Day 80: Pesticides give you … obesity?

On the surface, obesity looks to be a self-inflicted wound. Too much food and not enough exercise, right?
Not so simple.
A new study in PLoS ONE adds heft to a link between pesticides and obesity that’s been emerging for the past several years. Soo Lim, of the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University College in Korea, [...]

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Day 39: The early buzz on Colony Collapse Disorder

Colony Collapse Disorder, the mysterious syndrome that causes the crash of whole colonies of honeybees, has plowed through the nation’s beekeeping operations for the past two years. While over-winter loss statistics won’t be in for another few weeks, early indications are the disorder hasn’t yet run its course.
Meanwhile, federal biologists are making slow, halting progress toward drawing [...]

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