<![CDATA[Care2 News Network - Brain Food found by Cal M.]]> <![CDATA[FDA issues warning on Cipro, similar antibiotics]]> Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government's most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated.
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]]> <![CDATA[Wolverine advocates give notice of intent to sue]]> Nine environmental groups said Tuesday they plan to sue the federal government if wolverines aren't granted protection under the Endangered Species Act within 60 days.

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]]> <![CDATA[Wrangling Richmond's Wild]]> It's 7:30 p.m. on Sunday night. Metal mesh traps are set out with food trays filled with cut mackerel, canned tuna and chicken. The towel-draped "dining rooms" baited with pungent chow are strategically placed around a well-lit parking lot in hopes of
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]]> <![CDATA[NewsDaily: Britain rules out badger cull to fight TB in cattle]]> The British government said on Monday it would not permit badger culling to tackle tuberculosis (TB) in cattle,risking the anger of farmers.Instead,Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced fresh investment for vaccinations for cattle and badgers.Badger
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]]> <![CDATA[Suit seeks ban on oil companies disturbing wildlife]]> Two environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn new federal regulations that grants permission to oil companies working in the Chukchi Sea to disturb the polar bears and walrus that live there.
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]]> <![CDATA[New York Times On McCain Economics: No, You Can't]]> "The package of spending and tax cuts proposed by Senator John McCain is unlikely to achieve his goal of balancing the federal budget by 2013, economists and fiscal experts said Monday."
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]]> <![CDATA[Kids Okay After Being Left in Hot Van]]> Seven children and two dogs were left alone in a locked hot van. Their parents face child endangerment charges. Eyewitnesses say the parents were shopping in two stores near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana while their children, ages one to seven,
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]]> <![CDATA[Rare California condors threatened by huge fires]]> Naturalists feared on Tuesday for endangered California condors caught up in a massive two week-old blaze still sweeping through the scenic Big Sur area.
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]]> <![CDATA[Iran tests missiles amid tension with U.S., Israel]]> Iran test fired nine long- and medium-range missiles on Wednesday, state media said, including one which it has said could reach Israel and U.S. bases in the region
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]]> <![CDATA[Think it's garbage? Think again!]]> I never throw anything away. You never know what will come in handy for a craft project or fill a need around the house. Besides, recycling stuff is better than adding to the landfills and it's good for our environment!
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]]> <![CDATA[Researchers say popular fish contains potentially dangerous fatty acid combination]]> Farm-raised tilapia, one of the most highly consumed fish in America, has very low levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and, perhaps worse, very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medici
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]]> <![CDATA[Scrabble Moves To E-N-D Unapproved Facebook Game]]> At least when it comes to online Scrabble. Facebook users who play the classic word game on the site will soon have an approved version. An unauthorized version called Scrabulous has nearly a-half million daily users, despite efforts by Scrabble's owners
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]]> <![CDATA[Tiger Cub Bonds With Pittsburgh Zoo Handler's Dog]]> Visitors to the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium got a glimpse of one of its newest additions today; the Amur tiger cub made one of his first public appearances since he was born on Mother's Day.the cub formed an unlikely friendship with her Labrador
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]]> <![CDATA[AP: Financier Makes Bid For Steelers ----VIDEO]]> The shake up in the ownership of the Pittsburgh Steelers is taking a new twist tonight. A new report says the team could be under new ownership within the next few days.A deal could be reached within days to sell majority taking control away from Rooney
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]]> <![CDATA[Coal Plant Makes Way for Clean Power in Minnesota]]> Four-and-a-half years ago the Sierra Club scored a major victory in Minnesota when Club activists partnered with the Clean Energy Now! coalition and the Minneapolis Urban League to persuade Xcel Energy to invest in the Metro Emissions Reduction Project
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]]> <![CDATA[The truth about cats]]> Americans own more felines than canines. "Why then," writes USA WEEKEND pet expert Steve Dale, "don't we treat them as well?"
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]]> <![CDATA[Global warming will push Russia to destruction]]> Global warming will sow destruction across Russia and ex-Soviet states, a report said on Tuesday after the world's richest countries issued targets on harmful emissions that environmentalists criticized as too soft.
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]]> <![CDATA[African 'wall of trees' gets underway]]> Three years after it was first proposed, preparations for an African 'wall of trees' to slow down the southwards spread of the Sahara desert are finally getting underway.
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]]> <![CDATA[Oil billionaire Pickens puts his money on wind power]]> The legendary entrepreneur and philanthropist on Tuesday unveiled a new energy plan he says will decrease the United States' dependency on foreign oil by more than one-third and help shift American energy production toward renewable natural resources
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]]> <![CDATA[G-8 endorses halving global emissions by 2050]]> The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets.
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]]> <![CDATA[Census Of Marine Life Lists 122,500 Known Species, Over Halfway To Complete Inventory By Oct. 2010]]> The new World Register of Marine Species contains about 122,500 validated marine species names (experts having recognized and tidied up some 56,400 aliases -- 32% of all names reviewed).
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]]> <![CDATA[EU moves to cut back target on biofuel use]]> Signaling a major retrenchment, European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious target to raise Europe's use of biofuelsAt the same time, a new report for the British government cast fresh doubt on using fuels from crops in the
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]]> <![CDATA[Protesters Gearing Up For The Political Conventions]]> Every four years, liberal activists follow political power brokers and the world media to the Democratic and Republican party conventions, filling the streets with spirited protest against war, corporate domination and environmental destruction.
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]]> <![CDATA[Arctic Drilling Wouldn't Cool High Oil Prices]]> Drilling for oil beneath the pristine tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do little to ease world oil prices, the federal government's energy forecasters said in a new report issued in a week
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]]> <![CDATA[Deep Sea Fishing Devastates Ocean Ecosystems, Destroys Fish Stocks]]> "Industrial fisheries are now going thousands of miles, thousands of feet deep and catching things that live hundreds of years in the least protected place on Earth," said Elliott Norse, president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute.
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nutritional Origin of the Term "Red Neck" and Other Fascinating Historical Facts About Vitamin Deficiencies]]> There is a long and fascinating history of relationships between nutritional deficiencies and chronic disease. One of the most well known is probably scurvy -- a disease where your bones lose their rigidity due to a deficiency in vitamin C.
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]]> <![CDATA[Do We Need Sea Turtles?]]> In ways we will never fully appreciate, each lost species weakens us all, but the loss of sea turtles goes far deeper than the loss of a single thread in the fabric of life.
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]]> <![CDATA[Study: Gays in military don't undermine unit cohesion]]> Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[1968: The Democrats and the antiwar movement]]> Submitted by Michael C. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[Obama and McCain square off over economy]]> Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain clashed over how to boost the ailing U.S. economy on Monday, with Obama pushing for a new stimulus package to help homeowners and McCain pressing for low income taxes and incentives for small business.
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]]> <![CDATA[So goes Nigeria, so goes the rest of Africa]]> Many would recall the contentious elections in 2004 that brought Nigeria's current President Umaru Yar'Adua into office.
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]]> <![CDATA[Shifting Public Opinion On Offshore Oil Drilling]]> Submitted by Michael C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[U.S. coral reefs under threat, report finds]]> Half of U.S. coral reefs are in poor or fair condition, threatened by climate change and human activities like sports fishing, shipping and the release of untreated sewage, a U.S. government report said
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]]> <![CDATA[NYC to spend billions to cut greenhouse gases]]> New York City will spend $2.3 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions from municipal buildings and operations by 30 percent in 30 years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said
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]]> <![CDATA[Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says]]>

Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface, a new study says. "What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take


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]]> <![CDATA[Whales Help Pioneer New Health Treatments]]> There are literally millions of medical compounds out there that could cure diseases, help improve treatment and even protect us from some types of bacteria. Dr David Kagan, Sunstroke author, reports in Doomwatch Legacy.
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]]> <![CDATA[Nature Reserves Attract Humans, But At A Cost To Biodiversity]]> Rather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley
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]]> <![CDATA[Weak horses sent to Mexico to be slaughtered]]> MESQUITE – The traders at Dallas County's half-filled horse auction knew the fate of their scrawny thoroughbreds even before they herded them into the ring.
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]]> <![CDATA[Bear-ly Saved]]>
Officials say a 375-pound male black bear was seen roaming a residential neighborhood
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]]> <![CDATA[Weak economy may be Wal-Mart’s strong suit]]> Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[Whale and dolphin strandings show big increase in Cornwall]]> 4 weeks after the major stranding that led to the death of 26 dolphins in Cornwall, new research sheds new light on the extent of the problems facing Cornwall's marine mammals.
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]]> <![CDATA[A flying tiger : India relaunches its effort to save tigers]]> ON JUNE 30th a doped five-year-old tiger flew 300km by helicopter, from a small Indian national park replete with tigers, Ranthambore, to a bigger park, Sariska, which had none. This was the first attempt to relocate wild tigers in India since the 1930s
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]]> <![CDATA[ALERT ALERT GREECE ANIMALS ASAP]]> Foreword:
Incredibly, we find ourselves once again accused of illegally transporting stray dogs from Greece to other EU countries, this time by the Ministry of Agriculture itself. Initially, the shock at reading the press release below (translated into
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]]> <![CDATA[Sariska tiger out of enclosure, roams free]]> Danger now literally lurks behind every moving bush at the Sariska Tiger Reserve. The four-year-old male tiger that made history on May 28 after its relocation from Ranthambore was released from its enclosure on Sunday and is now the master of all it
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]]> <![CDATA[One Wall, Two Very Different Views - Life on Either Side of the Great Divide: Part Two]]> An exploration by a correspondent for The Guardian of lives on both sides of the West Bank barrier built by Israel, which means security for some and to others is means of undoing their future - part two: the Palestinian village of Jayyus.
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]]> <![CDATA[One wall, two very different views - life on either side of the great divide: part one]]> An exploration by a correspondent for The Guardian of lives on both sides of the West Bank barrier built by Israel, which means security for some and to others is means of undoing their future - part one: Israeli settler, Alfe Menashe.
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]]> <![CDATA[Eastern Pacific Fishing Nations Fail to Conserve Tuna]]> Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[Zara the lion cub and Arnie the house cat make a purrfect couple]]> With whiskers entwined and their furry bodies snuggled close, Zara and Arnie make a purrfect couple.
Unfortunately, the best friends are set for a rude awakening. Very soon Zara the lion cub will have to say goodbye to her male companion Arnie
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]]> <![CDATA[Flooding, After the Deluge, and the Politics of Toxic Mold]]> Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> <![CDATA[Stop Adopting Wild Animals As Pets!! Sign Petition!!]]> I need your help so we can stop stupid people from adopting wild animals. It kills the animal because they might be fed the wrong food or being abused and tortured .
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