Don’t run from the sun’s Vitamin D benefits, experts say (Dallas Morning News) Here's a worry to cloud your carefree Fourth of July weekend fun: Is that sunblock you're slathering on to protect you from skin cancer actually making you prone to other diseases from a shortage of Vitamin D? [News Source]

‘Empowered’ heroes’ hard lessons now help others (CNN.com) When you think about health advice from Dr. Andrew Weil, you probably think of herbs and vitamins, a good diet, and plenty of exercise. [News Source]

Health Watch: Vitamin D Deficiency (FOX 5 News Atlanta) ATLANTA (MyFox Atlanta) – It's no secret that too much sunshine can put people at risk for cancer, but studies show that if people don't get enough sun it could make them sick too. The sun's rays produce a nutrient in the body known as Vitamin D. FOX's Joette Giovinco explains why so many aren't getting enough of the vital nutrient. Click on video for more information. [News Source]

Welcome to the Anthropocene. Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary. [News Source]

The dark side of dust. Those dust bunnies hiding under your toddler's bed are scarier than you might think. Once viewed as just a sign of unambitious housekeeping, dust has a dark side. [News Source]

Where’s the global food crisis taking us? In five years' time, we could be living in a world where millions are dying in famines with no food aid to hand, regular storms and droughts wipe out acres of crops, and skyrocketing food prices have created global political panic, food experts say. [News Source]

Study shows how broccoli fights cancer. Just a few more portions of broccoli each week may protect men from prostate cancer, British researchers reported on Wednesday. [News Source]

Broccoli helps prevent cancer: study. Eating broccoli once a week can reduce a man's chances of developing prostate cancer, and might even slow the tumour growth in sufferers, a new study suggests. [News Source]

Diet-sized snack packs turn off willpower. Grocery aisles are full of small "diet packs" of candy, advertised as a guilt-free way of helping you eat less. But researchers suspect they make people drop their guard and eat more. [News Source]

After 200 million years, all-male future spells doom for reptiles. The only survivors in the wild of an order of reptiles that scampered with dinosaurs could be wiped out because climate change will turn them all into males. [News Source]

G8: Japan showcases its environmental policy. Japan has one of the world’s most aggressive environmental policies, set both to meet 2012 emission reduction targets and to make the country -- which has no natural resources of its own -- less dependent on imports, according to experts meeting here. [News Source]

Harsh winters force Mongolian horsemen to abandon nomadic life. A succession of climactic disasters in the last 10 years has forced 500,000 of them abandon a nomadic lifestyle that has remained almost unchanged for centuries and to look instead for a new life in the cities. [News Source]