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Ancient climate change: palm trees give way to spruce
For climatologists, part of the challenge to predict the future is to find out exactly what happened in the past periods of global climate change.
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Consolidating the hypothesis that the Tunguska explosion in 1908 was caused by comets
New Cornell University study, the United States is almost certain that the 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet falling into the atmosphere. The explosion is de…
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Sichuan earthquake again, thousands of houses damaged
A small earthquake on the morning of June 30 damaged thousands of homes in Sichuan Province (China).
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Remove run massively due to climate change
Global warming is forcing hundreds of millions of people to leave their habitats. If that situation continues, we will have to witness the biggest migrations in human hi…
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India makes artificial rain against drought
Indian scientists are studying new artificial rain techniques to deal with the terrible heat wave in northern states.
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Clean water must be an element of human rights
Enabling each person to have access to clean water, this right is as important as other rights and should be included in law as a factor of human rights.
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The tree saves the planet from freezing
Humans and all living beings are indebted to plants, because thanks to them, the earth has not been covered by ice for the past 26 million years.
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Seabirds can predict El Nino
It took 18 years to study the number of birds living on the Great Barrier reef, scientists have discovered a predictable law of El Nino.
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Many people died from flooding in the North
Floods lasted from 3-5 / 7 in the northern mountains, causing many deaths. Water in some rivers is reaching record levels. Preliminary damage is estimated at tens of bil…
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The origin of oxygen on Earth
There is still a lot of controversy with the main biological elements in the world of
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El Nino changes may cause many storms to land
Normally, in the years of the El Niño phenomenon, there are fewer storms on the Atlantic than usual. However, a new study suggests that El Niño can morph into form and c…
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Coping with climate change in 2050
A new type of refugee emerges and tends to increase dramatically: environmental refugees. Around 2050 there will be about 200 million refugees of this type.
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'Strange smoke from Hanoi' is acid mist
In the days of being covered by smoke, many Hanoi people find it difficult to breathe and sting their eyes. When light rain appeared, I measured and found that the pH of…
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The threat of ice melting from the West Antarctic ice sheet may be less than expected
A recent study said that, while all or part of the western Antarctic ice sheet melted due to global warming, the sea level in the US coastal areas would rise by 25%. The…
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More than 300 million people are suffering from greenhouse gases
According to the most comprehensive study of the effects of greenhouse effect, global warming each year kills about 300,000 people.