Copyright ©2010 CBS Interactive Inc Entire Article Taken From:  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/11/health/main6573110.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines Do working moms mean fatter kids? A recent study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, says maybe. It may come as no surprise that researchers found that parents born in 1958 were 50 percent less likely to be fat children than were their own offspring. We all know kids are getting fatter by the generation. Yet the scientists' tentative conclusions are making some working moms and dads...


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Copyright ©2010 CBS Interactive Inc Entire Article Taken From:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/13/ftn/main6577858.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines The tourism industry along the Gulf Coast could unnecessarily suffer because of sensationalized media coverage of the oil spill, three Southern Republican governors said today on CBS' "Face the Nation." "The news coverage of this, of course, there's a lot of it. It's very sensational," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said. "It's the worst pictures that you can get. And it shows every hour on cable news and several...


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Copyright © 2010 - San Jose Mercury News The Entire Article Taken From: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15187813?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1 By DR. REESE HALTER Posted: 05/28/2010 11:24:43 PM PDT I've been covering the Gulf oil spill for more than a month. And recently, during a national television interview I said, "BP's Gulf oil spill is a global ecological disaster." In order to understand this, consider the following: A vast amount of oil one mile beneath the surface has bled since April 20 into the Gulf of Mexico. According to BP, it's about 200,000 gallons a day; researchers at Florida...


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Food, Inc. Trailer: I just watched this movie the other night, and it is really sad how much power the agriculture industry has over us.  Only we can change that though!!!  Please watch Food Inc., and have all of your friends watch it.  You just might eat differently after watching it....


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(C) 2010 Christian Science Monitor.  Entire Article retrieved from: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0422/Top-goal-of-Earth-Day-activities-get-energy-bill-passed. Forty years after Earth Day began, activist groups putting together speeches and rallies hope that this Earth Day will once again be a starting line for profound environmental change. Forty years ago, Earth Day activities marked the beginning of a period of seminal environmental reforms, including the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the passage of the Endangered Species Act, and the setting of fuel-economy...


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Entire text from The Ecologist, at:  http://www.theecologist.co.uk/News/news_analysis/409379/how_the_legal_system_is_preventing_environmental_justice.html Individuals and local campaign groups are being prevented from challenging environmental damage because of the potentially crippling cost of legal action Badnell's Pit, in Maidenhead, Berkshire, was a gravel quarry up until the late 1940s and for thirty years after was used as an unlicensed dump for industrial waste. Today it is slated to be the site of a new development of 400 homes, despite being classified by the Borough Council as 'toxic'. Asbestos...


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