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Nearly $ 500 billion
Environment

Nearly $ 500 billion

In an economic analysis published last week, the United Nations Convention on Desertification (UNCCD) warns that current land degradation causes $ 490 billion in losses…

December 16, 2018
Sichuan inspired more than 3,000 aftershocks
Environment

Sichuan inspired more than 3,000 aftershocks

The Center for Chinese Earthquake Monitoring Networks announced on the social network Weibo that, as of 10 April 23, their devices recorded 3,407 aftershocks in Sichuan.

December 16, 2018
Utilize waste cooking oil to produce electricity
Environment

Utilize waste cooking oil to produce electricity

2OC and Thames Water, two UK companies, have signed a £ 200 million contract to turn fat wastes that clog London City sewers into electricity to supply wastewater treatm…

December 16, 2018
Explain why the lake is red like blood
Environment

Explain why the lake is red like blood

Lake Natron is a saltwater lake located in northern Tanzania, northeast of Ngorongoro crater and near the Kenyan border. Nestled among volcanoes, Lake Natron is located…

December 16, 2018
Build houses from recycled plastic bottles
Environment

Build houses from recycled plastic bottles

Solar Revolution Pavilion, the name of the house, is 200m2 wide, 6m tall and uses solar energy. Workers put recycled plastic bottles into 1,600 plastic containers of veg…

December 16, 2018
Giant ice breaks 1,000km long in the Beaufort Sea
Environment

Giant ice breaks 1,000km long in the Beaufort Sea

Large currents, many of which are up to 500km long and 70km wide, have opened on frozen sea surfaces from Alaska to the Arctic islands of Canada as huge ice sheets break…

December 16, 2018
Find the answer to Antarctic paradox
Environment

Find the answer to Antarctic paradox

Weather experts, after trying to explain the phenomenon of expanding Antarctic ice area, found the cause - warming the Earth.

December 16, 2018
Japan built a tsunami barrier
Environment

Japan built a tsunami barrier

The fierce tsunami like 2011 will no longer be a nightmare for the people of the rising sun when Japan completes a 20m high wave wall, 230m stretching around Wakayama co…

December 16, 2018
Australia buys radar for weather research at sea
Environment

Australia buys radar for weather research at sea

On April 4, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) said Australia has purchased a double polarized radar installed on a new research sh…

December 16, 2018