Category: aluminum

Is This Ubiquitous Toxic Metal Lowering Men’s Sperm Counts?

Does aluminum, a toxic metal that has become so common it can found in things we eat and use everyday, have an impact on sperm count? Does it contribute to low sperm production among other ailments?  Falling sperm counts and rising infertility are phenomena that have been observed for decades in the developed world. Today,…


[PREMIERING on Sep 23 at 9 PM ET] Under the Skin | Documentary

“Under the Skin” brings a topic to the public’s attention that concerns us all: the safety of vaccinations. No medical measure interferes more intensively with the mechanisms of the immune system. At the same time, we live in a time when nearly half of the population suffers from allergies, autoimmune diseases, or other disorders of…


Avoiding the Toxic Effects of Aluminum

The human body is an electrochemical miracle. While we often think of it as a fleshy machine of sorts, it can be more likened to a constantly changing collection of chemicals and electrical signals that’s continuously rebuilding itself and responding to your mental state, food, air intake, physical activity, and environment. This biochemical landscape of…


Surging Power Prices Trigger Severe Metal Crisis: FT

Inventories of aluminum, copper, nickel, and zinc, four of the main contracts traded on the London Metal Exchange, have plunged by up to 70 percent over the past year, as record power prices in Europe hit production and the Ukraine war threatened output from Russia, the Financial Times reports. Traders and big consumers have tapped warehouses…


SoCal Companies Ordered to Pay $1.83 Billion Restitution in Aluminum Fraud

LOS ANGELES—A group of six Southern California businesses run by a fugitive Chinese billionaire was ordered on April 11 to pay $1.83 billion in restitution for scheming to evade payment of duties on imported aluminum products from China. The companies participated in the scheme to disguise aluminum extrusions to look like pallets, which weren’t subject…


Russia’s Move Into Luhansk and Donetsk Sends Nickel, Aluminum Prices Soaring

The prices of nickel and aluminum have spiked after Russia declared two pro-Russia areas in Ukraine as independent regions and moved troops into the country. Russia is a major producer of these two metals. Aluminum prices, which were trading around $3,270 per ton on Feb. 21, jumped 3.67 percent to around $3,390 per ton on…


Stocks of Russian Aluminum Giant Rusal Fall Amid Fears of Over Sanctions

Stocks of Russian aluminum giant Rusal fell on Monday as investors continue to monitor the ongoing tension along the border with Ukraine which could trigger sanctions against Russian entities. Rusal is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of low-carbon aluminum and accounted for roughly six percent of global aluminum supplies in 2019, estimated to be around 70 million…


Is Your Deodorant Raising Your Risk of Breast Cancer?

When U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law on Dec. 23, 1971, 50 years ago, he was confident that U.S. scientists could find a cure for what he described as “this dread disease.” But, five decades into America’s War on Cancer, cancer is still among the top three leading causes of…


Exclusive: Gosar Says Democrats ‘Want to Cripple And Destroy The Mining Process’

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) told The Epoch Times that several Democrats should be stripped of their committee assignments if Republicans regain control of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections. In November 2021, Gosar was censured and taken off committees after his Twitter account shared an anime video in which a cartoon version of the congressman…


A Sparkling Forest from Christmases Past Lights Up Downtown

MANITOWOC, Wis.—Standing in the softly falling snow, staring at the colorful and brightly lit Christmas display, Barbara Bundy-Jost understood anew—there was just something special about that tree. “It was just lit up like a sparkling forest,” she recalled. “We were on our way one Christmas Eve to visit my mother, who lived overlooking the lake…