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Fake News Taints Facebook's Trending Topics
2016-10-15 19:35:00| TechNewsWorld
Facebook's Trending Topics section recently has carried a number of trending stories that were either "indisputably fake" or "profoundly inaccurate," according to a report this week. The news feed six weeks ago ran a false story claiming Fox News had fired anchor Megyn Kelly for being a closet liberal who supported Hillary Clinton. Facebook removed the story, apologized, and promised to do better.
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Plastic litter taints the sea surface, even in the Arctic
2015-10-22 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) show for the first time that marine litter can even be found at the sea surface of Arctic waters. Though it remains unclear how the litter made it so far north, it is likely to pose new problems for local marine life, the authors report on the online portal of the scientific journal Polar Biology. Plastic has already been reported from stomachs of resident seabirds and Greenland sharks....
Oil leak taints Lanzhou water supply
2014-04-13 06:55:12| Energy - Topix.net
An oil pipe leak is being blamed for excessive levels of the toxic chemical benzene in the tap water of one of China's key northern cities.
Oil leak taints Lanzhou water supply
2014-04-12 14:34:35| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
An oil pipe leak is being blamed for excessive levels of the toxic chemical benzene in the tap water of one of China's key northern cities.
Toxic Leak Taints North Carolina Coal Plants, And Regulators
2014-02-20 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A broken pipe funneled 30,000 tons of toxic coal ash into the Dan River in North Carolina earlier this month, turning it gray. The pipe has been plugged, but the spill has reignited a fight over storage of coal ash, and scrutiny of the state regulators responsible for monitoring it. The U.S. Justice Department began a criminal investigation into North Carolina's coal ash ponds and the state's environmental officials last week. The inquiry widened Wednesday, The Associated Press reports, as federal...
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