Thousands of abandoned telephone cables throughout the US are likely leaching toxic lead into American soil and waterways, an extensive new report by The Wall Street Journal has revealed. These leaded ...

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Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay is one of the sites where telephone cables were recently removed from. Ken Lund via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Miles of defunct, lead-covered telephone cables have long sat ...

Being tied to our smartphones for work and life means these devices have to be charged often. Their cables stay hanging from sockets all day until needed, but when we plug in our phones at home, the ...

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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An investigation has revealed that more than 2,000 lead-covered cables left behind by ...

I'm asking this because i'm about to move my computer a considerable distance (up a floor, through three rooms). I've noticed that when i run the phone line through something (like my UPS's port) or a ...