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Ocean garbage attracts adventurers
There is no charm like Antarctica or Mount Everest, but the twice-Pacific Pacific trash mountain is the destination for adventurers this summer.
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400 people disappeared due to typhoons in Taiwan
Typhoon Morakot caused landslides in a mountain village in Taiwan yesterday, leaving 400 people missing. Local people estimate that there are 600 people buried.
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Earthquake strikes the Indian Ocean
US officials issued a tsunami alarm in the area after announcing a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that occurred in the Indian Ocean on August 10.
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Rare 'rainbow rainbow' in the sky
The sky of England suddenly brightened with a brilliant rainbow-colored smile.
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Boat creating clouds - Solution for global warming
The boats create clouds in Pacific waters will be an effective solution to overcome global warming.
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Asia attempts to build a tsunami warning system
Two major earthquakes in Asia on August 11 showed that regional countries still have to make great efforts to build effective emergency warning systems to avoid repeatin…
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Japan has a strong earthquake again
Early this morning (August 13), a strong earthquake shook central Japan, including Tokyo, just two days after the strong earthquake left one person dead and 120 injured.
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Organic carbon released from plants affects the air
The team, led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has discovered an unknown element in the process that gas produced by plants and other p…
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The threat from the Chinese incinerator
In a developing urban area in southeast China grows a massive incinerator, smells of stench and miles away and emits a lot of black smoke and toxic chemicals, ...
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Towards a green economy, green energy
Facing the global economic downturn, the risk of exhausting traditional energy sources and the threat of climate change today, the world is looking for new ways ...
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Tropical paradise beats with gasoline
The small island nation of Tuvalu in the South Pacific wants to stop using fossil fuels and produce electricity from renewable energy before 2020.
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New Zealand was pushed to Australia after an earthquake
South New Zealand has moved closer to the east coast of neighboring Australia just after the big earthquake last week - instead of waiting for hundreds of years of seism…
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Newton's apple tree is about to die
Thousands of ancient trees in England are dying due to environmental pollution, urban development and climate change.
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The terrible 'made in China' dust around the Earth
Japanese scientists first discovered the strange phenomenon: Clouds created by a giant dust storm and existed for so long that they circled more than one round of the ea…
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Why are raindrops different sizes?
By filming a falling raindrop, scientists in France have explained why raindrops have so many different sizes.