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E-waste in East and Southeast Asia jumps 63 percent in 5 years
EurekAlert! - 15 Jan 2017 07:00
(Terry Collins Assoc) Volumes of discarded electronics in East and Southeast Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast in both volume and per capita measures, new UN rese...
Gadget boom sees e-waste in Asia spike 63 per cent in 5 years
New Scientist - 15 Jan 2017 07:15
A boom in gadgets and a growing middle class has contributed to a spike in e-waste in East and South-East Asia, raising environmental concerns
Aging and Death Are the Evolutionary Price of Complexity
Singularity Hub - 15 Jan 2017 18:00
Life's ever-repeating cycles of birth and death are among the most fundamental principles of nature. An organism starts out as a single cell that grows and divides, develops into an embryo, matures and reaches adulthood,...