This young woman turned her home into school for kids of tannery laborers, teaches them for free
The city of Kanpur in India is home to hundreds of leather tanneries. The laborers who work there live in deplorable conditions and cannot afford to send their children to school. Most of them consider it better to send their kids to work at the tanneries instead of sending them to school as they are able to fetch a minimum daily wage of Rupees 200-400 at work. This is what bothered 20-year-old Sana Parveen, who...
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Kangaroo rats thought to be extinct reappear after 30 years
The San Quintin kangaroo rats, declared extinct by the Mexican government in 1994, made a reappearance after 30 years, much to the delight of animal conservationists. Four of these small furry mammals were rediscovered along a narrow strip of Baja California’s coast by a team of researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum. ″There’s a feeling of anticipation and excitement when you check the memory card...
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This scientist created a single-use water bottle that fully decomposes in just 3 weeks
It is a well known fact that our land and marine ecosystems are literally choking on the plastic that we conveniently use and discard. Single-use plastic water bottles are undoubtedly one of the biggest environmental hazards that our planet faces today. Fortunately, a British scientist has developed a plastic-free, single-use water bottle that can decompose within three weeks. The Choose Water bottle, developed...
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