Snowga in Quebec. (Instagram.com/caterine__roy) Yogis across the country are facing snowfall head on with "snowga," the trend that shows just how flurry-friendly a yoga practice can be. Outdoor yoga in the winter not only makes for a stunning photograph — see 50 beautiful snowga shots above for proof — but also it might have health benefits, particularly if performed early in the morning, as many of poses captured above were. (MORE: ) Spending time outside in natural morning sunlight sans...

Flint's human crisis is also affecting the Michigan city's dog population, as several canines have been poisoned by lead-tainted water. According to the Detroit Free Press, two dogs in the Flint area . Both cross-bred dogs are still alive, state veterinarian Dr. James Averill told the Free Press. One of the dogs is a pet, while the other is a stray, Averill also said. Glaydes Williamson holds up water from Flint and hair pulled from her drain, during the House...

It's bad enough that the residents of Flint, Michigan, were drinking water tainted with lead, putting a future generation in jeopardy. But now, a recent study also found they were paying higher rates for that lead-filled water than anyone else in the United States. The study, performed by Food and Water Watch, found Flint residents , as of Jan. 2015. The study also noted that figure would have been lower in Aug. 2015, after a judge ruled some rate increases...

As Beijing scambles to address their dangerous air pollution crisis, a new study by researchers at Duke University has found that their vexing smog problem could be increasing their citizens's risk of obesity.According to a published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, laboratory rats that breathed in Beijing's toxic air after three to eight weeks of exposurehad pronounced weight gain and showed "increased tissue inflammation." The scientists split up pregnant rats into different chambers,...

Residents of St. Joseph, Louisiana, believed their local government would do something about the murky, brownish-yellow water that was coming out of their faucets. Instead, residents were told that the water wasn't tainted, and the money they were promised to fix the problem was halted by red tape. In recent weeks, the drinking water , resident Garrett Boyte told the News Star. Boyle has lived in the northeastern Louisiana town of about 1,100 for a little over a year, and...

Three Florida pregnant women that recently traveled abroad have contracted the Zika virus, state officials announced this week. According to the Florida Department of Health, the addition of the women , however, only three cases are still exhibiting symptoms. due to a strong suspected link between an outbreak in Brazil and a spike in microcephaly, a condition that causes a newborn’s head to become smaller than anticipated and can cause developmental issues, according to the Center for Disease Control and...

Indian farmer Gomtiben lifts a basket loaded with cauliflowers in a field in Rasalpur village, India, on Jan. 26, 2016. According to a new study, food scarcity due to climate change will most effect populations in India and China. (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images) A modeling study recently published in The Lancet suggests that climate change's impact on our food system, and the resulting malnutrition, could cost an additional 500,000 lives per year by 2050. Researchers from the University of Oxford and...

Skin cancer is more complex than a mere band-aid cover up, as one woman's viral post shows. (iStock/Tonpicknick) "I hear too many people say that they feel better about how they look after they go to a tanning bed or after they bake in the sun for hours on end. Look at the pictures. This could be you," Facebook user Judy Cloud wrote in a post back in September. With it, she shared graphic images of her face, arms, chest...

A handful of residents in a southern Vermont town of 1,600 have been drinking tainted water, recent well tests near a former Chemfab plant revealed. The state tested 34 private wells in North Bennington, Vermont, and in 29 of those tests, high levels of the carcinogen perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA,were found in the water, according to Vermont Public Radio. The samples found a range of PFOA from 38 parts per trillion to 2,270 parts per trillion, all of which are...

A man wears a mask to protect himself from air pollution in Beijing on December 8, 2015. (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images) An unhealthy environment means unhealthy people. That's the latest message from the World Health Organization, which recently attributed nearly 1 in 4 global deaths to environmental risk factors, based on mortality data from 2012. These environmental harms include air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposures, UV radiation, noncommunicable diseases (mostly related to air pollution) and other effects of climate change....

Where do the world's happiest people live? And what makes for a happy life? Those are the central questions behind the World Happiness Report, an annual look at well-being worldwide published by an international team of economists and scientists each year since 2012. This time, a certain European country reclaimed its top spot as the world's best country for well-being, after losing out to another country on the continent in 2015. The report is part of the Sustainable Development Solutions...

It's a problem that goes way beyond Flint, Michigan: lead contamination has been found in the drinking water of nearly 2,000 water systems across the United States. The USA Today investigation discovered the problem in all 50 states. Lead levels that exceedfederal standards are in the water that flows through our faucets, affecting 6 million people across the country. Darius Simpson, an Eastern Michigan University student from Akron, Ohio, carries water he brought to donate for Flint residents during a...