Women: drink coffee, it is good for you!

And the effect was strongest in women: those who drank two to five cups of coffee a day were up to 26 per cent less likely to die than abstainers – mainly because of a lower risk of death from heart disease.

Greenpeace: Supermarkets harming ocean wildlife

The environmental group says the grocery stores, need to own up to their share of blame for “the collapse of the fish and seafood stocks.”

Ten ways for those last ten pounds

Using will power to control weight is like trying to hold your breath, he says. You can do it for a while, but then the brain takes over and demands you gulp.

Video: Watch the Beluga birth

Birth of Baby Beluga

12 year old Qila gave to her female calf at the Vancouver Aquarium Tuesday. This is a second generation born in captivity, Qila’s birth home was also the Vancouver Aquarium.

The Evolution of Amphibians Answered

The fossilized creature, known as Gerobatrachus hottoni, proves that some modern amphibians, frogs and salamanders evolved from an ancient amphibian group called temnospondyls, a Canadian-led team reports in the journal Nature.

When is food not food, when it’s junk food

Food we eat today often bears no resemblance to the real edible stuff that our grandparents and great-grandparents ate.

Fold your arms, it makes you smarter

The mere act of folding your arms increases perseverance and activates an unconscious desire to succeed, new research shows.

Greenpeace calls for Inquiry into Syncrude bird deaths

reenpeace is calling for an independent public inquiry into the deaths of about 500 ducks that landed on a Syncrude tailings pond last week.

The 100-Mile Diet Wins Book Prize

The memoir, cast in the popular form of a year-long experiment, documents the pair’s effort to eat nothing but locally grown food, for environmental reasons.