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Covid-19 is taking elevator anxiety to the next level. This Indian tech company has a solution
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This solar fridge is helping African entrepreneurs who are living off the grid
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How smart tech could help save the world’s honey bees
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US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here’s why it matters and how you can stop it
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Rising seas are turning Miami’s high ground into hot property
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Could rich people be the answer to the climate crisis?
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Uganda says 219 prisoners escape, some with guns and ammunition – Tek Portal
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Botswana says cyanobacteria caused elephant deaths in the hundreds – Tek Portal
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China’s BGI wins 1.5 million coronavirus test kit order from Ethiopia – Tek Portal
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Many hafu stars are celebrated in Japan. But for normal mixed-race people it can be a different story
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120,000-year-old footprints found in Saudi Arabia — and they might be human
Researchers discovered hundreds of fossilized footprints, which were exposed by sediment erosion, during a survey…
Drug trafficker facing death sentence escapes jail through sewage pipes
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In political turmoil and economic collapse, Lebanon could now be overwhelmed by Covid-19
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Taiwan offers a glimpse into a post Covid-19 world
On the streets of the island’s capital, Taipei, pedestrians appear more concerned with staying out…
