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Climate change increases the risk of cancer
A study by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) shows that, when the earth warms, melting ice in two poles releases a large amount ...
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China pollutes water sources because of 'chemical dependence'
To ensure sufficient food for a population of more than 1.3 billion people, China must strongly use chemical fertilizers to increase crop yields. And the consequence is…
Environment
Long flood in Thailand, 107 people died
Thai officials announced that as of yesterday, 107 people had died in a nearly-month-long flood, while a new flood ...
Environment
One person produces two tons of CO2 each year from eating
Recent research by Spanish scientists has calculated the huge amount of carbon dioxide that each person emits in a year ...
Environment
Millions of Africans are affected by floods
According to the UN Humanitarian Aid Coordination Office, 377 people died and nearly 1.5 million people were affected by floods in Africa.
Environment
Insects will be the future food supply?
Experts from the World Food and Agriculture Organization urged people to eat insects instead of steak or sausage.
Environment
Melting glaciers make the food crisis
The melting of glaciers around the world will give rise to new food crises.
Environment
Biofuels can increase pollution 4 times
Biofuels made from soybeans can produce four times the greenhouse effect of fuels like gasoline and diesel.
Environment
Eating cotton seeds and growing rice underground
Food scarcity is the source of instability globally and in every country. People have applied many scientific advances to create new foods.
Environment
Cooking with sun rays
Stoves operated by heat from the sun can change the lives of people in poor countries.
Environment
Study the phenomenon of
McDonald's business group of fast-food restaurant systems will learn how to reduce methane in cows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment
'Rescue' the earth with green food
US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke once commented: 'Clean energy may be the biggest economic opportunity of this century.'
Environment
Sa Pa may have frost for the second time in a year
It is likely that places with elevations above 1,500m such as O Quy Ho Pass and Fanxipan Mountain will have the second phenomenon of frost, frost in 2009.
Environment
Bio-plastic bags are able to self-destruct quickly
Scientists at Brazil's Campinas University have introduced a new type of bio-plastic bag that is capable of rapidly destroying itself.
Environment
The unknown thing about interactive disaster forecasting map
When the earth's temperature rises by 4 degrees Celsius, food production will decline sharply, the number of forest fires and floods ... increases in many countries.