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Xi Jinping calls for advancing infrastructure construction

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also head of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs (CCFEA), on Tuesday stressed efforts to comprehensively strengthen i

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Peloton’s Android app hints at long-rumored rowing machine

Conducting an APK teardown of the latest version of the Peloton Android app, 9to5Google found evidence the company is preparing the software to support a rowing machine in the near future. The outlet

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Fieldays: New Zealand farmers displaying innovative tech

03:06 New Zealand has once again hosted the southern Hemisphere's largest agricultural show after the event was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19.The Fieldays is described as "the ultim

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PPE pollution on the rise, endangering wildlife and environment

01:13 Two new studies are warning that the proliferation of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE), is having an adverse impact on the environment and wildlife.The first study,

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Orca AI, which puts computer vision onto cargo ships, raises $13M Series A funding

Tel Aviv’s Orca AI, a computer vision startup that can be retrofitted to cargo ships and improve navigation and collision avoidance, has raised $13 million in a Series A funding, taking its total rais

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How to deal with climate change where people don't believe it's real?

01:47 Meet General Russel Honoré, Commanding General that came to New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and restored order. He retired from the U.S army in 2008 a

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Russian warships pass through Bosphorus Strait to Black Sea

Two Russian warships on Saturday passed through the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul towards the Black Sea and a detachment of 15 ships from the Russian Caspian Flotilla has also completed the transition

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Turkey detains 10 retired admirals over open letter

Turkey on Monday detained 10 retired admirals after a letter signed by more than 100 of them warned against a possible threat to a treaty governing the use of Turkey's key waterways.The Ankara chief

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Pandemic spikes pollution as face masks, gloves end up in waterways

Unscientific disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE), used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection, has led to an unprecedented rise in pollution in international waterways, harming ma

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Scuba divers helping to clean up Stockholm's canals

00:54 A group of volunteer scuba divers called "Clean Malaren" have been cleaning up Stockholm's canals for the past two years.They have found 12,000 kilograms of lead batteries, 320 s

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China has reserved infrastructure projects worth 800 billion yuan

VCG China's Ministry of Transport said on Thursday that a preliminary reserve of infrastructure projects worth a total investment of 800 billion yuan (113.45 billion U.S. dollars) ) has been c

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Controversial "fracking" has little environmental impact: Australian study

Researchers from Australia's peak scientific body have found that hydraulic fracturing can have little to no environmental impact. Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, is the process whe

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China pushes for work resumption, investment on transport projects

China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) has called for promoting effective investments in the sector, urging work resumption on major projects to meet the country's annual investment goal on the traffic

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Fiji launches national biodiversity action plan

Fijian Ministry of Waterways and Environment launched on Friday its five-year 2020-2025 national biodiversity action plan, setting out an ambitious vision on how the ministry work to in partnership w

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Fancy a dip? Dredging programme gives Jakarta’s polluted and smelly rivers a new lease of life

A group of children gathered on the banks of the Ciliwung river in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, staring into the water and casting nets to try to catch fish.

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Rising tourism sector challenges New Zealand's dirty dairy industry

​Tourism and dairy are New Zealand's two biggest export earners, but for how long can they develop in tandem?