Fruta Planta and Reduce Weight Fruta Planta have been voluntarily recalled because they contain sibutramine, a medication that was taken off the market because of a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular events and strokes…

Eco-friendly ways to stop rats wreaking havoc form the new arsenal against these rodent pests that chomp through millions of tons of rice every year and contribute to the undernourishment of 570 million people in Asia and the Pacific…

Honeybees can learn to avoid nectar containing natural plant toxins but will eat it when there is no alternative, scientists at Newcastle University have found. This means that in areas dominated by these so called ‘toxic plants’ - such as almond or apple orchards - bees struggle to find an alternative food source and so are forced to eat toxic nectar…

Every hour, an enormous quantity and variety of manmade chemicals, having reached the end of their useful lifespan, flood into wastewater treatment plants. These large-scale processing facilities, however, are designed only to remove nutrients, turbidity and oxygen-depleting human waste, and not the multitude of chemicals put to residential, institutional, commercial and industrial use…

A Kansas State University professor is part of a national research team that discovered that streams and rivers produce three times more greenhouse gas emissions than estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…

University of Washington engineering students have won an international contest for their design to monitor water disinfection using the sun’s rays. The students will share a $40,000 prize from the Rockefeller Foundation and are now working with nonprofits to turn their concept into a reality…

Two Kansas State University researchers focusing on rice genetics are providing a better understanding of how pathogens take over a plant’s nutrients. Their research provides insight into ways of reducing crop losses or developing new avenues for medicinal research…

The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) has today published its assessment of the effects on mortality of long-term exposure to air pollution in the UK. Using 2008 data and some simplifying assumptions, the burden of human-made particulate matter (measured as PM2.51) on the mortality of the UK population, was estimated as a loss of 340,000 years of life in 2008…

Former tennis champion Martina Navratilova was hospitalized for pulmonary edema - fluid build-up in the lungs - while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, drawing attention to the high risk of acute mountain sickness (AMS) and high altitude pulmonary edema among climbers of high peaks…

A massive international collaboration has resulted in the publication of the DNA sequence for the strawberry, authors wrote in the journal Nature Genetics. They add that the research will lead to superior, hardier and tastier varieties of strawberries, as well as other related fruits. They sequenced a wild relative of the modern cultivated strawberry, called The Woodland Strawberry…