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Human race came close to extinction long ago
Humanity's global population dropped down to only a few thousand individuals around 70,000 years ago and our species almost did not make it. Traumatic as that time was the event had major effects on our species.
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New plastic-eating bacteria could help save planet
A new strain of bacteria that can actually eat plastic has been discovered by scientists in Japan, reports CNN.
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UK team germinates critically endangered Japanese birch
UK scientists have successfully germinated seeds from the critically endangered Japanese Birch, a species that has just 21 known trees remaining.