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Did News of the World Hack into Climate Scientists’ Emails?

2:39 pm in Business & Politics, england, media, newspapers by TreeHugger

news-world-email-hacking-climate.jpg Image: ssoosay via Flickr/CC BY The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling newspaper. We now know that the paper's reporters and editors illegally intercepted some 4,000 voice messages and emails of celebrities, crime victims, policemen, and others, and paid off top officials in the Scotland Yard to keep the whole thing quiet. Over at Cli...Read the full story on TreeHugger

UK Billionaire Pushes Arctic "Mega" Mine: Caribou, Whale & Seal Deaths Expected, "Habitat Will Be Lost"

9:52 am in arctic, Business & Politics, england, global warming causes, global warming effects by TreeHugger

Arctic wolf photo Image: purplegothicqueen via flickr Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man, is pushing to open an opencast iron ore "mega-mine" inside the Arctic Circle that will include a 150-kilometer railway and two new ports that will bring a ship in every 32 hours—up from the current rate of zero to ten ships a year....Read the full story on TreeHugger

British University Experiments With Online ‘Shaming’ of Non-Recyclers: Does It Work? Is It a Good Idea?

7:30 am in england, News, recycling, universities, waste by TreeHugger

recycling bins scottsdale arizona photo The right place for recycling. Photo: Dru Bloomfield / Creative Commons. If all your friends and peers could see what you were chucking into the trash, would you recycle more? Early reports from a dormitory experiment at England's Newcastle University suggest online "shaming" can be successful in increasing recycling rates, at least temporarily, but critics say the idea is too "Read the full story on TreeHugger