Sunburn
Sunburn is an inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun. There are two types of ultraviolet rays, UVA and UVB. UVA rays penetrate the skin more de...
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Environmentalism: Even green-friendly media are daring to ask if higher temps are really just part of a natural cycle that could peak before all the forecast doom and gloom. Has Al Gore oversold ma...
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Kiev (dpa) - A teenage Ukrainian girl survived two days aboard an
inflatable air mattress after currents swept her out into the Black
Sea, the Ministry of Emergency Situatio...
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Munich (dpa) - With cherry trees and fields of rapeseed in full
bloom and the ground dry and dusty, farmers in Germany are worrying
about their crop. Midsummer has turned up...
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After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance _ so...
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Think slathering on the highest-number sunscreen at the beach or pool will spare you skin cancer and premature wrinkles? Probably not, if you're in the sun a lot. That's because you don't...
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An animal-rights worker who dumped the bodies of euthanized dogs and cats into a trash bin apologized in court Thursday, saying she threw out the carcasses because they stank.But Adria J. Hinkle de...
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Two fishermen whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico survived nearly two days and nights drifting at sea before one of them climbed the leg of an offshore oil platform.The men were rescued early...
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Watch your step when you pull off the road: That's the warning from Iowa environmental officials to help people avoid a burning, blistering itch that could last for months.Wild parsnip _ native to ...
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Parts of Australia could be 9 degrees Fahrenheit hotter and 80 percent drier by 2070 if global greenhouse gas emissions are not radically reduced, government data said Tuesday.The report by the Bur...
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