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EARTH DAY 2025: TAKING ACTION NOW! Join us on April 22 to celebrate Earth Day and contribute (1) ______ a cleaner, greener planet! This year's theme, sustainable energy solutions, highlights the importance of reducing waste, conserving resources, and embracing renewable energy. We have organized (2) ______ activities such as a tree-planting campaign, community clean-up, and recycling workshops, (3) ______ to raise awareness and inspire positive change. Experts will also share insights on climate change and practical steps to protect the environment. Everyone is encouraged (4) ______ by making small but impactful changes - using reusable bags, conserving electricity, and reducing plastic waste. To join any event, register with your class representative by April 18. By working together, we can raise (5)______ and ensure a healthier planet for future generations. Let (6) _____ action and show our commitment to protecting nature. Together, we can create a sustainable future!

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Robots are useful for exploring and working in space. (18) ______. Such robots have usually looked like a box with wheels. Though these robots are useful, by their very nature they are unreliable, extremely expensive, and they break easily. Also, they cannot do very many tasks. Because of these problems, (19) ____. These new robots move like snakes, so they have been given the name "snakebots." The way a snake is shaped lets it get into very small spaces, like cracks in rocks. It can also push its way below the ground or climb up different kinds of objects, like high rocks and trees. (20) _____. A snakebot would be able to do these things, too, making it much more effective than regular robots with wheels, which easily get stuck or fall over. Since they can carry tools, snakebots would be able to work in space, as well. (21) ______. But how can such a robot shape be made? A snakebot is built like a chain made of about thirty parts, or modules. Each module is basically the same (22) _______. The large computer in the "head" of the snake makes all of the modules in a snakebot work together.

Japan is facing a serious worker shortage. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5%, an ageing population, and a declining birth rate, the country struggles to find enough workers for jobs such as taxi drivers, baristas, and waiters. This labor shortage is becoming a major challenge for Japan's economy, affecting businesses that rely on service workers. To help solve this issue, an inventor has created a unique solution. His idea not only gives disabled people better access to the workplace but also helps elderly people stay active as they age. It may even help reduce loneliness among those who find it difficult to leave their homes, improving their quality of life. At the Dawn Cafe in Tokyo, visitors are welcomed not by human staff, but by robot avatars. These robots have a friendly voice, two arms for gestures, and a smooth face inspired by Noh masks from traditional Japanese theatre. They are designed to create a warm and engaging experience for customers. The cafe has different robots for different tasks. One greets customers at the entrance, another takes their orders and chats with them, and a third one serves their drinks This system ensures a smooth and efficient service. Unlike other robot cafes in Japan, which use artificial intelligence (AI) for automation, Dawn Cafe works differently. Instead of operating on their own, these robots are controlled by people - called pilots - who may be in another part of Japan or even in another country. Using a phone, tablet, or eye-tracking technology, these pilots can communicate with customers and navigate the cafe's floorspace, creating meaningful interactions. The creator, Kentaro Yoshifuji, believes his invention is more than just a robot. He calls it a form of "teleportation", allowing people to interact with the world through a robotic body, no matter where they are.

Oil-producing countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and Russia, refused to sign up to a clause calling for the world to reduce its production of plastics. [I]. As clean energy technologies like electric vehicles gain traction worldwide, these economies are counting on continued and even increased plastic production to buffer them from the economic blow of reduced demand for oil. [II] The Conversation Weekly podcast sat down with Mark Miodowonik, professor of materials and society at UCL in the UK, to understand the history of plastic, how it's shaped our lives, and what can be done to make sure more plastic is recycled and less ends up polluting the planet. [III] [IV] In 1907 a chemist called Leo Bakerland invented a new type of rigid, synthetic plastic. He called it bakelite, and it was quickly seized upon by the modernism movement. "You can start mass producing items in a particular shape and they're all the same," explains Miodowonik, who leads the Plastic Waste Innovation Hub at UCL. First telephones, and then radios are manufactured using bakelite. "It's a huge revolution in the way people think about themselves, how they communicate with the world, who they are. Plastic becomes the material of this new era and everyone goes to town with it." Because plastic is a big business, the price comes down and it goes from a somewhat luxurious item to an everyday one. Suddenly everything is made of different types of plastic, including disposable packaging for fast food that people are encouraged to throw away. As a result of environmental activists raising the alarm in the 1980s and 1990s, governments and companies slowly started to at least pay lip service to plastic recycling. And these days, there has been a shift in our attitudes toward plastics as people are starting to realise the scale of plastic pollution. Few plastic manufacturers have faced consequences for their inaction, though these days, there seems to be more of a collective will to take action against them. In September 2024, the US federal government successfully sued Keurig, the company that makes those little plastic pods that produce one cup of coffee or tea, for claiming that those pods are recyclable when they're not. Keurig paid US $1.5 million (£1.2m) in penalties.