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Oil palm plantations pose a threat to water quality
Palm oil is an ingredient in thousands of products, from peanut butter, packaged bread, shampoo, shaving cream ... the palm oil industry is a booming multi-billion dolla…
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Use leaves for scrub to clean medical waste
Researchers at Sultan Qaboos University (Kingdom of Oman) proposed the production of dates (the palm tree species) not to throw away leaves but to treat wastewater, espe…
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6 best biofuel types
Biofuels - formed from plant-animal-derived compounds - are hailed as a safe and clean energy source for future pollution reduction. But do they really bring full benefi…
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Hong Kong produces biodiesel from waste oil
Hong Kong entrepreneurs and investors from the Netherlands and the Middle East are currently cooperating to build a plant that converts waste oils into biodiesel.
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Antarctica was once warm
In the warm period 52 million years ago, tropical plants were like palm trees, each covering the Antarctic coast. The sediment on the continental shelf near Antarctica h…
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Production of aircraft lubricants from petroleum and coconut oil
Experts from the Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center have developed the optimal aircraft maintenance technology from oil and coconut oil or palm oil, which reduces the co…
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La Nina weather phenomenon has reached its peak
On January 11, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) evaluated the weather phenomenon La Nina in 2011-2012, culminat…
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Biofuels from plants are equivalent to fossil fuels
Researchers at Leicester University in the United Kingdom found that CO2 emissions in oil palm plantations are more than twice as high as previously thought.
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Deforestation in Malaysia is three times faster than Asia
Malaysia's deforestation rate is three times faster than that of all Asian countries combined and even peat-rich forests along the coast of Sarawak state, the largest st…
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Ancient climate change: palm trees give way to spruce
For climatologists, part of the challenge to predict the future is to find out exactly what happened in the past periods of global climate change.
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Floods raging in Malaysia
Malaysia's floods have killed at least 12 people and left more than 20,000 people homeless. The national meteorological agency forecasts that the flood will continue to…
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The most luxurious life in the world in Dubai
Dubai is mentioned as the most lucrative country, when the luxury here is hard to find anywhere in the world.
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Unique Germany with a view from above
The Cologne Cathedral looks like a giant cross, and the Herrenhausen garden in winter appears like a white carpet embroidered with soft curling motifs.
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Earth magnificent through the series of pilots
British pilot Jon Bowles recorded stunning images showing the beauty of famous lands, from the Red River in Hanoi to Palm Island in Dubai.
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Surprise with surreal 3D drawings in the palm of your hand
Magical magic hands of the young painter Iantha Naicker have made extremely unique 3D works.