Palm oil and paper giant, Sinar Mas, has been told by Greenpeace that its commitment to sustainability is worthless, and, according to Bustar Maitar, a forest campaigner for the ecological group in Southeast Asia, some of the world’s best known brands are complicit in the company’s trashing of the rainforests.
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Maintaining an all-year-round tan by visiting a tanning salon could result skin cancer, according to some of America’s leading dermatologists. There is also a suspected link between the rise of the tanning salon and increased rates of melanoma in the general population. Since the early 1990s when artificial tanning facilities ...
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Supermarket giant, Woolworths, is facing four separate lawsuits, filed by women who claim they were injured whilst either working at, or shopping in its stores. One woman, a former employee who worked in the bakery, claims that she was injured whilst lifting boxes containing cookie dough. The three other women ...
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In a move to try and cut back on the amount of food that is thrown out by households in New Sout Wales, Minister for the Environment Frank Sartor has launched the ‘Love Food Hate Waste’ campaign. The new campaign is a collaboration between the state government, local councils and ...
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Advice on how to deal with bullies given by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has come under attack from experts but garnered support from a number of parents. Speaking on ABC Radio Mr. Rudd suggested that if the children involved in the bullying could not sort the situation out amongst themselves ...
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Scientists are warning that a giant iceberg set adrift from the Antarctic could affect the world’s weather systems. The huge chunk of ice measuring 2550 square kilometers was broken off of the Mertz Glacier Tongue earlier this month. Benoit Legresy, a French glaciologist who has been studying the Mertz Glacier ...
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Advocates of irreversible and potentially devastating climate change have been dealt a setback by scientists who admit that many of the figures used to back up the climate change theory may well be useless. Data collected from weather stations around the globe may simply be showing a change in local ...
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The Angiogenesis Foundation based in Massachusetts has announced that eating chocolate and drinking red wine can dramatically reduce the chance of people falling foul of cancer. William Li who is heading the research at the foundation told the Technology, Entertainment Design Conference that his team has been looking at foods ...
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Economists are predicting that the future of the humble local video store may be under threat, with losses estimated at $20 million this year, ahead of similar drops in 2009 as consumers turn to technology for their entertainment requirements.
It has been reported that death is drawing ever so closer for ...
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An Australian man who fell violently ill while travelling on a world cruise is furious after his credit card was automatically debited over $1200 by doctor aboard the ship.
Melbourne man, Antony Kazinoti, fell ill with what was believed to be food poisoning during a 26-day cruise from Dubai to Sydney ...
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