• Does obesity contribute to global warming?

• More black women are entering their reproductive years with diabetes.

• A new study on rectal cancer victims adds more evidence that blacks get less treatment and are more likely to die from cancer in the U.S.

• The Bush administration has decided to list polar bears as a "threatened" species without making any moves to improve the environmental factors that are causing the bears to be threatened or attempting to protect them in any way.

• To make matters worse for polar bears, they didn't make the top 10 smartest animals list.