Knowing beans about … beans (The Record) Well-cooked beans are delicious, and they can't be beat as a thrifty source of rich nutrients. Packed with protein, vitamins, minerals and fiber, they play a starring role in cuisines from around the world. [News Source]

Are boys an endangered species? Half as many boys as girls are being born in some places around the world—and pollution is the prime suspect. [News Source]

Drink or Two a Day May Help Lungs (Health Scout) And another study supports vitamins for respiratory health. [News Source]

Drink or Two a Day May Help Lungs (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to your lungs, a couple of drinks a day may help keep the doctor away, researchers report.

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Anglo American CEO makes pitch for Pebble. The chief executive of Anglo American PLC, the world's second-largest mining company, has crisscrossed Alaska over the past two days, in her pitch addressing the wild salmon fisheries of Bristol Bay and transforming lands in Western Alaska into one of world's largest mines. [News Source]

Valeo’s Commitment Toward Enhanced Air Quality Inside the Cabin: New Fragrance Diffuser and Vitamin C Filter (FinanzNachrichten) TOKYO, October 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As people spend more and more time inside their car, the need for air purification has grown, and has become one of end-users key expectations in today's vehicles. [News Source]

Valeo’s Commitment Toward Enhanced Air Quality Inside the Cabin: New Fragrance Diffuser and Vitamin C Filter (FinanzNachrichten) TOKYO, October 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As people spend more and more time inside their car, the need for air purification has grown, and has become one of end-users key expectations in today's vehicles. [News Source]

You bite it, then it bites you. “You are what you eat,” the old saying goes. I’m wondering if the new saying could be, “You are what you eat and breathe”. What exactly is in the food we’re eating and what exactly are we taking into our bodies from our environment? [News Source]

Santa cruz votes to fight state’s moth spraying in court. In a split vote Tuesday, the Santa Cruz City Council decided to challenge the state's aerial spraying of the light brown apple on the basis the state failed to conduct an environmental review on the impact the pesticide will have on the people and the environment under the California Environmental Quality Act. [News Source]

Can’t live without the bugs. Humans tend to think of themselves as the planet's predominant life form, yet there is another altogether more spineless creature without which our existence would be impossible - invertebrates. [News Source]

Figures expose wide north-south health divide. People living in the north of England are likely to be unhealthier, poorer and live shorter lives than their counterparts in the south, according to Government figures released today. [News Source]

California fires continue to rage. Fires raged across Southern California on an epic scale for a third day Tuesday, with flames as high as 100 feet stoked by extremes of wind, heat, dryness and -- on the suburban frontier where some of the worst blazes roared -- the human impulse to live just a little farther out. [News Source]