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Photo: Greg du Toit Water is one of the world’s most essential elements — and not just for humans, as this collection of images by photographer Greg du Toit proves. He spent months hiding by the lakes, rivers, and water holes of Africa to capture close-ups of wildlife quenching their thirst with the country’s water [...]

I have tried every brand of coconut water out there and this is by far my favorite one. It has fantastic coconut flavor and an appealing natural sweetness that the other brands lack. This particular brand is from a company by the name of Nirvana. The coconuts come from Thailand while most other commercially available [...]

Researchers presenting last week at an American Chemical Society meeting gave a shot in the arm to a weight-loss technique that’s been around forever.  In a study of middle-aged and older adults, they found that drinking two cups of water before a meal may speed weight loss when dieting. On the face of it, it’s [...]

Image credit: psyberartist/Flickr In the northern hemisphere, the winter of 2010 was notable for its unpredictability and extreme conditions. From East Coast blizzards to a devastating cold snap in Florida, cities struggled to to keep pace and entire ecosystems hovered on the brink of collapse. Now, as winter wears on in the Southern Hemisphere, Bolivia [...]

Photo via The Telegraph If being adorable was a crime, these liger cubs would clearly be in a great deal of trouble — but that’s not why they were seized recently by authorities in Taiwan. In Taipa’s “World Snake King Education Farm” a lion and a tiger were apparently allowed to produce offspring without first [...]

The BP Gulf spill (or whatever we decide to call it) has already done plenty of damage to wildlife, the local economy, and people’s livelihoods. Images of oiled birds and turtles, crude-covered marshlands, and shuttered businesses are now sadly commonplace. But what about that which we can’t see so clearly? After all, people are still [...]

More than 20 percent of deaths in a study of 12,000 Bangladeshis were attributable to arsenic exposure from contaminated drinking water, new research reports. The large 10-year study is the first to prospectively measure the relationship between individual exposure to arsenic and its associated mortality risk, the authors said. The data, collected by an international [...]

Just because you live in an urban setting without adequate yard space, or in an especially cold or inhospitable climate, doesn’t mean that you can’t maintain a delicious selection of fresh fruits and vegetables year round. source By setting up a proper aquaponic growing system, you can almost guarantee a healthy pay off. The costs [...]