'Killer' Slugs Advance on Sweden

Attention, residents of northern Sweden: slugs are coming to eat your gardens... but not very quickly.Non-natives slugs are wreaking slow, herbivorous havoc on scandinavian gardens as they head north. Normally the...

THE NON STOP EATING MONSTERS IN NORWAY !

Starting small , getting bigger and bigger , as long as 15 cm. I'm talking about the slug Arion lusitanicus , in Norway we call it Iberiaskogsnile. Origin Iberia. Not in the Norwegian fauna. Anyway...NOW WE HAVE...

A Greener Burning Man

For a supposedly utopian and zero-impact event, Burning Man generates a lot of trash, and creates quite a bit of noxious exhaust as various sculptures explode or emit flame. Last year, a subgroup formed to...

Iraq's Superbombs: Homegrown Ordinance?

This is what the Pentagon does not want the American people to even think about: that their armed forces can be held at bay by homegrown weapons, not by an international conspiracy of "evil". This makes sense, though: whatever country you are from, if an invading army...

For some in Washington, commuting's a slug-fest (Reuters)

" WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rush hour in Washington brings the slugs out into the light. Each workday, members of a unique breed of commuters known as "slugs" line up, sometimes at regular bus stops, sometimes at special areas. Chatting quietly, they wait for strangers to pick...

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