garbage
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Garbage-Fed Seagulls Are Spoiling America’s Lakes And Reservoirs With Their Poop
Where there are landfills there are seagulls. An estimated 1.4 million of these opportunistic feathered critters feed on these vast tracts of waste across North America. And as a new study from Duke University shows, the voluminous amounts of poop from these gulls is compromising the water-quality of nearby lakes and reservoirs.
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Hong Kong’s Beaches Are Suddenly Covered In Garbage And No One Knows Why
Visitors to Hong Kong’s beaches have taken to various social media channels to voice their outrage about the current state of the region’s beaches. Judging by the accompanying photos, they look more like garbage oases than relaxing paradises.
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Ultra-Thin Dongles Make It Easy To Add Biometric Security To Your Old Laptop
Using your fingerprint to verify your identity is not only more secure than a password, there’s also no complex string of characters for you to forget or repeatedly mistype. But if you’re also determined to use your ancient laptop until the day it dies, Synaptics’ will soon have an easy and unobtrusive way to upgrade…
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Mumbai’s Garbage Fire Is So Huge You Can See It From Space
Image Cache: Here is a trash fire. This new image posted by the NASA Earth Observatory shows the devastating smoke cloud coming off the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, India. According to the report, the landfill handles 3700 metric tonnes of waste ever day, accounting for about a third of the city’s garbage.