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The story
Environment ministers from about a hundred countries are meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to try to finalise a declaration to combat pollution.
Challenges include banning the use of toxic lead in paint and limiting the amount of plastic that finds its way into the ocean.
Key words and phrases
Armageddon
a highly destructive event
pact
formal agreement
rampant
increasingly out of control
To do
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