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From Yahoo! News: Science News:
The St. Petersburg waterworks is putting six giant gastropods to work monitoring emissions from a sewage incinerator. The African snails, the size of some rats, are attached to sensors that will show them getting sick if they take in too much bad air.
Some environmentalists say the unusual move is just a publicity stunt aimed at distracting attention from unsafe practices at the incinerator. But the waterworks company, Vodokanal, says it's a serious attempt to improve control over what comes out of the smokestack.
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