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British consumers throw out a third of all food bought, worth some 10 billion pounds (12.7 million euros, 19.5 million dollars), a study showed Thursday.   The average household...

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There's a green lining to the real-estate cloud: Developers are dropping plans to build on some choice pieces of land and instead are selling it for such uses as public parks and nat...

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Mayor Gavin Newsom is competitive about many things, garbage included. When the city found out a few weeks ago that it was keeping 70 percent of its disposable waste out of local lan...

Take Action: Reduce E-waste: Recycle Your Cell Phones

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A saliva test could help speed up detection of human immmunodeficiency virus, or HIV, Canadian researchers say.   The McGill University Health Center study, published in PLoS Me...

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Europe is at the crossroads of nutritional health as obesity has reached alarming proportions within the continent. Key decision makers in this sector are looking for solutions that can alleviate the long-term harmful effects of this condition. Obesity is one of the prima...

Spurred by the belief that the market for fuel-efficient vehicles is about to take off, a slew of tiny car companies is springing up in Europe and the U.S. They are racing to produce...

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International aid agencies began distributing food in Myanmar’s commercial capital and main city, Yangon, on Tuesday but there was uncertainty that the assistance would reach p...

Take Action: Aid Burma Now!

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The death toll from Burma’s cyclone could exceed 100,000, the US embassy in Rangoon said on Wednesday. The grim estimate came as UN agencies expressed frustration that their ef...

Take Action: Aid Burma Now!

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In a sign that the economic downturn is hitting hard among Latino immigrants, more than three million of them stopped sending money to families in their home countries during the las...

Take Action: Latino Outreach Volunteer

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Reversing decades of tough-on-crime policies, including mandatory minimum prison sentences for some drug offenders, many cash-strapped states are embracing a view once dismissed as d...

Take Action: Stop Children From Going to Prison

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