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International Paper said on Monday that it had agreed to acquire Weyerhaeuser's packaging business for $6 billion to become North America's largest maker of corrugated boxes. The paper and packaging industry in North America and Europe has been consolidating and reducing production capacity in an effort to tackle soaring raw material costs and dwindling demand for paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

International Paper's quarterly profit slid 31 percent, hit by one-time charges and higher costs, and the company warned that weaker demand resulting from the global slowdown would hurt results for the rest of the year. Falling demand for its paper and packaging products in North America and declining prices for pulp in both North America and Europe will combine to lower fourth-quarter results, the company said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that sales of comics in North America, in print and in digital, have increased to $870 million for 2013 from $635 million in 2012.

The idea that primitive hunter-gatherers lived in harmony with the landscape has long been challenged by researchers, who say Stone Age humans in fact wiped out many animal species in places as varied as the mountains of New Zealand and the plains of North America. Now scientists are proposing a new arena of ancient depredation: the coast. In an article in Friday's issue of the journal Science, anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Oregon cite evidence of sometimes serious damage by early inhabitants along the coasts of the Aleutian Islands, New England, the Gulf of Mexico, South Africa and California's Channel Islands, where the researchers do fieldwork. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EVERY era needs an emblematic tycoon, and for the age of the Great Recession, you couldn't do better than Peter M. Brant. Never a figure of national renown, Mr. Brant has for years loomed large in that slender niche of American culture where vast wealth meets good taste and winter tans. In Savile Row suits and with plenty of alpha-male style, he spent the last decade quietly expanding his newsprint manufacturing empire, borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars and gobbling up mills until his company, White Birch, was the second-largest player in North America. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''TOY STORY 3'' EARNED NEARLY $227 MILLION in North America in its first two weekends. But the blockbuster has flopped in Russia, The Los Angeles Times reports, taking in only $4.8 million in its first 10 days. Why the deep freeze in a market where ''Shrek Forever After'' earned about $38 million over a comparable span? One answer, says the paper, may be that Russians are unfamiliar with the story. The first two ''Toy Story'' movies were released in the 1990s, before an explosion in theater growth. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the drop in prices of newsprint in North America as of June 1, 1996. Percentage of price drop since April 1996; Forecast that prices will drop in coming months.

Reports on a decline in the prices of North American wood pulp. Reasons behind the decline; Decline in the prices of some grades of printing papers.