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Author: CBC Radio

Drivers see motorcyclists, but then their short-term memory can be overwritten by other things.

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Article: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-28-2019-plastic-tea-bag-particles-venus-was-habitable-driver-memory-fail-and-more-1.5298362/lethal-memory-fail-why-drivers-see-and-then-forget-motorcyclists-1.5298381
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Author: Trevor Nace

Every year for the next twenty years Ireland plans to plant 22 million trees, totaling 440 million trees planted as part of an overall strategy to combat climate change.

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Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/09/30/ireland-commits-to-plant-440-million-trees-to-help-tackle-climate-change/#32636d4f3ec8
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Author: Trevor Nace

NASA has some good news, the world is a greener place today than it was 20 years ago. What prompted the change? Well, it appears China and India can take the majority of the credit.

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Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says-earth-is-greener-today-than-20-years-ago-thanks-to-china-india/
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Author: Zane Small & Kaysha Brownlie

National's energy spokesperson is criticising the Government for not specifying exactly how much power bills will be reduced following its industry shake-up. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/national-mp-doubts-electricity-industry-tinkering-will-reduce-power-bills.html
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Author: Georgia Forrester

New Zealanders can sometimes be people of few words.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/116303220/the-sup-bro-chin-raise-how-to-understand-new-zealand-head-nods
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Author: Verity Johnson

OPINION: I don't mind Jeremy Clarkson. You'd be forgiven for writing him off as yet another middle-aged angry bore. After all, he has a deeply unappetising air of bellicose-and-bloated-British-bloke chic, favoured by men of a certain age everywhere who have a strange affinity for wearing jeans with a belt. 

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/116294855/jeremy-clarksons-paying-the-price-for-raising-a-feminist-daughter
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Author: Henry Cooke

ANALYSIS: NZ First voters would have preferred National to be in Government than Labour by a large margin, newly released survey results say.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/116301095/nz-first-voters-preferred-national-to-labour-at-2017-election-by-wide-margin
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The world’s very first Global Refugee Forum will launch in December in Geneva – bringing countries together to strengthen the response to the refugee crisis as the world sees the highest levels of displacement on record.  

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Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/global-refugee-crisis-nz-gearing-up-help-refugees-world-stage
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