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The Atlantic Ocean will have less typhoons in 2012
On March 5, at the annual Charleston (US) hurricane conference, US National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read said there will not be a lot of heat-related typhoons thi…
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Huge cloud rolls in Brazil
The photo was taken last month, but it was recently published by the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) on the Earth Science blog Picture of the Day.
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Small dams threaten fish species on the Mekong River
According to the latest research published by US scientists, plans to build hydropower dams along small tributaries of the Mekong River could cause unmatchable harm to m…
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The snow fell back heavily, affecting France
The snow has returned to the northern and eastern cities of North France, especially Lille, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, which has been hit hard, almost paralyzed on M…
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Tourists 'threaten' Antarctica
Scientists are concerned that the Antarctic ice continent is suffering
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Sydney caught the biggest rain in 100 years
The Minister of New South Wales Duncan - Gay State Road said the city of Sydney on March 8 had suffered the heaviest rain in 100 years, causing the city to fall into cha…
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Hanoi faces the risk of flooding
Climate change (CC) makes rain and floods occur more frequently. Therefore, Hanoi needs to anticipate and have a plan to control the hazards during operation of the wate…
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Strong earthquake in northwest China
The magnitude 6 earthquake occurred in Lac Pho district (Lop), Hoa Dien district (Hotan), belonging to Xinjiang Uyghur ethnic group, at 6:50 am this morning in Beijing a…
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Losing 40% of the Mekong Delta if the sea level rises by one meter
One meter sea level rise, nearly 40% of the Mekong Delta area is submerged in water, which is the climate change scenario estimated for the end of this century, announce…
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Seabed survey in the earthquake area in Japan
According to AFP, on March 8, scientists deployed a seabed research program off Japan, where a strong earthquake struck the tsunami last year, to observe the disturbance…
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Japan still faces the risk of super-earthquakes
A year after the tsunami earthquake, Japanese people in Tokyo still have to live in a sense of anxiety when scientists in the country recently issued a warning about the…
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The strange effects of Japanese earthquakes
Japan's terrifying earthquake, followed by a tsunami on March 11, 2011 caused effects on both the globe, from the surface to the atmosphere, changing the gravitational p…
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Central America suffered from many natural disasters
The report of the United Nations Commission on Regional Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) announced on March 12 said that the number of natural disaster…
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The amount of radiation in the Pacific Ocean is 6 times higher
According to a survey by the Japan Marine Survey, published on March 12, the incident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in March 2011 caused the content of radioact…
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Potential threat from old nuclear plants
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned that 80% of the world's nuclear power plants have been operating for more than 20 years, a period of time when s…