This example uses PHP and the Magpie RSS Parser to display the top 10 articles from EnvironmentalHealthNews.org's main RSS feed. MagpieRSS is an excellent choice because it is Open Source, easy to install, easy to use, and provides caching by default. Caching provides for better performance for your web server (and for ours), while still keeping the news current on your site.

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Environmental Health News
Is cadmium the new lead? Link reported between the ubiquitous metal and kids with learning disabilities. It’s a heavy metal. It’s linked to learning problems in school children. And every child is exposed. Sounds like lead? It’s cadmium. Children with higher cadmium levels are three times more likely to have learning disabilities and participate in special education, according to new research. Absorbed from the soil, cadmium is found in certain foods, particularly potatoes, grains, sunflower seeds and leafy greens, as well as tobacco. It also is used in some inexpensive children’s jewelry, prompting new voluntary industry standards last fall. Harvard's Robert Wright said the links to learning disabilities and special education were found at commonplace levels previously thought to be benign. Environmental Health News 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
BPA fosters diabetes-promoting changes. An ingredient in plastics and food-can linings coaxes cells from the pancreas to inappropriately secrete the hormone insulin, a finding that bolsters earlier links between type 2 diabetes and low-dose exposure to the chemical, bisphenol A. Science News 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
California auto recyclers brace for tightened regulations. Off the road, junk cars continue to pollute because of what some critics say is a decades-long failure by California to properly regulate the powerful automobile recycling industry. New York Times 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
Underwater time bombs. Nearly 70 years on, World War Two shipwrecks are a looming time bomb – for the environment and for the inhabitants of Micronesia's Chuuk Atoll. Islands Business 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
Verdict looms in world's biggest asbestos trial. A court in northern Italy will rule Monday in the unprecedented trial of a Swiss billionaire and a Belgian baron for over 3,000 alleged asbestos-related deaths. Expatica 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
Study: Oil-gas pollution tops expectations. Ozone-forming air pollution along the Colorado Front Range is up to twice the amount that government regulators estimated, a new study finds. Oil and gas development is the main source - a finding with broad implications for the industry across the Rocky Mountain region. Associated Press 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
Opposition rising against US Arctic drilling. Drilling in the Arctic waters of the US may become as contested an issue as the Keystone Pipeline XL in up-coming months. Scientists, congress members, and ordinary Americans have all come out in large numbers against the Obama Administration's leases for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea and the Chuckchi Sea. Mongabay 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
BP's blemished safety record is off-limits in trial, judge rules. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against BP over damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill won't be allowed to bring up the oil giant's spotty past safety record, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled Thursday. New Orleans Times-Picayune 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
Watchdog clears State Department of impropriety in Keystone pipeline project. The State Department’s inspector general has found no conflict of interest or improper political influence in the agency’s review of the disputed Keystone XL pipeline project. But the official said the department had not adequately weighed concerns about the route of the 1,700-mile pipeline. New York Times 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00
NRC approves first new nuclear plant in a generation. Regulators on Thursday approved plans to build the first new nuclear power plant in the US in more than 30 years, despite objections of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, who cited safety concerns stemming from Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster. Reuters 2012-02-10T09:00-05:00