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Photo: Alex Pasternack The mangrove tree is essential to tropical zones around the world, helping to nourish local ecosystems with fish and plants, protect shorelines and soak up carbon. And now it’s vanishing at an alarming rate. Since 1980, the planet has lost up to a third of them. But in the West African country [...]

Interested in working on your inner and outer thighs? This exercise will help! This great exercise is called a lateral lunge and it focuses on completing a lunge in the frontal plane. At first this may not seem so significant, but if you look at how our bodies move you will find that for 90% [...]

Middle aged people who are regular heavy smokers have over double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and various forms of dementia later in life, Finnish researchers report in an article published today in the peer-reviewed medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine. The authors explain that smoking, and in this case specifically heavy smoking (at [...]

Photo: AFP In places throughout the Amazon, some stretches of the region’s most important rivers and tributaries have dried up almost entirely, reducing the normally flowing waterways to a vast plain of broken clay and mud. For some people who live and work in this part of the world, life has come to a screeching [...]

It’s common knowledge that calcium plays an important role in maintaining strong, healthy bones later in life. For women who have passed their reproductive years, this fact is especially true. But according to new research from Italy, there may be another important reason for postmenopausal women to keep an eye on their calcium levels. Italian [...]

This breakfast-for-dinner dish can be made in 30 minutes. Prep: 20 minutes Total: 30 minutes Get the recipe. Credits to:Everyday Food Blog – MarthaStewart.com

For those folks who love the taste of seafood but hate all the trouble of fishing it from the ocean, one recently unveiled invention in China has a cruelly-convenient solution — a vending machine that dispenses crabs, guaranteed to be alive or your next meal is free! That’s right, for around $1.50 you can now [...]

One of the best benefits of losing weight, working out, and getting in shape, is the greater self-confidence many people gain.�� However, in order to achieve this improved self-confidence you must change your personal feedback. What this means is that although you won’t attain the body you want overnight you do need to give yourself [...]

Bitter taste receptors we have in our mouths were found to also exist in our lungs – what researchers discovered about these functioning receptors in the smooth muscle of the bronchus in the lungs may transform future treatment for asthma and obstructive lung diseases, scientists wrote in an article published in Nature Medicine. When bitter [...]

Sea life in Papua New Gunea; Photo via Angell Williams In a move that is highly controversial among environmentalists, scientists and indigenous people, Papua New Guinea has given the go-ahead for a deep sea mineral mine that will extract materials such as copper, zinc and gold. This is a great case-in-point for Stephen’s recent post [...]