The Australian town of Bundanoon pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable ones

Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 8

An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.


A partial view of the lenga's forest

Nearly 70 percent of Argentine forests lost in a century

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Argentina has lost nearly 70 percent of its forests in a century, the Environmental Secretariat said at a UN conference on desertification.


Review: Google Voice has cool tricks but downsides (AP)

AT&T complains Google Voice blocks calls it can't (Update)

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. said Friday that Google Inc.'s Internet phone program gets an unfair advantage from blocking calls to rural communities where local carriers charge high connection fees.


Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace (AP)

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- He's hairy, his table manners are atrocious, and he wants to be your friend on Facebook.


Climate talks resume in Bangkok with deal in doubt (AP)

Climate talks resume in Bangkok with deal in doubt

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- Two years ago, governments from around the world came together on the island of Bali and agreed to urgently rein in the heat-trapping gases blamed for deadly heat waves, melting glaciers and rising ...


Facebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg's profile page

Affluent and urban drawn to online social networks: Nielsen

Technology / Internet

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Market-tracker Nielsen reported on Friday that the ranks of US online social network users continue to grow, with cyber communities tending to attract people who are affluent and urban.


New swine flu wave hits Mexico, closings unlikely (AP)

New swine flu wave hits Mexico, closings unlikely

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The next wave of swine flu has arrived, and Mexicans are bracing for an outbreak that may be even larger than the one here last spring that became a pandemic.



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