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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

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He's creating a network of volunteer doctors who'll regularly visit families in poorer neighborhoods. According to Ode Magazine , The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranks Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5. Honduras 8.

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Plastic straws symbolize a global pollution crisis but Trump wants them to stay

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In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtles nose sparked outrage worldwide and countries and cities started banning them, starting with the Pacific Island nation Vanuatu and Seattle in 2018. Every year, the world produces more than 400 million tons of new plastic.

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