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Commuters in Pain and Worsening Traffic Worldwide

Photo via Cory M. Greiner . IBM (yes, the IBM) recently released a global study of traffic, surveying over 8,000 adult drivers in 20 major cities. Perhaps the results are not that surprising – traffic is perceived by drivers as getting worse in the last three years. Thirty percent of those surveyed felt increased stress while 27% reported increased anger. Twenty nine percent reported that traffic harmed their performance in work or school, and 38% reported having cancelled a planned trip due to anticipated traffic. So the two key questions are, wh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mark Moffett, Adventures Among Ants

Image credit: Mark Moffett If we never grew up and stopped playing in the dirt, says Mark “Dr. Bugs” Moffett , we’d never lose our fascination with ants. Alas, most of us have lost touch with the insect friends of our childhood. Mark Moffett is one of the world’s leading explorers and a biologist with an acute ant fixation (he did, afterall, get his PhD under E. O. Wilson , the grandaddy of ant scientists). Moffett’s articles and remarkable photographs appear regularly in

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