NASA is funding 5 years Go North Expedition into the northern Arctic . The team will be starting on March 15 from the Alaska .to study out how much snow blankets the earth. Armed with two dogsled teams consisting of 12-13 huskies it seeks to…
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Even after 20 years Chernobly continues to spread its deadly wings across Europe.
The Department of Health admitted that more than 200,000 sheep are grazing on land contaminated by fallout from the explosion at the Ukrainian nuclear plant 1,500 miles…
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Government reports:
More than 70 percent of China’s rivers and lakes are polluted
Underground water supplies in 90 percent of Chinese cities are contaminated.
Industrial refuse dumped illegally into local rivers have cost the lives of innumerable…
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Australia’s north-east coast is hit by a powerful tropical cyclone last weekend with a wind speed of up to 290km/h (180mph). It is the tropical Cyclone Larry hat that uncompromisingly smashed into Queensland at Innisfail, about 100km (62 miles) south of..
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Global warming has reached a “tipping point,” and blame humans for this. It is alarming that this warming would continue even if greenhouse gas emissions halted immediately, according to a new survey of scientific research.
“It would keep on…
Frogs are the first amphibians to be placed alongside an exclusive group of mammals, such as whales and dolphins — that have ultrasonic ability. Some persistent croakers in China have ‘switched’ to ultrasound!
Albert Feng, a professor of…
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Here is a piece of good news for ethanol producers. Defying the old notion, a recent study discovered that it takes less energy to produce ethanol than the corn-based fuel saves. There’s a 20 percent net energy gain by using fossil fuels to make…
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Is it something closer to a dream to change a desert nation’s climate? Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov ordered a forest planted to fulfill a similar dream of his. The latest of the autocratic leader’s elaborate projects include an artificial lake…
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North Carolina is the second-largest swine producing state creating a major environmental hazard. And to add to it, a five-year study to find more environmentally friendly ways to treat hog waste turned up several options – but none could make the…
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What led feathers to develop among the dinosaurs that likely gave rise to birds? The fossil of a small, predatory dinosaur discovered in Germany has left experts rethinking on this question.
Some 150 million years ago, the small, long-tailed predator.
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