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  Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming
...The LiveScience Magazine has published a Top 10 global warming side-effects that not everyone knows about. Global warming is, actually, not only about ice melting in the Arctic and temperature rising. It could turn into very strange things. Here they are: 10. More aggravated and aggressive allergies (the "MAAAA") People are experiencing more aggravated and aggressive allergy fits and, partly, experts blame the global wa...
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  The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...tal Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. have received congratulations on this year's Nobel Prize for peace. They have earned it for making people acquainted with the global warming problem. The two awardees will share the prize in half for being equally committed to the problem of man-made climate changes. The Nobel Prize for peace given to two fighters against global warming shows the acknowle...
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  Only 13 % People Have Internet Access
...Only 13 percent of people on the planet have access to the Internet. This statement was made by the United Nations News Center. The majority of Internet users (90 %) live in industrialized countries. The gap in the field of information technology between the developed countries and those that are in development, is continuously increasing. In its statement the UN News Center mentioned that most developing countries canno...
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  Growth of Emissions Predicted in the U.S. for the Next Decade
...S will grow during the next decade just as much as they did previously. Despite its negative side this document, developed for the United Nations, shows that the emissions of gases causing global warming grow, but with a slower pace as the economy does. This trend corresponds completely with the goal set by the president 5 years ago, that is: the carbon dioxide emissions should not grow faster than the economy. The...
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  Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...Scientists gathered at Arctic Science Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before. Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join...
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  River Drying Up to Lead to Freshwater Crisis
...Due to the changes in climate, pollution and bad planning some of the largest and well-known rivers in the world are currently at risk of drying up. An environment group called WWF made a study that pays attention to ten best-known rivers that can dry up in case people won't take certain measures. The report states that indifference towards these rivers might lead to "fresh water emergency." Among the ten rivers that the...
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  Russian Mine Blast at Novokuznetsk (coverage)
...Early morning, on May 24th, 217 people, workers at the "Yubileynaya" mine in Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo Oblast (Russia), got into the elevator to go deep down the mine and collect more coal for their country. However, the scenario was rewritten at approximately 7:30 AM Moscow Time (4:30 AM GMT). At approximately 520 meters (about 1700 ft) deep down the mine a highly dangerous gas - methane - exploded. By the end o...
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  Toilet Flushes Cuts in Prison
...the new system will be the prison at Gatton, west of Brisbane. Mr. Spence said that there should be a regime in prisons to shorten water wastage. Prisoners spend a lot of time in the shower, often warming the cells at cold nights. They use water unlimitedly. Nationals MP Rob Messenger also said that there should be restrictions as many prisoners do not feel any. He claimed that parliament prisoners often have a ...
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  Robots Assist in Rescuing Disaster Victims
... Urban search and rescue robots are tested at a special 'Disaster City' training facility according to specific disaster scenarios. The robots will help rescue people in collapsed buildings and train wrecks. Scientists will test robot performance applying actual training scenarios for emergency responders. Test results are required for improving and developing new usage guides that allow to match specific kinds of robot...
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  New Indoor Climate-Control System to Adjust to Your Own Environmental Preferences Via the Web
...A new indoor climate control system is able to make 'smart decisions' according to changing conditions in an office or building. The technology is based upon interaction with people present in the office. The users will be able to regulate the system to match their own environment preferences through the web. The system has been developed by Syracuse, N.Y.-based company CollabWorx Inc. The users of the Open Web Service...
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  Second Smallest Country on Earth is Disappearing
...Deputy Prime Minister of a tiny South Pacific island of Tuvalu calls to the rest of the world to take urgent action as his nation is at danger of disappearing due to global warming. Experts claim that island can sink in less than 50 years. The country,measuring a mere 26 km2 and its 10,500 people could be the first to sink due to the current rising sea level. Tuvalu island is a part of atolls and reefs that are no mo...
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  50 plus workers become more valuable
...Many countries are at risk of having considerable lack of skilled workers and increased labor costs if they won't persuade older workers to stay and work beyond retirement age. The research conducted by global consultancy Towers Perrin made an analysis and predicted that in almost nine years there will be 39 percent of the population in Group of Seven industrialized nations will be aged 50 or older. In 1996 there were...
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  Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change
... living in Antarctica may not have links to current reconstructions of the former glacial ice extent, the roots of which go back more than 23 million years. The Antarctica of today, due to global warming, is less than 1 percent ice-free. Scientists believe that throughout ice ages there was not enough ice-free land required for the continent's plants and animal species. In such conditions both plants and animal life w...
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  One Million of 100-Year-Olds by 2050, Half of Them to Face Dementia
...More and more people live to 100 and beyond in Britain, yet the fight against age-related diseases assumes the same importance as global warming and terrorism, according to a leading scientist. Dr Guy Brown, a neuroscientist from the Cambridge University, is warning that gradual increase in lifespan implies that more and more elderly people have to spend the last decades of their life in the struggle against disabilit...
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  eBay - Ground for Weirdest Lots
...During the years of its existence, the Internet auction eBay has become not only a way to earn money for thousands of on-line stores, but also a place where one can always find something interesting, absolutely useless or weird to buy. Not only simple Internet users have a chance to convince themselves of this fact. Yves Leterme, the Prime Minister of Belgium, had a chance to find the following lot on the eBay: "unused...
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