A user found that his Motorola Droid X2 phone was transmitting lots of personal data to Motorola.

He could have prevented this if his phone allowed him to install a software load consisting of entirely free software.

A UK government report warns droughts will devastate food production there starting in ten years or so.

A study finds that tiny Antarctic krill, which are food for a large part of sea life, may die out in a few decades due to acidification of the ocean from the CO2 we are pumping out.

Many species of whales eat krill. We don't have to worry about whaling if the whales will starve.

The Great Barrier Reef's health was estimated as "poor" in 2011 due to heavy rain in the neighboring land.

The coral has declined by 50% since 1985.

Modern intensive agriculture can backfire in strange ways. Slugs thrive because their predators are wiped out, so people kill them with chemicals that we then have to ingest.

Now put this together with superweeds and the fact that we're running out of water for agriculture, and compare that with the increasing population and you wind up with a choice, soon, between birth control now and starvation in a decade.

A Swedish agency that wiretaps Russian communications for the NSA also conceals vital intelligence from the Swedish navy.