WebMD Medical News reports here: Drinking fruit or vegetable juice every other day may keep Alzheimer’s diseaseAlzheimer’s disease away. A new study shows people who drank fruit and vegetable juices more than three times a week were 76% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than those who drank juices less than once a week.
BBC News reports here: One of America’s top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change. In his first broadcast interview as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren told the BBC that the climate was changing much faster than predicted. "We are not talking anymore about what climate models say might happen in the future. "We are experiencing dangerous human disruption of the global climate and we’re going to experience more," Professor Holdren said.
He emphasised the seriousness of the melting Greenland ice cap, saying that without drastic action the world would experience more heatwaves, wild fires and floods. He added that if the current pace of change continued, a catastrophic sea level rise of 4m (13ft) this century was within the realm of possibility; much higher than previous forecasts.
The Associated Press reports here at Yahoo News: California will impose broad caps on its greenhouse-gas emissions under a landmark plan that marks a clear break with the federal government and which backers hope will become a national model.
Spiegel Online reports here: Some 3,500 barrels of mercury have been found in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden. There may be thousands more to be discovered. Experts say the sea is full of industrial waste — but nobody knows how much. Once mercury gets into the food chain, it tends to stay and can cause serious nerve, heart and reproduction problems in humans.
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