Kleenex, one of the most popular brands of tissue products in the world, contributes to the destruction of ancient forests.
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HP, Lenovo and Dell are slipping on their environmental initiatives.
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Researchers at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall made a discovery worthy of a Frank Herbert novel: A massive, 4-foot-long reef worm that was chomping through their local corals.
According to This Is The West Country:
Staff eventually lured it out with fish scraps – but not before it bit through 20lb fishing line.
Curator Matt Slater [...]
Our global footprint now exceeds the world’s capacity to regenerate by about 30 per cent. If our demands on the planet continue at the same rate, by the mid-2030s we will need the equivalent of two planets to maintain our lifestyles. And this year’s report captures, for the first time, the impact of our consumption on the Earth’s water resources and our vulnerability to water scarcity in many areas.
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A group of evolutionary anthropologists will publish a paper in Current Biology tomorrow documenting evidence that the supposedly peaceful bonobos are as bloodthirsty as their male-dominated chimp counterparts.
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A team of researchers led by Spanish scientists has published their discovery of the complex molecule naphthalene in an interstellar star-forming cloud, indicating many prebiotic organic molecules necessary for life as we know it could have been present when our own solar system formed.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is running a story about a recent ruling from the Washington State Supreme Court, which decided that AT&T’s service agreement was not capable of waiving a customer’s right to file a lawsuit against the company.
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Telus screws customers on wireless broadband phones.
