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Use leaves for scrub to clean medical waste
Researchers at Sultan Qaboos University (Kingdom of Oman) proposed the production of dates (the palm tree species) not to throw away leaves but to treat wastewater, espe…
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Snowfall causes traffic disturbance in Japan
The cold air pouring into Japan this winter continues to create a heavy snowfall in the coastal areas of the Pacific and some provinces that look to the Japanese sea on…
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Weather forecast may be wrong for urban
Heat from buildings, cars, and factories in big cities can cause temperatures in areas thousands of kilometers away to increase or decrease compared to the forecast of m…
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Australia mobilizes troops to participate in flood fighting
On January 29, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the country's state of Queensland would receive support from the military to deal with a serious flood crisis.
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Spring can come earlier with North American forests, increasing CO2 absorption
In the next century green plants in the United States may have new spring leaves up to 17 days earlier than before global temperatures began to rise, according to a new…
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More than half a million people evacuated if Mount Fuji erupted
According to a recent calculation, an eruption of Mount Fuji (Fuji) in Japan may cause about 567,000 people to leave their homes.
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Signs of life in the Antarctic underground lake
The first signs of life were discovered in water samples taken from the lake under the Antarctic thick ice surface. Green light emitting cells that are dyed with DNA sen…
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Dive to the bottom of the coldest lake in the winter
At noon in the local time, the underwater research team of the Russian Geographic Society in the Republic of Tatarstan dived to the bottom of Labynkyr lake in Yakutia, i…
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Saline intrusion deep in the dry season of 2013
According to the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research, the dry season in 2013, the flow on the Mekong River is 30-45% less than the average of many years.
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Amazon's freshwater ecosystem is sensitive to environmental degradation
River, lake and wetland ecosystems - covering about one fifth of the Amazon basin - are increasingly degraded by deforestation, pollution, construction of dams and water…
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The new island suddenly rises in Germany
A new 140,000-square-foot island just emerged from the water in the North Sea, more than 16 miles (25 km) from the coast of Schleswig Holstein - Germany.
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There has been a new model of the mysterious Vostok lake
Russian experts claim to have obtained the latest samples from the lake area deep below 3.2 km of Antarctica.
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The warming earth will wake up the volcano
When the volcano erupts, the impact on the climate is huge, one of the risks is that the amount of sulfur dioxide gas sprayed on the stratosphere increases.
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Japan: Snow storms cause hundreds of flights to be canceled
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) today said heavy snowfall in the country has hindered traffic in many provinces, including Tokyo.
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2012 is one of the 10 hottest years
The study of the two leading scientific agencies in the US shows that 2012 is among the hottest 10 years since 1880.