January 8th, 2020 By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World Scientists from Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute in Ontario are exploring how probiotics affect the health of...
Protected Areas are Not Preventing Human Encroachment, Study Shows
November 29th, 2019 By Nikki Harper Staff Writer for Wake Up World Currently, one sixth of the globe’s land now falls within a designated protected area [1], in a bid to protect habitats...
Eating Cadavers in the Name of Science
October 24th, 2019 By Sergey Baranov Contributing writer for Wake Up World As human flesh is heading to your menu, you may want to take a moment to think about the degree of insanity we are...
Study Identifies Connections Between Pesticides and Declining Farmland Bird Populations
September 24th, 2019 By Amelia Harris Staff Writer for Wake Up World In recent years, bees have rightly garnered a lot of attention for their declining numbers due to pesticides and other...
Bee Deaths Continue Around the World as Pesticide Use and Toxicity Increases
August 26th, 2019 By Nikki Harper Contributing Writer for Wake Up World It has been more than twenty years since the first alarming reports of declining bee numbers began to surface, and thirteen...