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Lightning strikes Rio de Janeiro is due to urbanization?
O Globo quoted Osmar Pinto Jr as an expert in urban development, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, which led to an increase in charge clouds.
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Earth increased 4 degrees C, Vietnam lost enough sugar
The World Bank (WB) announced the report that the temperature of the earth has risen to 4 degrees Celsius, Vietnam will be badly affected, especially in the agricultural…
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The observatory is useless because of light pollution
People and scientists cannot use China's oldest observatory at night because of light pollution.
Environment
Urban Ozone is a silent killer
Katherine Ensor, a statistician at Rice University in the United States, and colleagues analyzed data on more than 11,600 people who experienced a heart attack in Housto…
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Weather forecast may be wrong for urban
Heat from buildings, cars, and factories in big cities can cause temperatures in areas thousands of kilometers away to increase or decrease compared to the forecast of m…
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Urban 'swallowed' 20,000 football fields every day
The pace of expansion of cities is at its highest level in human history and the world loses an area of 20,000 American football fields every day because of urbanizati…
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Asian cities continued to suffer disaster
Serious flooding, power shortages, power outages or traffic jams are pressures that big cities in Asia are suffering under the impact of dizzying economic development, e…
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Australia encourages tree planting on the roofs
Reporters in Australia said Sydney and Melbourne (the capital of New South Wales and Victoria) are greening roofs at commercial centers to attract tourists and improve t…
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Venice is both sinking and tilting
The rise in sea level is not the only threat to the famous urban area with the extensive canal system along the Italian coast. The results of a team of experts from the…
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Air pollution will kill nearly 4 million people
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just released a research report on the global environmental outlook by 2050. Accordingly, without i…
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Traffic - No. 1 culprit causes air pollution
According to Mr. Nguyen Hoang Duc, Head of Air Control and Import of Scrap, General Department of Environment, air quality in urban Vietnam is in alarm, especially in bi…
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WB helps Vietnam cope with urban flood risks
The World Bank (WB) said on February 14 that it will continue to support Vietnam in controlling and coping with flood risks through loans, technical assistance and input…
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Hanoi spent more than 3 billion VND for environmental planning
On August 9, Hanoi People's Committee decided to spend over 3.3 billion dong to set up the project of environmental protection planning in Hanoi city to 2020 and orienta…
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Artificial green plants
Hoping to help the city of Boston (USA) reduce CO2 emissions, two designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico of Influx Studio (France) plan to implement a tree-made a…