A study and accompanying map published in today’s Science illustrate, literally, the impact of human behavior on the world’s oceans.
Lead scientist Ben Halpern and his colleagues composed 17 models of the earth, each representing the damage caused by a specific human behavior like fishing or pollution, then merged them to show the cumulative global effect. [...]

Goodsearch is a Yahoo!-powered search engine that donates 1 cent to a user-designated charity for each Internet search performed.
One cent per search may not seem like a heckuva lot, but if 100 people—Wend readers, naturally—searched 10 times a day five days a week for a year, that’d be an extra $2,600 a year in donations. What could your favorite nonprofit do with [...]