Environment
Severe weather destroys 50% of Australian marine ecosystems
Natural disasters such as storms, cyclones, droughts and heat waves have destroyed nearly 50% of marine ecosystems in Australia, many places where natural life cannot re…
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What will happen if you come to live at Chernobyl 'Dead Land' now?
What is the area where the largest nuclear disaster occurred in history? Is it possible to live there?
Environment
Danas and tropical depressions pose a third-degree disaster in the South China Sea
According to the National Center for Meteorological and Hydrological Forecasting, there are storms of Danas and newly formed tropical depressions, causing level 3 disast…
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Finding something extremely dangerous at Chernobyl, touching might die
A device used to clear radioactive waste in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union was recently found.
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Why did the Chernobyl atomic disaster not kill all plant species?
Chernobyl atomic disaster caused thousands of people to get cancer, turning a once-populated area into a ghost city and creating an isolated area of 2600km².
Funny corner
Super disaster design of these 10 WC makes you tell yourself 'it would be better to stay longer'
Good performance but not good design is generally not good.
Environment
Double earthquake struck Sichuan, China, 12 people were killed
Consecutive two powerful earthquakes of 5.2 and 6 degrees were recorded in Sichuan province, southwest China, causing at least 12 people to die and 134 injured.
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As many as 10 reactors make the scientific community fear the Chernobyl disaster again
The reactors of the same type that caused the Chernobyl disaster are still in operation, though improved in quality and safety.
Environment
The Japanese are afraid of the 'black tsunami' coming soon
A major earthquake may occur in the Nanhai trough basin, causing a black tsunami in Tosa Bay in Kochi Prefecture, which is likely to be higher than expected by the Japan…
Animal world
Wild animals proliferate where ever a nuclear disaster occurred
Wild deer, bison, Przewalski horses and 200 species of birds have proliferated in the area once the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred, in Pripyat, Ukraine.
Environment
The risk of 'nuclear coffin' on the ocean leaks disaster
The nuclear coffin designed to store nuclear waste, could be leaked in the Pacific, UN Secretary General expressed concern.
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'Glass rain' falls on Hiroshima beach
Scientists have sought to explain the strange glass pieces of water droplets that appear throughout the beaches around Hiroshima (Japan).
Space science
What terrible disaster will happen if the Earth has 67 moons?
The tides that occur abnormally, more eclipses and harder to launch spacecraft may be a consequence when many moons orbit the Earth.
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Why is the plane hit by lightning?
Experts recalled a disaster similar to the last horrifying plane crash in Moscow that occurred on August 16, 2010 at the airport on Colombia's San Andres Island: a Boein…
Archeology
Not only because of meteors, the main reason for the extinction of dinosaurs was unexpected
Dinosaurs should have lived until today with humans and meteorite disasters that did not make them extinct, a biologist said.