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The world is experiencing a global sand crisis, wherein illegal sand trade have peaked the interests of mafia’s who takes advantage of high demand and low regulation of sand in many countries in Asia and Africa

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Cars are not only collecting a lot of personal data about the drivers and passengers, the car companies tend to share or sell your data to third parties without the user’s consent, knowledge or control, in addition to the risks of being hacked or tracked by unauthorized persons, claims the Mozilla Foundation who urges car companies to improve their privacy practices and consumers to be more aware of what they’re buying

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Car rental giant Herz sells off about 20,000 of their electric vehicles, including Teslas, will instead be investing in new gas-powered vehicles due to the high maintenance cost of EVs

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Sustainable energy not so sustainable after all, due to the difficulties and costs in recycling where the ~30 year lifespan of a solar panel doesn’t manage to offset the environmental costs when factoring in end of life recycling, the same, ironically, goes for wind turbines

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Fossil-fuel driven private jets of politicians heading for the Global warming conference in Dubai at the heart of the Arabian dessert in, frozen into place on the runway of Munich airport in Germany, questions arise how we are going to combat the ever increasing heat wave when the runway is all but a glacier from the biggest December snowstorm on record

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Woman poses in front of two mirrors in wedding dress, while the iPhone capturing the event makes it look like she held three different poses at once (hint: it was the panorama mode’s doing)

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