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Climate change threatens the habitat of snow leopard
Research by the International Fund for Nature Protection (WWF) said that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase today, populations of snow leopard (Panthera un…
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China successfully saved the largest saltwater lake
According to satellite measurements published by Thanh Hai Provincial Institute of Meteorology on July 29, the area of Thanh Hai saltwater lake in this northwest provi…
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IPTD technology to treat dioxin in Da Nang airport
With this technology, soil and mud contaminated with dioxin (also known as Agent Orange) will be transferred into abutments, where experts will raise the temperature to…
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Inside the volcano 4,000 years old
The 4,000-year-old Thrihnukagigur volcano in Reykjavik (Iceland) just stopped working about 40 years ago. It is now considered a sleeping volcano because it can wake up…
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Detecting the stalactite block 'unique' in Phong Nha cave
In the morning of August 1, Mr. Le Thanh Loi, Director of Phong Nha - Ke Bang Eco-Cultural Tourism Center (Quang Binh) said that cave experts have discovered a block of…
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More than 100 people died from floods in Korea
The official Korean news agency KCNA said the total number of deaths due to the disaster has soared to 119. 31 deaths due to landslides and lightning strikes in heavy ra…
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Nature helps curb the global warming
The results of a group of American scientists published in the August 1 issue of Nature show that, during 1960-2010, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were ocean and Ab…
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Saola storms hit Taiwan, 6 people were killed
Typhoon Saola attacked Taiwan (China) with strong winds and heavy rain that killed six people and caused almost all of the island to stall operations on Thursday. Nearly…
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Antarctica was once warm
In the warm period 52 million years ago, tropical plants were like palm trees, each covering the Antarctic coast. The sediment on the continental shelf near Antarctica h…
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Climate change facilitates bacterial spread in Northern Europe
According to the latest announcement from the UK, Finland, Spain and the United States, climate change is the cause behind an abnormal explosion of a group of bacteria t…
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Dust from Asia stains North America
A study by the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), published in Science, proves that about half of microscopic dust particles in the North American atmosphere come from outside.
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Two storms hit China, hundreds of thousands of people evacuated
Strong winds and thunderstorms poured down the provinces of the east coast of China when two big storms hit the coast in the evening of August 2 and dawn on August 3, le…
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ICAO establishes CO2 emission standards for aircraft
On July 12, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) achieved an important step in an effort to set a greenhouse gas emission standard for global civil aviat…
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America: The most serious drought in nearly 60 years
Corn and soybean fields in Illinois and Iowa states are burned. Even the second-longest river in the Mississippi world dropped to a rare low.
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The first beach in Fukushima opened after the disaster
On July 16, in the jubilantly welcoming Sea Day - the national holiday of Japan, Iwaki city government, Fukushima Prefecture opened a beach to welcome the public.