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Seal the crater with cement
Indonesian officials today will release hundreds of giant circular concrete blocks into a volcanic crack to prevent mud from erupting, at risk of flooding villages and h…
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Earth warms, ice mountains melt
The ice on the top of the White Mountains (Cordillera Blanca) of Peru, is considered the largest ice in the tropics, is melting fast ... Scientists track the melting of…
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Amazon forests are at risk of turning into desert
Brazilian researchers have warned that a warmer global climate could kill the world's largest tropical forest, turning the Amazon into a desert from now until the end of…
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Australia: burning hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest
Smoke of forest fires covering Australia's second largest city of Melbourne on December 9 made the city postpone flights and fire sirens at the port.
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The Amazon River has changed the flow
The Amazon River, the largest river in the world, once flowed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, opposite to the current flow. A recent study has found in sed…
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The world's largest iceberg is broken by a storm
At the end of October 2005, Earth's largest once-known iceberg was broken off Cape Adare in Antarctica. According to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, s…
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The world's fifth largest gold and copper mine was discovered in Pakistan
The world's fifth largest gold and copper mine has just been discovered in Pakistan's Chaghi region, Balochistan province, according to Pakistani media reports.
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Ice in the Alps can disappear by 2100
By the end of the century if summer air temperatures rise by 30C, Europe's largest Alps - ice across seven countries including Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Lie…
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China is emitting the most SO2 in the world
China has become the world's largest emitter of sulfur dioxide (SO2), with more than half of its emissions coming from coal-fired power plants.
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The second largest bay in the world - Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico lies between Southeastern North America, bordering the American peninsula of Florida, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the Cuban island forming an oval.…
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The largest artificial lake in the world
Volta artificial lake has the largest area in the world located in Ghana (East Africa). The artificial lake with the largest water volume is Lake Bratsk on the Angara Ri…
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Building the largest solid waste treatment area in the country
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has granted investment licenses for construction and operation of the solid waste treatment complex, with a capacity of 3,000 ton…
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Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro conservation area
The Serengeti National Park consists of 1.5 million hectares of savannas and forests with the world's largest herbivores. Migration of wild animals, zebras and antelopes…
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Sundarbans National Park (India)
The Sundarbans, comprising more than 10,000 square kilometers of land and water between India and Bangladesh, the middle region, located in West Bengal (India), were mad…
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Ozone holes in Antarctica: can not be predicted
The ozone hole in Antarctica is now the third largest hole recorded, but the weather forecasters are still not sure how it will be in the future, according to the World…