In this edition of The Secret Ingredient, we talk with Marion Nestle about her latest book Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). She describes why it’s so difficult to find accurate information on soda consumption, how the industry got to where it is today, and what advocacy groups and consumers are doing to...

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Two osprey chicks are now live-streaming from their barge-nest in Port Lincoln. They will then be tracked after they fledge in December.

School leavers celebrations have been canned on Western Australia's Rottnest Island this year, with thousands of graduates expected to flock to the state's South West instead.

Port Beach's Coast pub and surf life saving rooms should be moved and some Rottnest Island holiday bungalows should be pushed back from the beach in the long term, a report into WA coastal erosion hotspots says.

First-time mayors and councillors who are the subject of minor misconduct complaints will get a three-month amnesty, Queensland's Office of the Independent Assessor says.

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Five years after her partner was murdered at work, a New South Wales woman says she is shattered by an amnesty for those who broke the laws he was trying to enforce.

Leaders show us their true colours during a crisis, and Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein — only in the job three months and following the popular Will Hodgman — is already giving clues as to how he will fare, writes Emily Baker.

The Prime Minister says north-west Tasmania is a classic example of the need for the Federal Government's coronavirus-tracking app, after he accuses a north-west aged care worker of not telling the truth about their movements and contacts.

Ospreys living around the coastal town of Jurien Bay, around 220 km north of Perth, have recently been given some newly renovated nests thanks to some recycled communication dishes.

Farmers along Australia's normally green east coast are reeling from the worst drought they have ever seen and face a tough summer if it doesn't rain in the next few months.

It comes as no surprise to researchers that densely-populated beaches in Australia are contaminated with microplastics but what about our remote coastal areas?

Thirteen volunteer conservation detection dogs have been trained to detect broad-shelled turtle nests in northern Victoria.

(United States Fifth Circuit) - Held that a defendant was not entitled to prevailing party attorney fees under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, enacted in 2016, because the plaintiff's voluntary dismissal of the case without prejudice meant no one had prevailed here. Affirmed the denial of fees.

(United States Ninth Circuit) - Revived claims that manufacturers of chocolate products and other firms in the industry aided and abetted child slave labor on Ivory Coast cocoa farms. The companies contended that the complaint sought an impermissible extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute. Reversing a dismissal order in relevant part, the Ninth Circuit held that the former child slaves must be allowed to amend their proposed class action complaint.

Amnesty advocates are working overtime to portray illegal migrants as heroic essential workers in the national campaign to contain China's coronavirus.

I largely gave up political blogging after November 8, 2016, when it became obvious that I have no idea what...

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When architect Richard Kirk was tapped to lead the design for the Mon Repos Turtle Centre, he knew that his team at the international architecture firm KIRK would need to tread lightly. The project’s coastal site, located in Bargara, Queensland, is home to one of the most significant seasonal nesting grounds for the loggerhead turtle. To minimize landscape impact, the architects designed the center with a prefabricated glulam timber frame that is wrapped in low-maintenance copper and wood to visually blend the building into the surroundings.[...]

Over the last few weeks and months there has been a lot of hype and buzz around the new opportunity called YourNetBiz. This article is a no nonsense YourNetBiz Review, and a way to establish an answer to the question: YourNetBiz, scam or money maker?

Altruism is alive and well. So is the desire to protect one’s self-image.

Trump's demotion of the inspector general who was going to monitor coronavirus spending marks his continued drive to put his own interests above the nation's.

Author and playwright A.E. Hotchner, known for his friendships with Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman, died Saturday at age 102.

Ernesto Cardenal, the poet and cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse throughout Latin America, died Sunday at a Managua hospital at 95.

In Hollywood Hills, "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk" cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema has shelled out $2.16 million for a ranch-style home.

Starring Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Rolling Stones and more, Global Citizen's "One World: Together at Home" broadcast raised $127 million for the W.H.O.

Rangers boss Steven Gerrard has admitted he is at an all-time low after seeing his side lose to Hamilton.

PEOPLE locked into high cost loans and rent-to-own schemes should be spared the extra fees charged if they fall behind with payments, says affordable provider Fair for You .

A SWAN was shot in the head four times while trying to protect her nest in a shocking case of animal cruelty at a park in Merseyside.

On October 2, 2019, Express.co.uk published an article headlined "Farage picks apart ‘totally dishonest' Boris speech with £1.8 trillion debt warning" that originally claimed Nigel Farage had "laid into the Prime Minister after Boris Johnson had reportedly claimed the Conservative government had ‘wiped out the national debt'" in a speech at the Conservative Party Conference."

THERE is a steadily growing groundswell of opinion in this country that refuses to diminish or be silenced. I hope I may claim to have been a pioneer.

THERE is a steadily growing groundswell of opinion in this country that refuses to diminish or be silenced. I hope I may claim to have been a pioneer.

Passagem da Terra pela trilha de resquícios do cometa Halley traz espetáculo de chuva de meteoros todos os anos; países da América do Sul estão entre os melhores posicionados para assistir a esse show noturno.

The Franklin Skeleton Crew is connecting small businesses with the community in an unconventional way.

While the birds are is still listed as endangered in Canada and Alberta, the population has experienced a comeback in recent years.

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