Biofuels are produced from living organisms or from metabolic by-products (organic or food waste products). In order to be considered a biofuel the fuel must contain over 80 percent renewable materials. It is originally derived from the photosynthesis process and can therefore often be referred to as a solar energy source. There are many pros and cons to using biofuels as an energy source... 
One study estimates that in 2005 MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a particularly severe bacterial infection that is resistant to antibiotics, caused over 18,000 deaths in the United States--a mortality level greater than that of HIV/AIDS...
Electronic cigarettes are popping up in shopping malls, kiosks and online. You might not be lighting up tobacco, but are they a safer alternative to regular cigarettes? 
Time and again, the world has failed to prevent or halt the worst forms of human rights abuses — genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes. The Holocaust, the killing fields of Kampuchea, and the genocide in Rwanda are just a few examples where a host government has failed to protect its citizens...
Dibble, a Democrat, is proposing one of two marriage-equality bills in the state Senate and says now is as good a time as any to propose gay marriage legislation because there is also an economic aspect to the debate...
However, that technology is not yet commercially viable, and "absent greater incentives through government subsidies, regulatory policies, or shifting construction risks to vendors, 'clean coal' is likely to remain an elusive part of the future of electric generation," Todd Shipman, a credit analyst with Standard and Poor's, told the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment... 
These community-minded young people are urging President Barack Obama to do something about the two coal plants nearby that are making their families sick and causing global warming.
