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When they are rolling through the streets in strollers, toddlers are usually the ones throwing temper tantrums. Now it's their parents who are having the biggest fits. On Monday the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a stunning recall of some 1 million Maclaren strollers that were released...
For some species of tuna, the chase is becoming unsustainable. In September, the European Commission recommended that the E.U. support a temporary suspension of the global trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna, a majestic cousin of the yellowfin sold for tens of thousands of dollars a head for its coveted sashimi...
Tuna-ranching has proven to be a good way to do business - too good, some argue. In recent years, many boats have joined in the lucrative business of taking fish to ranches like these, sometimes netting more tuna than they're allowed to, or catching underage fish that have not...
The raw material is mostly skipjack, a small, unglamorous tuna that makes up about 60% of the world's tuna catch. Of the main commercial species, bluefin, yellowfin and bigeye tuna are primarily sold to the sashimi market; skipjack and albacore land in cans. Over half the skipjack caught each...
Demonstrators from around Indonesia amassed in central Jakarta on Sunday to show their support for the government's embattled anticorruption commission and two of its members who were recently detained by police. Hundreds turned up in the blistering heat to pressure the government to bring to justice those believed to...