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Silver mine swallowed up the 400-year-old city in the Andes
A silver mine that once enriched Spain expanded, swallowing up the old city and poisoning the children.
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The 10 biggest dangers to the environment and people
Cooking with charcoal is one of the leading threats to human health. Meanwhile, contaminated surface water is even more frightening than radioactive waste
Environment
The fire-breathing death pit in Xinjiang China
Recently, residents in Xinjiang - China discovered a strange fire-breathing pit on a nearby hill, terrifying people. People call it
Environment
China is about to exploit ice in the South China Sea
China plans to exploit fire ice, an energy source that can extract natural gas, in the South China Sea in 2017.
Environment
Serbia announced the plan to overcome the flood disaster
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on May 21 that Serbia would have a four-way plan to overcome the flood disaster.
Environment
Rare earth in the seabed
Economists and geologists are worried that reserves of rare earth elements (hereinafter referred to as rare earths) will run out faster than expected because supply does…
Environment
Rare earths are threatening technological development
The lack of rare earth metals, used in high-tech electronics, is threatening to push back the rapid growth of many different technologies.
Environment
Greenland allows the exploitation of uranium and rare earth in the Arctic
Greenland parliament on October 24 voted to end a decade-long ban on the exploitation of radioactive materials such as uranium.
Environment
Recovery of rare earth from waste water
Rare earth elements are essential for making modern electronic devices such as magnets, catalysts, superconductors ... But because they are rare, they are very expensive.
Environment
More than 200 million people are at risk of environmental toxicity
On November 4, environmental organizations warned hundreds of millions of people around the world are at risk of contamination due to environmental pollution.
Environment
Iran discovered large quantities of molybdenum sediment
Iranian media reported on September 30, a large amount of molybdenum sediment with an estimated reserve of 21.7 million tons.
Environment
Japan is allowed to exploit rare rare earths in the Pacific
The Japanese government said on July 20 that it had obtained a license to explore and exploit cobalt-rich rare earths at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Environment
Burning ice - a new energy revolution?
Japanese scientists have successfully extracted new energy from ice fire (burnt ice). This is a plentiful source of material distributed on the oceans and ice covered ar…
Environment
For the first time, there was a high content of rare earth in the Indian Ocean
According to Xinhua, the Japanese researcher said on May 19 that they had discovered the Indian Ocean Ocean sludge containing rare earths with high content.
Environment
Japan obtained about 120,000m3 of gas from the
A week ago, Japan became the first country to exploit natural gas from methane hydrate (burning ice) on the sea floor.