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Waste from bauxite ore can filter water?
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Waste from bauxite ore can filter water?

Practicing aluminum extraction from bauxite ore generates a large amount of red mud, a hazardous waste. However, it is this sludge that can be used to treat industrial w…

December 16, 2018
Clean water is a big challenge for Asia
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Clean water is a big challenge for Asia

Population explosion, poor resource management, flood and drought are turning clean water into luxury for hundreds of millions of Asians.

December 16, 2018
Use tiger dogs
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Use tiger dogs

After being trained in Russia to specialize in sniffing to detect tigers, a professional dog was taken to Cambodia to seek traces of the lord of the forest in the reserv…

December 16, 2018
Buses run by garbage
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Buses run by garbage

Since 2010, clean buses will roll on the streets of Oslo (Norway), with biofuels produced from waste like mud, sewage and leftovers.

December 16, 2018
Carbon sinks are weakening
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Carbon sinks are weakening

Scientists at the International Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen last week said the balance effect of land and sea carbon sinks is gradually weakening.

December 16, 2018
Volcanic dust smoke like an atomic bomb
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Volcanic dust smoke like an atomic bomb

On March 22, 23, Redoubt volcano in Anchorage, Alaska state of America sprayed 6 times, creating a mushroom-shaped smoke column higher than 15 km, identical to the smoke…

December 16, 2018