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Amazonia, Brazil are considered the green lungs of the Earth. In this forest, felling trees always adheres to strict environmental regulations. At the Forest Exploitatio…
An American scientist studying the islands off South Sumatra, Indonesia, said there was clear evidence that the region could continue to experience larger earthquakes an…
Scientists on Thursday said the Earth's north pole is being swept away quickly from North America and headed towards Syberia. Until now, it is still impossible to explai…
The fact that an American scientist has just released a forecast that the risk of a new tsunami in Asia is worse than the 26 December 2004 raises the need to build a tsu…
Although the ozone layer defends life on Earth is shrinking, but it still takes another 60 years for the ozone layer to fully recover, returning as it was in 1980. Numbe…
The hot currents flowing from the Gulf of Mexico through the Atlantic Ocean to Europe are waning, leading to a situation where there is no supply of heat to the north. T…
In a recent report published in BioScience, scientists said that over-exploitation of freshwater fish is threatening the biodiversity of lakes and rivers on a global sca…
Arid and deserted with bacteria, land in the Atacama Desert (Chile), one of the oldest, driest deserts in the world, very similar to the gravel-red soil on Mars. This fi…
Five months after the tsunami in South Asia, scientists discovered one
In the afternoon of December 16 in Hanoi, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment published the 2005 Environmental Change Report. This is considered a
The World Bank (WB) on December 19 announced an agreement to buy polluted quotas of two Chinese companies worth $ 930 million. This is part of a plan for rich countries…
A miraculous mushroom managed to survive in the extremely salty waters of the Dead Sea. Its discovery could lead to new advances in gene technology, in order to create f…
Acidity is measured by a pH scale (logarithmic scale), where pH = 7 refers to neutral solutions. Normally pH = 5.6 (pH 5.6 is the pH of saturated CO2) is considered to b…
At the risk of natural disasters that can happen at any time, now, more and more families in Japan are prepared for that situation by always keeping food and vital tools…
Deforestation rates are showing slowing indicators because of the impact of afforestation as well as the development of natural forests according to the latest statistic…