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Turkey, lamb, pork, or chicken would also work in this recipe in place of beef. Prep: 15 minutes Total: 25 minutes Get the recipe. Credits to:Everyday Food Blog – MarthaStewart.com

photo via flickr There’s rising awareness about the hard place that the mighty bluefin tuna are in, but some people just haven’t gotten the message. Take Sinju Restaurant, in Portland’s Pearl District, which still has bluefin on the menu even though many environmental groups, including EDF and Seafood Watch, say to leave it off because [...]

Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta and Dr Shereen Zulfiqar Bhutta, both public health experts, lament the poor global response to Pakistan’s recent floods in a Comment in the medical journal The Lancet. Prof… Credits to:Health News from Medical News Today

People with an elevated resting heart rate, meaning a high pulse rate when resting, which persists over the long term is linked to a significant risk of death, caused by either heart disease or something else, say scientists from the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, after completing a study involving 9,193 [...]

Photos of the “mobile ethnic garden” via Christina Cho. Compared to learning a new language or traveling to another country, digging into a plate of Chinese greens or whipping up a spicy serving of salsa may seem like a superficial shortcut to cultural understanding. But food, and the rituals surrounding it, is often so close [...]

Image: joeshlabotnik, Flickr Back when the bright yellow flowers were still known as Rape or Oilseed rape, Brassica napus produced a bitter oil, unsuitable for human consumption and used mainly to lubricate machines. Canadian researchers bred an edible hybrid known as “Canadian Oilseed, Low-Acid” — or Canola, for short. Today, Canola oil claims to be [...]

Yevgenia Chirikova (L) and other environmentalists try to present Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with timber. Photo by Igor Tabakov / Moscow Times The fate of an urban forest has sparked turmoil between protesters and police in Moscow, where environmentalists say a road-construction proj… Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

Photos via Save The Bay Cargill, a Minnesota-based agribusiness goliath, is looking to spread its real estate ownership to San Francisco. However, its planned development of as many as 30,000 residents is aimed at an ecologically vital area of the bay — the Redwood City salt ponds. Cargill calls it an industrial wasteland, but agencies [...]

In 1998 2.2% of drug rehab patients were being treated for addiction to prescription pain relievers, in 2008 the percentage grew to 9.8%; more than a four-fold increase, according to a new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This sharp rise in rehab admissions linked to these types of medications [...]

Image: Greencolander, Flickr In April 2009, it became illegal to sell or apply pesticides for cosmetic lawncare in Ontario, Canada. It seems like a no-brainer risk versus benefits analysis: the benefit is …hmmm, just cosmetic…while the risks are real, documented, and pervasive. But somehow the allure of a green, weed-free lawn keeps conquering rationality. A [...]