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One of the three “erupting” lakes in the world, Lake Kivu, is part of Rwanda's plan of new energy sources.Even though the lake appears to be calm and harmless, it is more of a ticking time bomb due to the dissolved volcanic gases trapped in its waters.If the methane and carbon dioxide within these re... |
20 August 2010
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Archaeologists and other researchers from China and the US are currently working together to uncover a mass grave, dating back more than 90 million years ago, which contains the remains of a large dinosaur group that got trapped in mud on the banks of a freshwater lake in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia. Nearly all o... |
16 March 2009
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The Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer (ENDURANCE) is a submarine device financed by NASA and designed by William Stone, the president of Stone Aerospace Corporation in Austin, Texas. It is conceived in order to explore otherwise unreachable, tremendously cold waters under thick layer... |
13 November 2008
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Observations carried out with the Cassini spacecraft have once again confirmed the theory that Saturn's moon Titan has lakes on its surface, after picturing Ontario Lacus located in the south pole of the body, an accumulation of liquid methane and ethane with a size larger than that of the Lake Ontario in the No... |
31 July 2008
05:26 GMT |
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This is like a wound that never gets closed. In one of the hottest spots of the Earth, in the desert of northern Ethiopia, where even in the winter temperatures vary between 40 to 50oC, the volcano Erta Ale was discovered by the Europeans in 1906. The volcano is active for hundreds of years. Most volcanoes manifest t... |
24 March 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Indonesia is famous for hosting some of the world's most powerful volcanoes. Krakatoa, located on an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, is well known because of its 1883 eruption, which generated the loudest sound historically reported: it was distinctly heard even in the Australia... |
21 March 2008
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This is the second canal in the world after the Suez Canal (161 km or 100 mi), having a length of 81.3 km (51 mi). The Panama Canal is located on the territory of the state with the same name, connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean (via Caribbean Sea). The idea of digging a canal to cut short the maritim... |
19 March 2008
10:32 GMT |
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This is an unique and wild landscape, characterized by chaotic rocks, sharp volcanic cones and coniferous forests surrounding the highest lake in the Cascades Mountains, the deepest lake in US (589 m or 1,963 ft) and the seventh in the world: Crater Lake.It is located in southern Oregon, in a volcanic region. The lak... |
14 March 2008
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It's no secret now, Mars is thought to have been much hotter in its past, basically meaning that it could also have had liquid water on its surface at some point in time. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA's Mars Express routinely return evidence of what seems to be gullies or lake beds possibl... |
7 March 2008
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On the night of August 21st, 1986, 80 million cubic meters of carbon dioxide (1.6 million tonnes of CO2) burst from the water of the volcanic Lake Nyos, killing by asphyxiation 1,700 persons and 3,600 livestock. The 50 m (166 ft) tall jet was made of gas (90%) and water. The gas had accumulated in the depths of the l... |
23 February 2008
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1.The populations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and other parts of the southeastern Asia are called Malayan. These people originated in a migration of Mongoloid tribes coming from Taiwan. They first entered Philippines and from there colonized the whole Pacific and Indonesia. But before the Austronesian migrati... |
23 February 2008
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The Bible tells us about the universal deluge, whose unique survivors were Noah and his arch in which he had loaded a pair of each animal species of the Earth. After 150 years of drifting, Noah landed on the Mount Ararat and life turned back to normal. The echoes of catastrophic deluges were found in many civilizatio... |
22 February 2008
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Lake Titicaca is located at an altitude of 3,812 m (12,700 ft) in the Altiplano, a high altitude plateau in the central Andes, about 72 km (44 miles) west of La Paz, Bolivia. The lake is located at the border between Peru and Bolivia and its name means "The lake of the puma" in the Aymara language. It has a surface o... |
16 February 2008
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New observations with the Cassini orbiter show that Saturn's moon Titan contains large quantities of hydrocarbon liquid, about a few hundred times more than the natural reserves found here on Earth. Hydrocarbon gas condenses into Titan's dense atmosphere, then it is raining down on its surface much in the s... |
14 February 2008
02:48 GMT |
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1.About 97% of the water is found in the oceans and seas, 2% in glaciers and ice caps, 0.6% in the table water and 0.02% in rivers and lakes. Water vapors found in the atmosphere and forming the clouds represent 0.001%. Annual rainfall and snowfall on Earth is of 113,000 million cubic meters. This would satisfy human... |
24 January 2008
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Lakes are classified depending on how they formed and on the quality of the water (freshwater or saltwater). Only in the saltiest lakes there is no life. Lakes contain 4 times more freshwater than the rivers, but, if they are not continuously supplied with freshwater, they can disappear through dessication or accumul... |
15 January 2008
08:30 GMT |
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1. The closest relatives of the hippopotamus are ...the whales and dolphins!2-3 million years ago, there were numerous species of hippopotamus, including outside mainland Africa in Europe (UK included), Asia (plus Sri Lanka), and Madagascar. Hippopotamus gorgops, which inhabited deeper waters than the current species... |
24 November 2007
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Venice is not something unique to Europe. There are Asian Venices, and even an African one: Ganvie. This is a tourist attraction not just for the westerners but also for the Africans. Ganvie is a 15,000 inhabitants village, built on pillars over the waters of the lake Nokoue, at north of Cotonou, Benin. In Ganvie the... |
21 November 2007
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On June 30, 1908, the biggest space impact that Earth suffered in modern times, known as the Tunguska event, took place in a remote Siberian area, destroying more than 2,000 sq km (770 square mi) of forest near the Tunguska River (central Siberia). The ball of fire that could have been a comet or asteroid, blasted a... |
8 November 2007
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The Panama Canal has been facing a capacity shortage due to the size of the new cargo ships. The third shipping lane added to the canal will be ready by 2014, 100 years later after the opening of the 51 mi (82 km) long canal, opening the era of the post-Panamax ships. Panamax is a maritime shipping standard describin... |
29 June 2007
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The biggest space impact suffered by Earth in modern times is the Tunguska event, when an impact put down more than 2,000 sq km of forest near the Tunguska River (Siberia) on 30 June 1908. It could have been a comet or asteroid blasting in the atmosphere with a power similar to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs explosions (20 mi... |
26 June 2007
07:36 GMT |
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It has been found that the frozen ocean of the North (for how long could it be still named so?) has its origins in ... a lake. 20 million years ago, what is now the Arctic Ocean was just a very large lake, whose fresh water flew southwards through a narrow strait into the Atlantic.But 18.2 million years ago, the tect... |
22 June 2007
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This represents one of the "last unexplored places on Earth": a unique system of lakes buried thousands of meters under the Antarctic ice sheet.The recently discovered lakes have been cut off from the outside world for millions of years. Now, scientists are preoccupied to "ensure that the environmental management of ... |
4 June 2007
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Water is the blood of planet Earth and its circuit maintains it alive. And this cycle implies rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. Here are some of their records. The largest running water in the world is the Amazon river. Each second, this enormous river disgorges 150,000 cubic meters of water into the Atlantic Ocean (3,... |
27 April 2007
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