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New technology helps reduce wind power costs
The biggest difficulty for Vietnam to achieve the goal of increasing the rate of electricity production from wind energy from 3.5% in 2010 to 4.5% in 2020 and 6.0% in 20…
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CO2 increased but not proportional to GDP
Through World Bank statistics for more than 150 countries during the period 1960-2008, scientists discovered that CO2 increased by 0.73% on average for every 1% of total…
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China is destroying the environment for the economy
The high growth rate of the Chinese economy for many consecutive years has made them proud to be the leading country in many areas both in the region and internationally…
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Nearly half of a mangrove forest
In 63 years (from 1943-2007) the rate of loss of mangrove forests in Vietnam is very high. The area of mangroves has decreased from 408 thousand hectares (in 1943) to…
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The ocean is acidifying at the fastest rate
The latest research by UN and US scientists has confirmed that the world's oceans are currently acidified at the fastest rate of any time in the past 300 million years d…
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China: Lead poisoning children, Shanghai closed 14 factories
Shanghai City has just decided to close 14 of the 17 battery generation plants to refine the technical criteria, after the test results show that 32 children have been p…
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Antarctic glaciers are melting at a rapid rate
News from the Japan Aviation Exploration Agency and the US space exploration agency said scientists from the two countries have discovered Antarctic glaciers are melting…
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The Arctic ice melted four times faster than forecast
US scientists have confirmed that the Arctic ice sheets are thinning at a rate four times faster than the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecast.
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Earth faces the greatest danger of extinction
Scientists at the Nanjing Institute of Antiquities Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the Earth may have entered the era of the sixth major extinc…
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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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Collection of environmental taxes on plastic bags
Plastic bags subject to tax will be subject to a tax of 45,000 VND / kg and gasoline and oil may be subject to an environmental protection tax of 300 - 1,000 VND / liter.
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Super volcanic eruption for the first time in 600,000 years threatens two-thirds of America
The super volcano located beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyonming, USA is rising at a record rate since 2004, putting at risk a terrible eruption.
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'Humans must find another planet'
The level of environmental pollution and the rate of exploitation of resources on Earth have become so serious that humanity needs to find a second planet before 2030 to…
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In 40 years the Arctic will run out of ice?
Scientists warn that, with the current warming rate of the Earth, only 30-40 years later, ice will not exist in the summer, even in the center of the Arctic.
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The snow on the 'roof of Africa' will disappear
According to a recent study by scientists at Ohio University (USA), Kilimanjaro snow will disappear within two decades, due to global warming.