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Equipment for warning volcanic spray
Experts from Newcastle University, UK have developed a device that can withstand temperatures up to 900oC, can be released deep into the ground to help early warning vol…
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Prevent strong thunderstorms
On the first day of the week, the cold high pressure blade continued to weaken, then from Tuesday there will be a wave of cold air intensified again.
Environment
Sinabung volcano again erupted violently
At 4:45 am today 3-9, Sinabung volcano on Indonesia's Sumatra island sprayed with the strongest level in the past few days.
Environment
Indonesian volcano erupts 5,000 meters
This morning, the Sinabung volcano in Indonesia spewed ash dust with a height of 5,000 meters, the most powerful eruption in the past 400 years.
Environment
New Zealand suffered 280 earthquake aftershocks
Today New Zealand's Christchurch city is shaken by a 5.1-magnitude seismic. This is just one of more than 280 aftershocks of the September 4 earthquake.
Environment
America: Forest fire burns 136 houses
Big fire in the area around Fourmile gorge, near the town of Boulder, Colorado, USA, burned at least 136 houses. This is the most devastating fire in this state's histor…
Environment
Storm No. 5 is directed at China
At 10 o'clock on 9-9, the location of the storm center number 5 is about 310 km southeast of Guangdong Province (China). The strongest winds in the area near the storm c…
Environment
India: floods cause 10 deaths, 300,000 people evacuate
At least 10 people were killed and about 300,000 were evacuated due to floods and landslides after heavy rains in northeastern India. In Arunachal Pradesh and Assam stat…
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In Chad, 24 people died, 70,000 people lost their homes
Half of the small Central African country, Chad is suffering a huge flood, affecting 145,000 people here. What is worse is that in this area last year suffered a huge dr…
Environment
Nghe An: Storm No. 3 causes great damage
At 7 o'clock this morning, August 25, Nghe An Flood and Storm Control Board said that as of this time, 1 person died and 5 people were injured by the storm No. 3. Econom…
Environment
Disaster from a giant water bag on Mont Blanc
3,000 people in the Saint-Servais valley have just been told about the risk of a giant bag of water under a layer of ice at an altitude of 3200m that could burst and spi…
Environment
New direction in earthquake warning
NASA scientists have come up with a new way of developing radar systems and aviation maps for earthquake alert purposes.
Environment
Oil again sprayed under the Gulf of Mexico
Oil and gas continued to escape from the broken bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, a few days after the BP group put a new cap into the well.
Environment
China: Oil spreads over 400km2 of sea surface from a pipeline explosion
The oil pipeline explosion last Friday in China has caused oil to spread from one of the country's largest ports to 430km2 ...
Environment
More than 9 million liters of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico every day
The US scientists have just released the latest calculation of oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, whereby the amount of oil escaping from the bay every day can re…