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Green technologies developed to help people cope with natural disasters don't have to be advanced or expensive to provide satisfactory results.
This theory is confirmed by the Environment Agency (EA), using abandoned Christmas trees to come up with an eco-friendly method of reducing flood impact.
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3 January 2012
10:44 GMT |
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The great importance of the mighty Mekong river separates authorities and local people in two categories. Some think the river should be dammed to provide electricity and encourage hydropower development.
Other voices warn that a hydro-electric dam of these dimensions will trigger a series of harmful changes for th... |
14 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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On the first day of the Durban summit, International Rivers and Friends of the Earth International launched a video showing that dams are the wrong answer to the climate change phenomenon. The Google Earth 3D tour raises the public opinion's level of awareness regarding the connection between dams and current ... |
28 November 2011
11:03 GMT |
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In most of the cases, the activities of major corporations disrupt the balance of indigenous populations living in that area. This is the case of an important Brazilian enterprise that decided to abandon its ample project in Peru, after a brief meeting with the Ashaninka of the Tambo River.
Representatives agreed up... |
23 November 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Water appeared on Earth 3.5 billion years ago and it is perhaps the most valuable resource of the planet. H2O means life to anything, from bacterium to elephants and humans. There is no biochemical or physiological reaction in the absence of the water. We must consume on average 2.5 liters of water from food and beve... |
21 April 2008
08:56 GMT |
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Danube Delta represents the largest wetland inside European Union. It is the nesting, stop or wintering place for over 300 species of birds, whose areal stretch from Africa and Asia, beyond the Polar Circle. This place harbors Europe's largest pelican colonies. Despite the fact that the place represents a Biosph... |
16 April 2008
09:26 GMT |
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It is the symbol of the American Southwest and western movies. But how old is the Grand Canyon? A new research suggests that it could have started to form during the dinosaur era.The over a mile (1.6 km) deep canyon in Arizona is the work of the Colorado River digging through ancient rock layers when the plateau of ... |
16 April 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Until 1951, nobody knew the source of the Orinoco River. Accumulating continuously torrents and rivers, Orinoco grows gradually while heading northward through the territory of Venezuela on over 2,000 km (1,250 mi) of thick jungle. In some places, the waters of Orinoco are as big as those of the Amazon and discharge ... |
11 April 2008
17:51 GMT |
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At the beginning of the 17th century, a Berber tribe took refuge in a totally arid area in the heart of Sahara, 400 mi (640 km) south of Alger. The oued (temporary desert river) called Mzab, which irrigates the plateau and the dry valleys once a year, gave its name to the region and the people established here were c... |
11 April 2008
09:23 GMT |
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The Sino-Tibetan mountainous chain, also called the "the Alps of Sichuan", are located between Tibet and China. The highest peak is Gongga (7,556 m or 25,186 ft), China's highest peak outside Himalaya, located in the Hengduan Mountains. The Sino-Tibetan chain is the place on Earth where the terrestrial crust exp... |
11 April 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Doñana National Park is located in southwestern Spain, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It was created in 1969, initially having a surface of 37,000 hectares. In 1978, the park was augmented to 50,720 hectares, to which 26,540 hectares of protected areas, located at its periphery, are added.The park is in a conti... |
9 April 2008
10:09 GMT |
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So far, scientists have known about some salamanders (of the family Plethodontidae) and caecilians (worm-like amphibians) that had lost their lungs. Now they can add a frog on the list of lungless tetrapod vertebrates: the Kalimantan jungle toad (Barbourula kalimantanensis). This amphibian takes all the oxygen it ne... |
8 April 2008
03:56 GMT |
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A protected area with multiple functions, Camargue Regional Park was created in 1970, in the department Bouches du Rhone, for protecting various bird species, wetland ecosystems and to find viable methods of exploiting the natural resources without degrading it. In 1990, the 85,000 hectares of the park were labeled a... |
7 April 2008
16:11 GMT |
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A man will spend money on expensive gifts, best wine, finest sweets and flowers. But in the murky waters of the Amazon, boto or the Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffroyensis) (which also inhabits the Orinoco River) males offer branches, rocks, weeds and lumps of clay to their females, in a parade also intended to cha... |
26 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This river is the maker of the oldest civilization recorded by the historical sources: 5,000 years ago, the Egyptian state emerged on its banks. It is best known as the longest river on the planet. Nile is consensually considered so as it has 6,695 km in length, even if some say that Amazon is longer (6,800 km). The ... |
15 March 2008
09:05 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
06:50 GMT |
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1.Otters are nothing more than water weasels. The oldest otter was found in France: Potamotherium, 30 million years old. The upper carnassial teeth were similar to those of a seal, very different from those of the weasels. This could have also been an ancestor of the seals.The genus Lutra, comprising most modern otte... |
