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Beach and sunscreen equals no coral?

Oh dear, now another thing is assaulting coral – sunscreen! Since late May, various news sources have been picking up on a study done by the European Commission on sunscreen and tourists. With 78 million people visiting areas of coral reefs each year (according to the World Trade Organisation), about 4,000-6,000 tons of sunscreen gets [...]

Flying on algae

As everyone frets over rising oil prices affecting their driving freedom, or scrambling to find non carbon-based energy sources to power our cities and industries, the poor airline industry, with man’s lumbering metal birds of the sky, have been left white knuckled with fear (or maybe its just their passengers?) wondering how to fly without [...]

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