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Australia gears up for the great koala count, using drones, droppings and dogs
By Yan Zhuang
MELBOURNE — One would think that koalas are easy to find — and count — because they are large, fluffy and mostly immobile since they are prone to sleep for about 20 hours a day. Not so.
“It’s the fact that they don’t move…
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Do you bury a dead computer?
By P.K. Balachandran
COLOMBO - Last week a news item reminded Sri Lankans of a major problem they might face in the coming years – the accumulation of e-waste, a dangerous environmental polluter.
In a significant development, a Sri…
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Dangers posed by plastic are hidden far beneath the ocean’s surface
By Tiffany May
There is more plastic embedded in the sea floor, 9.25 million to 15.87 million tons, than floating on the ocean’s surface, researchers in Australia have found, in what a scientist called the world’s first estimate.
The…
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