Christmas causes global warming. People all over town are lavishing their homes, inside and out, with Christmas lights and electric-powered inflatables. Hasn't anybody heard about global warming? [News Source]

Can you reduce your carbon footprint with a vegan diet?. Why would someone who believes cheese has magical healing powers decide to take the dietary equivalent of a monk's vows? Well, evidence is mounting that meat-eating might be the next casualty in the war on climate change. [News Source]

Charbroilers in eateries face controls. The Bay Area's clean air board is breaking new ground in the growing effort to cut restaurant charbroiler smoke out of American's diet of air pollution. [News Source]

B vitamins vital before conception: study (Nutraingredients.com) 12/6/2007 - Mothers with low B vitamin levels before conceiving tend to have fatter male offspring at greater risk of high blood pressure, suggests new research with sheep. [News Source]

At last, a way of avoiding cancer . . . but there are one or two drawbacks. If you want to avoid cancer, live like a monk. That is the inescapable conclusion from research into one of the world’s most renowned monastic communities. [News Source]

Is your lipstick giving you cancer? A study has shown that a chemical found in lipstick and nail varnish, called butyl benzyl phthalate, or BBP, can interfere with the healthy development of breast tissue, and could trigger breast cancer. [News Source]

‘Vitamin Sea’ is proving disastrous for Andaman and Nicobar Islands (OneWorld South Asia) Port Blair: A chain of about 550 islands in the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is clothed in thick rainforests and home to excellent beaches and coral reefs. [News Source]