11 January 2008
16:52 GMT |
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Windmills have been used even since the 6th century in Persia (Iran). Unlike the later type used in Europe, this one had a vertical ax with sails which worked on horizontal supports. Mill stones from the inferior end ground the cereals for getting flour. The first mention of a windmill in Europe is that of Bury St Ed... |
7 January 2008
16:46 GMT |
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The largest river in Southeastern Asia, Mekong is also the 11th-longest river in the world and the 12th-largest in volume (discharging 475 km³ of water annually). Its estimated length is 4,880 km (3,032 mi), and it drains an area of 810,000 km² (313,000 sq mi). From the Tibetan Plateau it runs through Yunnan (China),... |
18 December 2007
06:48 GMT |
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It is perhaps the most worldwide known symbol of England: the Tower Bridge. It is associated with the Tower of London, not to be confused with the London Bridge. During the 18th and 19th centuries, many bridges were built over Thames. In 1750, the old London Bridge had such a weak foundation and was so narrow that it... |
3 December 2007
08:50 GMT |
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Niagara Falls consists of a couple of massive waterfalls located on the Niagara River, forming the frontier between Ontario (Canada) and New York state (US). Niagara river, flowing northward, joins Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, being closer to Lake Ontario, and it's just 56 km (35 mi) long.Niagara Falls comprises... |
3 December 2007
06:59 GMT |
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The first beavers appeared in North America about 32 million years ago (at the beginning of Oligocene); by the end of Oligocene, 23 million years ago, they entered Europe, and by the end of Miocene, 5 million years ago, they entered Asia. There are 22 extinct genera of beavers. In Pleistocene, 2 million years ago, Tr... |
29 November 2007
17:28 GMT |
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In Spanish "pantano" means marshland and Pantanal is indeed the world's largest swamp, in a gently sloping relief with meandering rivers. Pantanal is located in southwestern Brazil, but small areas are also found in the neighboring Bolivia and Paraguay, covering a surface of 150,000 square kilometers, more than... |
29 November 2007
03:51 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
10:28 GMT |
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It is the "father of all rivers". With 6,800 km (4,250 mi) in length, it overpasses the Nile (6,695 km or 4,184 mi). But the Amazon's debit is 60 times bigger than that of the former: 200,000 cubic meters/second (the largest in the world, delivering 20 % of the freshwater volume penetrating the oceans). While th... |
24 November 2007
04:00 GMT |
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This is the largest freshwater fish. Just before midnight on November 13, fishers in Cambodia captured this individual of Mekong giant catfish, 8 ft long (2.4 meters long) ands weighing 450 pounds (204 kg)."This is the only giant catfish that has been caught this year so far, making it the worst year on record for ca... |
23 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Each day, about 1,000 worshipers and about 70 tourists visit the temple of Karni Mata, Deshnoke, India. Why? Because in this temple, about 300 rats wander freely while the believers bring their offerings to these idols. The rats are adored and any necessity that they might have is satisfied by the ecstatic prayers. T... |
21 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Some sea creatures can sometimes go upstream on large rivers, like for example the sharks. The bull sharks, a dangerous species for all humans, does it in many tropical areas. But this took everyone by surprise: an 18-foot (6 m) long and 12 tons heavy minke whale stranded on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle about 1,000... |
19 November 2007
07:12 GMT |
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This is a geographic accident located in the desert sands of the Kalahari (Botswana) like the mouth of a large river: a lot of streams and small lakes forming a wet labyrinth where you can see herds of buffaloes and elephants and lions stalking their prey. But the peculiarity of the Okavango is the way it dies. The r... |
14 September 2007
14:07 GMT |
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This is the river of the superlatives. Nile is consensually considered the longest river on Earth, with 6,695 km in length, but some say the Amazon has this honor, with 6,800 km in length. Some researchers even state that Amazon is 7,100 km long. The problem is that nobody could tell where Amazon ends, due to its hug... |
3 July 2007
12:10 GMT |
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A waterfall appears when a running water, a stream or a river, flowing over an erosion-resistant hard rock formation forms a sudden break in elevation. In the mountains, the waterfall can emerge due to relatively sudden geological processes like landslides, faults or volcanic action. This is a list with the world... |
23 June 2007
07:35 GMT |
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There is a debate that has been going on for quite some time now: which is the world's longest river: the Amazon or the Nile? In the 20th century, consensus "granted" the title to the Nile. But now, Brazilian researchers claim the Amazon River, not the Nile, is the longest in the world. The Amazon is by far the ... |
19 June 2007
05:31 GMT |
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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
03:02 GMT |
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In Holland, there is a millenary struggle between man and the sea. 700 years ago, on the western shore of the Netherlands the Zuider Zee (Southern Sea) gulf was formed, which flooded hundreds of cities. In 1420, the Meuse River broke the dams at the south of Dardrecht and the waters swallowed 70 villages, leaving ove... |
17 May 2007
16:31 GMT |
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