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Wind energy is 100 times more than human needs
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Wind energy is 100 times more than human needs

Wind energy on our planet is enough to ensure the energy needs of all humanity. In the upper atmosphere, the faster the wind, the stronger and more frequent, can provide…

December 16, 2018
The iceberg was torn from Greenland
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The iceberg was torn from Greenland

A glacier twice the size of Manhattan (USA) was torn off one of Greenland's largest glaciers, the latest sign of a dramatic change in this warming polar island.

December 16, 2018
Decode the mysterious sound of the Northern Aurora
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Decode the mysterious sound of the Northern Aurora

This mysterious sound appeared both in legend and made anyone who happened to hear both anxious and frightened. However, for the first time in history, strange cracks an…

December 16, 2018
Eat less meat to save the earth
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Eat less meat to save the earth

Scientists have warned that Western countries need to cut half of their meat diets in their diet to prevent global warming, mainly because of livestock products of the i…

December 16, 2018
Cool the earth with balloons
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Cool the earth with balloons

The project of spraying water into the stratosphere (Spice) advocates spraying small droplets of water into the atmosphere from a balloon that is

December 16, 2018
'Super volcano' formed faster than expected
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'Super volcano' formed faster than expected

The largest volcanoes on Earth, or 'super volcanoes', take only a few hundred years to form and erupt, not hundreds of thousands of years as scientists previously though…

December 16, 2018
Nuclear power against climate change
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Nuclear power against climate change

After the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima I power plant in Japan, Germany and many developed countries planned to phase out nuclear power plants. The Japanese government…

December 16, 2018
The Earth is going to return to an ice age?
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The Earth is going to return to an ice age?

Scientists at the GFZ Geological Sciences Research Center analyzed the sediment layer at the bottom of the Meerfelder Maar lake in Eifel (Germany) and found direct evide…

December 16, 2018