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It's been 5,500 years since horses were domesticated, according to researchers from Bristol and Exeter Universities. They were bred from wild animals by the Botai Culture...
Waste fish
30th June 2010
1m metric tonnes of fish caught in the North Sea is subsequently discarded, according to WWF-Germany – it amounts to at least one-third of the entire catch, though the EU says the waste could be as much as 60 per cent.
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