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'Super volcano' formed faster than expected
The largest volcanoes on Earth, or 'super volcanoes', take only a few hundred years to form and erupt, not hundreds of thousands of years as scientists previously though…
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Radiation reduction with corn cobs
Researchers from the sunrise country found that activated carbon, produced from corn cobs, is effective in absorbing radioactive substances, heavy metals and pesticides.…
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Another US city banned plastic bags
City Council of Los Angeles, California (USA) has issued a decree banning the use of plastic packaging in supermarkets, 75,000 stores in the city must switch from plasti…
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Italy shook again because of the earthquake
China Daily quoted the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcano (INGV) as saying that the earthquake occurred at 21h20 local time in the area that had been shaken by…
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Song Tranh hydropower is prone to landslides and landslides
In the afternoon of May 7, Professor Cao Dinh Trieu, expert of the Institute of Geophysics, published the results of the study on geological hazards at Song Tranh 2 hydr…
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Automatic submerged measurement
Sitting at the office still knows the flooded situation to handle it promptly. This is the advantage of automatic monitoring system SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data A…
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The US participates in dioxin treatment at Da Nang airport
On the morning of May 8, Vietnamese and American experts began to consider the technical design of heat-absorbing technology to treat poisoning at Da Nang airport, a hot…
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IAEA enhances the ability to analyze nuclear materials
On May 7, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it could meet the increasingly complex challenges of nuclear verification for at least the next 30 years. Th…
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6 most obvious consequences of climate change
Climate change sea makes flowers bloom earlier, the breeding season of animals changes and military activities increase sharply in the Arctic. The global average tempera…
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Nuclear power against climate change
After the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima I power plant in Japan, Germany and many developed countries planned to phase out nuclear power plants. The Japanese government…
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Japan built a tsunami break at the Onagawa factory
Japan has recently built a section of tsunami-proof levees at Northeast Electric Power Company's Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant (TEP) in Miyagi Prefecture, Northeastern Jap…
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Spending 1 billion USD to build the world's largest CO2 collection room
Mongstad Technology Center, Norway's largest and most advanced carbon dioxide gas collection laboratory, was inaugurated on Monday. Located at a refinery on the west coa…
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Garbage in the Pacific increased 100 times
Scientists believe that plastic scraps in the North Pacific (NPSG for short) have formed an area roughly the size of the US state of Texas (covering an area of more th…
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Mount Fuji may collapse in an earthquake
A hidden fault was discovered near the eastern leg of Japan's iconic mountain, in a study of underground faults by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, S…
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Beijing reduced more than 1,000 polluting enterprises
The Beijing authorities' decision was made after urgent public opinion of the frequent situation of dirty air covering the city, AFP reported. Sometimes the dirty air be…