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‘The person who lives to be 1,000 years-old has already been born.’
Loneliness is the worst enemy of health and longevity This week, to a large and gripped audience, Professor Sarah Harper from the Oxford Institute of Ageing had just explained what societies of the future would look like. Then someone in the audience stood up and quoted gerontologist Aubrey de Grey:…
Study blames obesity epidemic on rising CO2 levels
The question of whether carbon dioxide should be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency has been a political football for the past decade. In 1998, the Clinton administration decided that it was, but in 2003, the Bush administration reversed this policy.…
Air pollution could become China’s biggest health threat, expert warns
Jonathan Watts, guardian.co.uk Air pollution will become the biggest health threat in China unless the government takes greater steps to monitor and publicise the dangers of smog, the country’s leading respiratory disease specialist warned this week. Lung cancer and cardiovascular illnesses are already rising and could get worse in the…
Male fruit flies rejected by females turn to alcohol
Much like males of our own species, male fruit flies, when spurned by females, drink to numb the pain of rejection. According to a study outlined in the New York Times, fruit flies who are unable to mate prefer food laced with alcohol to regular food. Humans may like to…
White rice linked to Type 2 diabetes, says study
PARIS — Health researchers said on Thursday they had found a troubling link between higher consumption of rice and Type 2 diabetes, a disease that in some countries is becoming an epidemic. Further work is need to probe the apparent association and diets that are notoriously high in sugar and…
Urban air pollution could kill 3.6 million people a year by 2050
Fiona Harvey, guardian.co.uk Urban air pollution is set to become the biggest environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades, overtaking even such mass killers as poor sanitation and a lack of clean drinking water, according to a new report. Both developed and developing countries will be hit, and…
Environmental crunch ‘worse than thought’: OECD
Pressures on Earth’s ecosystem are now so great that future generations could be doomed to falling living standards, the OECD said on Thursday in a report looking to the mid-century. “Providing for a further two billion people by 2050 and improving the living standards for all will challenge our ability…
‘Red Deer Cave people’ may be new species of human
By Ian Sample Stone age remains of people with a penchant for home-cooked venison could represent a new human evolutionary line The fossilised remains of stone age people recovered from two caves in south west China may belong to a new species of human that survived until around the dawn…
Military combines green and mean to fly drones on biofuels
By Damian Carrington– The US navy’s aggressive plan to replace a third of its huge fuel use with biofuels has now seen the unmanned aircraft, as well as ships and supersonic aircraft, trial the fuels The unmanned drones used by the US Navy to bomb its enemies without risking its…
Cannabis users find synthetic pot more harmful than natural weed
By Patrick Butler– Guardian/Mixmag survey results appear to back up concerns in the US media over risks associated with synthetic cannabis Synthetic cannabis is rated as more harmful than natural weed, and less likely to deliver pleasurable highs, according to one of the biggest surveys of current drug user experience…
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