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8 Ways You Are Killing The Environment That You Probably Didn’t Even Realize

Keurig coffee makers aren’t the only culprits here.

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By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

A man walks by the Arabian Sea coast piled with garbage, mostly plastic waste, in Mumbai, India, Monday, July 30, 2012.  Photo/ Rajanish Kakade/AP You know an invention has its drawbacks when even the guy who invented it says he's sorry he did so. That would be John Sylvan, inventor of the easy-to-use Keurig coffee maker — an invention

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What It’s Like Living Under Drones — In Victims’ Own Words

‘I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies.’

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By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Mohammed Saleh Tauiman was just 13 years old in 2014 when the Guardian newspaper gave him a camera so he could record life under the drones that flew over Marib province, Yemen. His father and teenage brother had been killed in a US drone attack in 2011 while they were herding the family's camels. Afterward, he lived in constant fear of what he

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