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Film Looks at Plastics in the Oceans

Eight million metric tons of plastic wind up each year in the oceans, harming marine life and entering the food chain. A film crew traveled the globe to document the rubbish, producing a new documentary film called A Plastic Ocean that looks at the p

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By Ted Landphair Washington 09 August 2007 Every day, American consumers are offered a simple choice when they areby a store's cashier: paper or plastic? But as VOA's Ted Landphair explains in today's searching for solutions report, some communities

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You've probably seen pictures of Greek villages, where every house is painted bright white. The paint reflects the intense sunlight of the Mediterranean. And it works pretty well to keep the houses from heating up in the sun. But it doesn't actively

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Everyone who has eaten instant noodles before knows how it looks like. It is very easy to cook it instantly by putting the noodles into the boiling water and add in those MSG packets, together with your other ingredients like eggs or vegetables. Howe

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By Robert Raffaele Washington, DC 12 February 2008 Tests on several plastic baby bottles have found they emit very significant levels of a chemical linked to deadly illnesses in laboratory animals. That is according to a new report released by Americ

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