US Postal Service workers deliver lots of packages for Amazon, especially on Sundays. You can imagine how they are mistreated: some "part time" workers have to go weeks without a day off. The speedup is so intense that following the official safety procedures is not feasible.

Three years of letting the copyright industry restrict Australian ISPs have not crushed forbidden sharing, so the copyright industry demands even more power.

The article is weak in that it gets distracted by questions of price. The usual authorized methods of distributing music, books and video over the internet are unjust -- they typically identify people and what works they obtain, they impose DRM, and/or make people accept a contract to be a jerk. I never accept anything through such channels, and I would not do so even if they paid me a high price to do it.

Stop Biodiversity Loss Or We Could Face Our Own Extinction, Warns UN.

Horseshoe crabs produce an enzyme that is used in medicine as a very sensitive test for presence of bacteria. But we are catching too many of them, and their numbers are declining.

Labour promises the UK a Green New Deal.