Bass market. Never common, wild European sea bass are today one of the more overfished creatures in the Mediterranean. [News Source]

Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer. [News Source]

Vitamin D and the risk of developing breast cancer (News-Medical-Net) A connection between vitamin D level and the risk of developing breast cancer has been implicated for a long time, but its clinical relevance had not yet been proven. [News Source]

Sheen goes off Vitamin A effect on child deaths (The Telegraph) New Delhi, April 18: Vitamin A, long touted as a method to reduce child mortality, has no effect on deaths among children in India, the world’s largest trial has shown. [News Source]

Where food comes from.

In order to make informed choices, consumers need labels that list ingredients’ countries of origin.

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Mercury could be spreading. In the Shenandoah River valley, new research shows that toxic mercury contamination could be spreading beyond riverbanks and into the food chain of nearby land-based species. [News Source]

The solution to pollution is not eating spiders. Researchers from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., found high levels of mercury in the blood of land-feeding songbirds living near the South River, a tributary of the Shenandoah, they report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. [News Source]

Messages on health become No1 issue. A war on tobacco smoking and unhealthy eating and a massive shake-up in the way general practitioners are funded will be among the key ideas debated at this weekend's 2020 Summit. [News Source]

Ancient ginkgoes, redwoods threatened in China. Despite changing climates over the past 15 million years, human pressures will be the ultimate cause of the extinction of various plant species in China, some of which are over forty million years old. [News Source]

Hard to swallow. A report saying that certain dietary supplements may do more harm than good has prompted howls of outrage from the vitamin and health-food lobby. So who exactly should we believe? [News Source]

Honeybees on rebound in North Jersey. After a strange affliction known as colony collapse disorder devastated honeybee colonies nationwide and caused a 45 percent mortality rate in New Jersey a year ago, local beekeepers are reporting far fewer deaths. [News Source]

High levels of household chemicals found in pets. A study released Thursday shows that dogs and cats are carrying heavy burdens of many household chemicals - flame retardants, plasticizers and stain-resisting chemicals - in their blood and urine. [News Source]