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See All Key Ideas For the first time, cargo ships transporting goods around the world will be required to pay for their carbon emissions. The move follows an agreement by member states of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations agency that regulates global shipping.

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Mokele-mbembe is the Congo Basin’s bigfoot. Or that’s what it’s become, anyway — a cryptid. The myth was originally a kind of spiritual metaphor, but a confluence of European colonial exploration and early paleontology warped it into what it is today: a living dinosaur, hidden deep in the jungle. The post The Congo’s Dinosaur of Discord appeared first on New Lines Magazine.

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