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| | | Obesity 'costing same as smoking.' The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as smoking or armed conflict and greater than both alcoholism and climate change, research has suggested. BBC | | Texas drilling brings health complaints, but little enforcement. In the last two years, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has received more than 400 complaints related to air quality that residents believed resulted from drilling in the Barnett and Eagle Ford shales. Texas Tribune, Texas | | 'Little Things Matter' exposes big threat to children's brains. A new seven-minute project, "Little Things Matter," draws on emerging scientific evidence that even mild exposures to common contaminants can derail normal brain development -- lowering IQs and raising risks of behavioral conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Huffington Post | | Juncker's plans dim hopes for greener policy. With the European economy stagnating and euroskepticism on the rise, officials here have been trying hard to cut the red tape unspooling from Brussels. But those efforts, critics say, are damaging the European Union's role as a leading environmental regulator. Wall Street Journal | | Antibodies vs bacteria: Making resistance futile. Jan Kemper's laboratory in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is part of a new front in the ancient war between man and microbe. The antibodies Kemper's cells produce are designed to attack bacteria, and thus back up conventional antibiotics, some of which are failing in the face of rising resistance. Economist | | The stoves used by millions in developing countries are a silent killer. As many as 4 million people in developing countries die every year from illnesses caused by smoke and other pollutants that fill their homes every time they fire up the stove to cook a meal for their families. Newsweek | | Scientists using social media to track air pollution in China. Tracking pollution in all but the biggest Chinese cities can be impossible since local governments don't release any data to the public. So researchers have come up with an innovative solution: If you can't follow the pollution itself, follow the complaints about it on social media. CBS News | | Greek dilemma: Is gold mine worth the ecological risk? A billion-dollar project in the Halkidiki peninsula could bring thousands of jobs to struggling Greeks. But the trade-off might be serious damage to flora and fauna in the tourist region. Christian Science Monitor | | Eurojust: Organized crime is damaging environment. A new report by Eurojust, the EU's judicial cooperation body, reveals that organized crime groups are behind cross-border environmental crime. At the same time, statistics show that environmental crime is seldom prosecuted by national authorities. Prague Post, Czech Republic | | Nuclear safety: The ultimate security blanket. Almost three decades after the catastrophe that wrecked it, a proper tomb for reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is nearing completion. Economist | | In battle against food waste, rethinking 'use by' labels. Food waste is a growing global concern, with 1.3 billion tons of food going to waste each year, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Aside from the morality of such loss, the economic and environmental implications are staggering. National Geographic News | | Half Yemen's children malnourished as hunger worsens strife. Nearly half the children in Yemen are suffering from malnutrition, the agriculture minister has said, as insurgencies, water scarcity and climate change exacerbate sectarian strife in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest state. Reuters | | Is China's GMO corn ban protecting consumers or protecting markets? As China closes its markets to many types of U.S. corn, questions arise about the costs and benefits of genetically modified food. The Guardian | | Fracking waste lawsuit waged. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Franklin County court claims Gov. John Kasich and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources illegally approved 23 fracking waste facilities. Coshocton Tribune, Ohio | | Oil and schools don't mix, enviro groups say. About 350 New York state schools lie within a mile of railroad tracks used by trains carrying volatile crude oil, a coalition of environmental and other advocacy groups said Thursday. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, New York | | Pennsylvania cites coke plant 6 times. The ArcelorMittal coke plant in Monessen has been cited six times for illegal emissions since reopening in April, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pennsylvania | | Texas oil company pleads guilty to dumping wastewater into Gulf. A Texas oil company has pleaded guilty to knowingly dumping oily wastewater into the Gulf near Plaquemines Parish for more than two years, saving it $1.5 million in disposal costs in the process, according to federal court documents. New Orleans WWL TV, Louisiana | | California farmers, EPA agree to pesticide restrictions. Federal and state agencies, rice growers and industry have created federally enforceable restrictions of the pesticide thiobencarb to protect threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead trout in California's Central Valley. Central Valley Business Times, California | | Debate churns as NOAA is set to open US waters to aquaculture. Giant cages float off the shores of Hawaii, housing hundreds of thousands of yellowtail snapper in the deep waters of the Pacific. They are a rare breed: the product of one of the few open-water fish farms in the United States. But they may not keep that status for long. 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