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China: 70% of rivers and lakes are polluted
70% of Chinese rivers and lakes are polluted and 75% need to improve quality, information from a symposium in Jiangxi Province yesterday said.
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Emissions increased by 27% compared to 650,000 years ago
Ocean water levels and greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster than this phenomenon for thousands of years, according to two new reports released yesterday, further s…
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Greenhouse effect brings Earth to Jurassic
If the temperature gets warmer due to the greenhouse effect, the Earth could return to the Jurassic period 150 million years ago. That means, every creature is destroyed…
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Drought will be more frequent
Severe droughts like the 70s and 80s may become normal in Africa by the end of this century due to the greenhouse effect. Computer reproductions of African climate publi…
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European temperatures continue to rise
The new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) recommends that Europe is facing the most severe weather changes in the last 5,000 years. The average temperature…
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Volcanoes operate in the freezing zone
The territories of British overseas are expanding. According to researchers from the British Antarctic Survey Association (BAS), volcanoes erupting on the island of Mont…
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How did the Antarctic ice sheet become?
According to a study by German experts, the formation and growth of the Antarctic ice sheet, more than 14 million years ago, was due to the low carbon in space and the g…
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Managing and protecting Bai Tu Long National Park
Bai Tu Long National Park, Van Don island district, Quang Ninh province are well implementing forest protection and preserving biodiversity of flora and fauna population…
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Melaleuca deforestation in the Mekong Delta: Risk of ecological stratification
A series of Melaleuca forests in Long An, Dong Thap, and Tien Giang were cut down by farmers, shifted to rice and some other crops, the destruction of Melaleuca forests…
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Who controls the Earth's climate?
Do climate fluctuations stem from unusual changes in natural factors? Or the action of a country that owns a suspicious technology? Will there exist a weapon that change…
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Amazone forest area was twice as much as the estimated figures
According to the newly published research results, the number of forests in Amazone area is damaged by cutting trees for illegal timber more than 2 times as far as is st…
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Lam Dong: Pine trees are regenerated
Young botanist Nong Van Duy, Da Lat Biological Sub-Institute, said that he has just discovered the phenomenon of regeneration in the pine tree of two flat leaves in many…
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Storm & people
The typhoon season usually occurs each year in the tropics, between June and December, when the tropical convergence band is 5-200 miles away from the equator.
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Storm No. 8 - the most bizarre storm ever
'In the history of our country's meteorological and hydrological history, this is probably the most dramatic storm,' said Dr. Bui Minh Tang, Director of the Northern Del…
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Bau Sau area is recognized as a wetland
The Ramsar Convention Secretariat in Switzerland has recognized the Bau Sau wetland system (Cat Tien National Park) with the 1499th international importance of the world…