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August 13, 2010 / Earth

Argentinian lake maybe holds secret of life on Earth

Argentinian lake maybe holds secret of life on Earth

Argentina's remote lake in northwestern territories may have clues on how life got started on Earth and how life could survive on Mars or other planets, not just in our solar system. Researchers have

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August 10, 2010 / Earth

Hiking through Amazonian rainforest

Hiking through Amazonian rainforest

Brittish explorer named Ed Stafford finished his 6500km long journey along the Amazon River in little more than two years. Ed started his journey at Camana, Peru on April 2, 2008 and ended it yesterda

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July 18, 2010 / Earth

Mangroves are disappearing faster then other forests

Mangroves are disappearing faster then other forests

Last report by the U.N. Environmental Program or UNEP showed that about a one fifth of the world’s mangroves have been lost since 1980. It is more than 36 square kilometers of forests that are strad

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May 18, 2010 / Earth

The Aurora lights

The Aurora lights

Lights in the sky have fascinated us for thousands of years. The lights in the far north and south of our planet are some of the more famous ones. What was in that soup? Travel to Antarctica or th

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April 24, 2010 / Earth

Cactus - cheap water purifier

Cactus – cheap water purifier

Forget expensive machinery, the best way to purify water could be hiding in a cactus. It turns out that an extract from the prickly pear cactus is effective at removing sediment and bacteria from dirt

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March 23, 2010 / Earth

Chemical pollution

Chemical pollution

There are approaching 100,000 different human­ made chemical compounds in use around the world today, in millions of different products. Additional compounds are created as by-products of manufac

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March 20, 2010 / Earth

Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycles

Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycles

Nitrogen is an essential component of all living things, yet only a small amount of the planet's stock of nitrogen is in a form that living things can absorb. This is "fixed" out of the air by bacteri

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March 19, 2010 / Earth, disasters

Biodiversity on Earth

Biodiversity on Earth

Individual species may not matter much on their own, but collectively they form ecosystems that provide a range of vital "ecosystem services", such as recycling waste, cleaning water, absorbing carbon

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March 17, 2010 / Earth

Can we reduce water consumption?

Can we reduce water consumption?

Humans now control most of the world's rivers, damming and diverting many of them to death. Thanks to us, a quarter of the world's river systems no longer reach the ocean for at least part of the year

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March 15, 2010 / Earth, global warming

Ozone - Global problem or not?

Ozone – Global problem or not?

The ozone hole that formed in the stratosphere over Antarctica in the 1970s was a classic example of an environmental tipping point. Ozone-destroying chemicals built up in the frigid stratosphere unti

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March 10, 2010 / Earth, global warming

What about acid oceans?

What about acid oceans?

This is a relatively new issue, rarely discussed until 10 years ago. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more is absorbed by the oceans, creating carbonic acid. Since the industrial revolution

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March 9, 2010 / Earth, global warming

Climate changes in forthcoming years

Climate changes in forthcoming years

Ever since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (or one word IPCC) 2007 report on the impacts of  climate change was discovered to contain a major  error­ that the Himalayan glaciers wil

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