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Indonesia wants to take advantage of volcanoes to make electricity
The Indonesian government has just announced an ambitious plan to take advantage of huge volcanic heat in the country to produce electricity.
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Novacem Cement will replace Portland cement?
With so much CO2 emissions due to limestone cement production, Nikolaos scientist has developed a green cement that absorbs CO2.
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2010 - the number of people killed by unusually high natural disasters
The number of deaths due to natural disasters worldwide changes every year and often tends to increase. Disaster experts say that increase is due in part to an increase…
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Asian monsoon: the cause of dispersing pollutants
During the Asian monsoon period pollutants are most strongly dispersed into the upper atmosphere, making them more lasting in the air and spreading globally.
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Toilet paper threatens the forest
Every day humans cut about 270,000 trees worldwide and 10% of them become materials for producing toilet paper.
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In just a few years, cars will run on seaweed
The erratic change of oil prices as well as the pressure of reducing global emissions and climate change, scientists are trying to create fuel from algae.
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The earthquake made Chile separate from America
Before the earthquake in February, Chile was with the whole continent moving northeast to Africa. But now, this land goes in the opposite direction ...
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Italy established a committee for monitoring volcanoes under the sea
The Italian government has signed a special decree on the establishment of an international scientific committee to study and monitor marine volcanoes in the country.
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Volcanoes will spray more because of climate change
Global warming can increase the number of dangerous geological events such as volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides.
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Mathematical tsunami forecast
A new mathematical formula can warn of the level of a tsunami and how to overpower it.
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Icelandic volcanoes can inflict the whole world
When a volcano in Iceland operated in 1783, many people in Britain died of poison gas, the European crop failed to spread the famine.
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The stratospheric steam changes the global temperature
Scientists seem to have missed the impact of stratospheric steam on global temperatures.
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Undersea volcano threatens Italy
Europe's largest undersea volcano can wake up anytime and create a tsunami on the southern coast of Italy.
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El Nino may stop working in the middle of this year
El Nino weather phenomenon peaked in late 2009 but continued to have a strong impact on global weather before ending in mid-2010.
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Shoot rockets to solve the problem
In order to create rain and save the southwestern provinces, from March 22 to March 28, China used dozens of flights, shooting nearly 10,000 shells and 1,000 rockets int…