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The British say no to plastic bags
The campaign to limit the use of plastic to protect the environment initiated by UK retailers in 2007 has yielded quite satisfactory results.
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Method of assessing responsibility for carbon emissions among countries
Only a few months before senior leaders around the world met to come up with a climate change treaty, a research group led by Princeton University scientists developed i…
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26 people died from rain in Pakistan
Heavy rains in Pakistan's largest city in the past two days have left at least 26 people dead, officials said.
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America wants India to address climate change
To New Delhi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed her hope that the US and India could come up with a new plan to address climate change.
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Russia declared a state of emergency due to the hot sun
On July 20, authorities in southern Russia formally declared a state of emergency due to the abnormal hot sun that continued for several days.
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The world's largest solar power project in Sahara
With an investment of 400 billion euros, a German group plans to turn the Sahara desert in North Africa into a never-ending giant energy supply for Europe.
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Asian growth promotes climate change
Asia's rapid economic growth in recent years has contributed significantly to climate change and environmental pollution, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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Image of volcanic smoke column
Surrounded by clouds, shots of smoke, dust and steam rising from an active volcano are an impressive illustration of nature's power.
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Africa has enough land to feed the world
The world population continues to increase day by day but the shortage of food production land is unlikely, because humanity still has billions of hectares of unexploite…
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Wind speed is decreasing in the US
Reducing wind speed in many places in the United States can cause a lot of influence not only for the wind power industry, according to climate researchers in Iowa, USA.
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Shorten the time for soil cleaning by bio-plants
The Belarusian government is carrying out a pilot plan to plant biofuel crops to faster clean up the radioactive areas after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
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Clean up Hanoi lake by German technology
The water resources situation of many seriously polluted lakes in Hanoi can be solved by German technology.
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Ancient climate change: palm trees give way to spruce
For climatologists, part of the challenge to predict the future is to find out exactly what happened in the past periods of global climate change.
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Consolidating the hypothesis that the Tunguska explosion in 1908 was caused by comets
New Cornell University study, the United States is almost certain that the 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet falling into the atmosphere. The explosion is de…
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Sichuan earthquake again, thousands of houses damaged
A small earthquake on the morning of June 30 damaged thousands of homes in Sichuan Province (China).