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Prevent precious animal slaughter
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Prevent precious animal slaughter

The total cost of domestic and foreign projects invested in the protection of rare and precious birds and animals in Central Truong Son is up to millions of USD. However…

December 16, 2018
Lightning protection rules for people
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Lightning protection rules for people

According to statistics, lightning strikes are the most dangerous, and for every 10 people hit by lightning, 8 people die. Lightning striking contact or horizontal cross…

December 16, 2018
Filter water contaminated with arsenic
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Filter water contaminated with arsenic

10 million people can get sick from drilled wells, especially the risk of arsenic contamination. This seemingly unsolvable problem can be solved by the traditional water…

December 16, 2018
Swallowing birds, low flying sad birds signal rain
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Swallowing birds, low flying sad birds signal rain

Sometimes we see flying urchins so low, even so low that it is almost close to the ground; sometimes we see a lot of dragonflies gathering into a group that only flies a…

December 16, 2018
Serious warnings about Ocean life
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Serious warnings about Ocean life

A group of researchers has released a warning: The global release of carbon dioxide has dramatically changed the ocean chemistry and threatened marine life. will be chan…

December 16, 2018
Coral reefs in Vietnam - Endangered
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Coral reefs in Vietnam - Endangered

Scientists have warned that up to nine-tenths of the more than 1,000 km2 of coral reefs in Vietnam are in danger of recovering while the marine environmental pollution i…

December 16, 2018
Tsunamis will appear more often
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Tsunamis will appear more often

Using radar on the satellites of the European Space Agency (ESA) to study waves on oceans, German scientists have confirmed large waves (tsunamis) with a height of 30 me…

December 16, 2018
Successful rescue of a gray-shanked douc langur
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Successful rescue of a gray-shanked douc langur

On the morning of July 11, the National Primate Rescue Center (Cuc Phuong National Park) received and successfully rescued a gray-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix cinerea)…

December 16, 2018
40,000 fishing boats will become ... coral?
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40,000 fishing boats will become ... coral?

There are 92,000 tractor ships in the whole country. According to the master plan of fisheries development until 2010 approved by the Government, by 2010, the whole coun…

December 16, 2018
Radon: The invisible danger
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Radon: The invisible danger

The article published in the Journal of Science Activities (Ministry of Science and Technology), in June 2006, clearly and fully explains the harmful effects of radioact…

December 16, 2018
What shaped pebbles?
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What shaped pebbles?

No two pebbles are exactly the same, but all of them seem to come to a single mathematical form - a circular object with a nearly uniform distribution of curves.

December 16, 2018
Tsunami in Indonesia killed 105 people
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Tsunami in Indonesia killed 105 people

A earthquake rocked the coast of Indonesia's southern island of Java, causing a tsunami that swept away many houses near the coast and killed at least 105 people, yester…

December 16, 2018
Tien Giang: big fire, burned 14 houses
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Tien Giang: big fire, burned 14 houses

About 13 hours on July 17, 2006, a big fire occurred in Quarter 5, Ward 2, My Tho City, Tien Giang Province. The fire completely destroyed 14 houses, but there was no hu…

December 16, 2018