The Pensacola News Journal notes: | Dick Snyder, director of the Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation at the University of West Florida, began conducting water samples May 3 on Pensacola Beach every Tuesday and Thursday because beach and health officials were only doing visual ass...

floridaoilspilllaw.com | The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official. … Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to put decontamination stations a...

NY Times | The Food and Drug Administration is seriously considering whether to approve the first genetically engineered animal that people would eat — salmon that can grow at twice the normal rate.   AquaBounty, developer of the AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon, would sell fish eggs ...

SilverBearCafe.com  | The Government is not letting you know everything about the Gulf Oil Spill. Benzene in incredible amounts is being released into the air. People are getting sick. UN Vans by the thousands are parked in secluded areas out of site from the public on AF Base in Florida just b...

rumormillnews.com | This is a sad day for Florida and I wish I did not have to send this warning out. But as a watchman on the wall I must let you know what is happening right now to you. The government has been lying to us about the oil spill in the gulf all along. It is a disaster that BP & t...

guardian.co.uk | Food prices are set to rise as much as 40% over the coming decade amid growing demand from emerging markets and for biofuel production, according to a United Nations report today which warns of rising hunger and food insecurity. Farm commodity prices have fallen from their record p...

ofgoatsandmen.blogspot.com | A new study done by Russian scientists suggests that Genetically Modified Food may cause long term sterility, that is, sterility in second and third generations... Genetically Modified Soy Linked To Sterility, Infant Mortality from Institute For Responsible Technolo...

TUESDAY, June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Cocaine abusers -- already at risk for an abnormal heartbeat, blood pressure problems, hallucinations, convulsions and stroke -- can add another potential health complication to the list: rotting flesh.   "If you are a user of cocaine, you should be aware t...

yahoonews | LONDON - Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008, the United Nations' cancer research agency said on Tuesday. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also said that almost 21.4 million new c...

.iol.co.za | London - Health authorities around the globe are beginning to suspect that the mysterious strain of pneumonia spreading from the Asia-Pacific may be a new microbe. Ten people have died and hundreds more are ill with symptoms. The disease has spread rapidly to Europe, the United State...

(NaturalNews) Chemical and agricultural giant DuPont has accused rival Monsanto of maintaining a seed monopoly, in a complaint filed with the U.S. Departments of Justice and Agriculture. "Monsanto has engaged in numerous practices that improperly seek to expand the scope of intellectual property ...

Rawstory | The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where 40 years down the line we, effectively, are ...

newscientist | The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported that stocks of Merck's Rotateq vaccine against rotavirus are contaminated with the pig viruses PCV1 and PCV2. But the agency has not advised doctors to stop using it as the pig viruses aren't known to cause disease in humans, and ...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Today Salem-News reports that a joint experiment by Russia’s National Association for Gene Security and the Institute of Ecological and Evolutional Problems has revealed that hamsters fed genetically modified (GM) foods produce grandchildren that are unable to produce fourth generati...

(AP)  Lettuce sold to retailers in 23 states and the District of Columbia has been recalled because of a possible link to 19 cases of E. coli. Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, announced on Thursday a recall of romaine lettuce after illnesses were reported in Michigan, Ohio and New York. The ...

Truthout.org | Media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting on April 24 that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least six people in Oregon, Washington and Idaho is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to ex...

Republicbroadcasting | Walmart has agreed to pay $27.6 million to settle a lawsuit over waste-handling violations in stores throughout the state — including improper disposal of hazardous waste in Orange County. It is one of the largest such settlements in U.S. history, said the San Diego County di...

WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - The United States still has 71 million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine that have not been used, but it is not yet time to throw them out, the federal government said on Monday.   States and other providers should hang on to the vaccine and continue to offer them ...

alternet.com | Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter. The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenom...

grist.org | What would happen if a USDA scientist discovered that one of the most commonly used pesticides on the planet with a reputation for having saved millions of tons of US soil from erosion was -- rather than a soil savior -- a soil killer? That, to quote a certain paranormal expert, would b...