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Plastic-Eating Fungus Found in Amazon Brings New Hope
Plastic. It floods the oceans, strangles marine life and sullies our streets. When burnt, it spits out toxic chemicals into the atmosphere in gargantuan quantities, and its petrochemical construction means it doesn’t like to decompose. Yet it is a global addiction, as presently around 100 million tonnes (500,000 whopping blue whales) of the stuff is…
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Scientists Bomb The Galapagos Islands With Poisonous Biscuits
During the late 17th Century, a succession of Pacific plundering pirates parked at the shores of the Galapagos Islands, bringing Norwegian and black rats, which were to have a devastating effect on the island’s wildlife for years to come. For centuries these new inhabitants lorded over the islands, eating turtle eggs, sullying the place with…
