State health officials are adding species and meal limits to the fish consumption advisories on Lake Roosevelt and the Spokane River based on new fish tissue testing and evaluation, according to a state Department of Health announcement.
[News Source]Spot shortages and soaring prices for fertilizer, the most essential ingredient of modern agriculture, are one factor contributing to a rise in food prices that threatens to push tens of millions of poor people into malnutrition.
[News Source]Sockeye returns to the Fraser River this summer will be so poor that the federal government has asked 94 native bands in the watershed to come up with a catch-sharing plan that, for the first time, may involve “salmon rationing.”
[News Source]Australian scientists believe they may have discovered how to help people lose weight without cutting back on food. Researchers in Melbourne found that by manipulating fat cells in mice they were able to speed up metabolism.
[News Source]Ireland, which has seen an immigration surge in recent years, has a new foreigner on its shores, scientists said Monday: the greater white-toothed shrew.
[News Source]As General Electric Co. unveiled its plan for cleaning the Housatonic River, some residents have begun to question whether the cure is worse than the disease.
[News Source]The number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes has more than doubled in seven years, a California study found, a troubling trend that means health risks for both mothers and newborns.
[News Source]Children as young as four are developing livers so fatty that they resemble the French delicacy foie gras. Specialists meeting in Italy say rising obesity rates across the developed world are driving an increase in fatty liver.
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