The report published on Tuesday - part-funded by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - looked more at changes in the average weight and height of passengers in the past few decades than the highly-publicised fears over so-called "traveller's thrombosis".

BBC: Civil Aviation Authority report

In a report published last month on the SNH-funded Cairngorms Wildcat Project, it was estimated that 150 breeding pairs of wildcats survived in parts of the Highlands.

BBC: Scottish wildcat extinct within months, association says

The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, is the first report of a federally funded tracking survey of the mental health needs of about a thousand adult pre-hurricane residents of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.

NPR: Mental Issues Surge, Suicide Rates Flat Post-Katrina