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Bill Gates is helping India win its war on human waste

The program is one of Gates' favorites, he says, because it shows a government can make gigantic le…

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Mud at Woodstock 99 music festival was actually 's---': HBO documentary

The infamous Woodstock 99 music festival was a literal s---show, according to a new HBO documentary.

Connor Perrett   


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A Rio doctor had a blunt description of the water where Olympic athletes will be competing

According to the Times, government and International Olympic Committee officials say the waters in …

Scott Davis   


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A New Machine From Bill Gates Turns Poop Into Clean Water And Electricity

Gates has previously written about his aspirations to "reinvent the toilet," and offered a $400,000…

Rob Price   


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Bill Gates is obsessed with redesigning the world's toilets - and he just brought a container of poo onstage to prove it

The small plants, one of which is already on the ground in Dakar, Senegal, can serve between 5,000 …

Hilary Brueck   


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Climbers on Mount Everest will be ordered to buy poop bags and bring their waste back down with them, authorities say

To improve a smelly, unsightly situation, climbers scaling Mount Everest will be ordered to buy poo…

Joshua Zitser   


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Microplastics can carry vomiting viruses in fresh water for up to 3 days

People have been falling ill after swimming in fresh waters, UK researchers reported. They found mi…

Andrea Michelson   


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Chinese garlic is a threat to US national security and a 'severe public health concern,' senator says

Florida Senator Rick Scott urged the Department of Commerce to open an investigation into the secur…

Polly Thompson   


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4 signs that water is not safe for swimming, whether it's due to toxic algae or human waste

Avoid swimming in water that appears greenish or topped with scum, and steer clear of foul smells t…

Andrea Michelson   


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A trash-eating water drone is about to clean the busiest port in Europe

But it's the bigger Waste Shark, which Port Technology reports is about the size of a passenger car…

Clinton Nguyen   


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Navy Chief, Executive Officer Fired After Hazing Incident Of Sailors Forced To March On Pier Carrying Their Own Feces

On Oct. 15 with the ship's sewage system under maintenance and some toilets tagged with "do not use…

Paul Szoldra   


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Researchers are worried that a brain illness known as 'zombie deer' disease may start infecting humans

Prion illnesses are caused by the spread of misfolded proteins that cause other proteins to deform.…

Kevin Loria   


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Some experts believe climate change may increase the emergence of new animal-to-human transmitted diseases like COVID-19

Some experts think this increase might be related to an increase in deforestation and the subsequen…

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China is so desperate to win its war on drugs, it's started analyzing people's sewage for contaminated pee

Daniel Burgard, a chemistry professor at the University of Puget Sound in Washington state, told Bu…

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US health authorities are warning that 'zombie deer disease' is spreading - and some fear it could start infecting humans

Currently, the disease is found in animals like deer, elk, and moose. It can take up to two years b…

Kevin Loria   


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A 2016 Rio Olympics venue is full of human waste and teeming with viruses - here's what it looks like

The AP tested the water and found that Guanabara Bay, Copacabana beach, and Rodrigo de Freitas Lake…

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Cities could one day power homes and fuel cars with plastic, a giant step toward solving the pollution crisis

The UK's University of Chester is now using gasification, a process that involves heating plastic w…

Aria Bendix