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Get the same diseases – Dogs are a lot like humans: Both species like to eat too much! According to new research, as many as 1 out of 3 cancer deaths in both humans and dogs could be prevented by cutting calories.

Demian Dressler, who is known as the “dog cancer vet” because of his work in the study of canine cancer, recommends severely limiting snack foods for humans and dogs that contain ingredients rich in Omega-6, such as corn oil, vegetable oil and grain-fed red meat. Too much Omega-6 fatty acid can lead to inflammation, which creates an environment conducive to cancer in dogs and people.
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Insects are amazing, but sometimes they’re annoying (and even dangerous): First it was bedbugs, now it’s fire ants.

Ants can be formidable. Fire ants (they got the name “fire” because they sting) used to be found outdoors in warm climates, but now they’ve moved to the city. Once they’re in the city, they form massive supercolonies with thousands of queens and millions of workers. One researcher found a supercolony as long as a city block. City ants are also more aggressive and more likely to swarm.
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Float it, don’t toss it – Plastic can be a problem in many ways, including polluting the ocean. To solve the transportation problem AND the pollution problem, build a boat out of discarded plastic bottles.

Just such a boat–the “Plastiki”–made from over 12 thousand plastic bottles, completed a 4 month, 9,000 mile, voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. It followed the path of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a sea of trash about 5 times the size of the UK that floats just below the surface between California and Hawaii.
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In the wake of the oil spill catastrophe, researchers are searching harder than ever for energy alternatives. It turns out that Bacteria can help clean up the spill and it can also play a part in our use of solar energy in the future.
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