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 Still unprotected
300 of the world's rarest and most exotic species, including flying foxes in Comoros
Islands and yellow-eared parrots in the Colombian Andes and also creatures in India, are
completely unprotected, claim scientists.Reuters
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Plastic roads for hi-tech city
Plastic garbage in Bangalore will literally end up on its streets when authorities begin
laying over 500 km of road, using bitumen mixed with recycled plastic. Two tonnes of
plastic will be needed for 1 km of road. 
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"Cheeseburger Bill"
US House of Representatives passed the “Cheeseburger Bill” banning frivolous
lawsuits against food and non-alcoholic drink producers arising from obesity claims. The
vote came a day after a study said obesity was likely to become US's biggest
“preventable killer”, overtaking smoking.
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Lost bees
French beekeepers say about 90 billion of their bees have been killed in 10 years by a
pesticide, used on maize and sunflowers. It damages the bees' sense of direction and they
become lost.
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"Bad
farming is biggest global environmental threat"
Inefficient farming practices are helping to drive deforestation, pollution, ocean
degradation, and species loss and constitute the most serious environmental threat in the
world today, says a new book titled World Agriculture and the Environment.
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PC: Prolific Consumer—of water!
Your computer is one thirsty machine. A single 15-centimetre-long silicon wafer—the
building-block for a few dozen chips—requires 9 kilograms of liquid chemicals and
6000 litres of gases, as well as 8,610 liters of water.
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