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The most spectacular waterfalls
Environment

The most spectacular waterfalls

They dump millions of liters of water from the high cliffs, digging the flow in the hardest rock blocks. Waterfalls are the giants of fleetingness: their formidable aggr…

December 16, 2018
Turn the Ba River water into ... pure water
Environment

Turn the Ba River water into ... pure water

Each hour this machine can produce 300 liters of pure water, consuming only 610 W of electricity, making money of only a few hundred VND. Currently the machine has been…

December 16, 2018
The Amazon River has changed the flow
Environment

The Amazon River has changed the flow

The Amazon River, the largest river in the world, once flowed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, opposite to the current flow. A recent study has found in sed…

December 16, 2018
The primitive oceans have very hot temperatures!
Environment

The primitive oceans have very hot temperatures!

According to a French study published in Nature that confirms a controversial hypothesis for 30 years: 2 to 3.5 billion years ago, the average temperature in the oceans…

December 16, 2018
Warning of Hanoi environment
Environment

Warning of Hanoi environment

The national forum for environmental health for 32 northern provinces has just been held in Hanoi, giving a deep warning about Hanoi's environmental health.

December 16, 2018
Facing El-Nino
Environment

Facing El-Nino

Master Le Thi Xuan Lan - deputy head of the forecast department of the Southern Regional Meteorological Station - said that from May to August 2006 continuously, the SOI…

December 16, 2018
Super Typhoon Cimaron enters the South China Sea
Environment

Super Typhoon Cimaron enters the South China Sea

The Philippine Meteorological Agency measured winds of up to 195km / hour (level 16), jerked 230km / hour (in the Beaufort wind scale, the last level was level 17 only t…

December 16, 2018
Kien Giang Sea: World biosphere reserve
Environment

Kien Giang Sea: World biosphere reserve

The coastal and marine areas of Kien Giang have recently been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a world bios…

December 16, 2018
Earth's temperature tends to heat up unevenly
Environment

Earth's temperature tends to heat up unevenly

The average temperature of the ocean has decreased slightly between 2003 and 2005, after more than a decade of warming, the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO…

December 16, 2018
The global warming is close to the critical level
Environment

The global warming is close to the critical level

Earth temperatures are approaching danger with the highest level ever predicted occurred in millions of years, scientists have announced. The earth is warming at a rate…

December 16, 2018
World GHG mitigation conference
Environment

World GHG mitigation conference

Energy and environmental ministers from the world's 20 most greenhouse gas emissions countries have met in Monterrey, Mexico yesterday to discuss climate change.

December 16, 2018
UNEP: The ocean is being turned into a 'landfill'.
Environment

UNEP: The ocean is being turned into a 'landfill'.

In a public report at La Hey (Netherlands) on October 4, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) warned of rapid urbanization in coastal areas plus dumping of wast…

December 16, 2018
The world's largest iceberg is broken by a storm
Environment

The world's largest iceberg is broken by a storm

At the end of October 2005, Earth's largest once-known iceberg was broken off Cape Adare in Antarctica. According to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, s…

December 16, 2018