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Rogun Dam
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Tajikistan's Rogun: Building the world's tallest dam Tajikistan has begun building what is expected to become the world's tallest dam. At a planned 335m tall, Rogun would be higher than Jinping-1 Hydropower Station in China (305m). Read more
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Viracocha III boat
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Boat made from totora reeds to cross Pacific Ocean Cranes place 'Viracocha III', a boat made only from totora reeds, on a trailer truck during preparations for the boat to cross the Pacific Ocean, from Chile to Australia on an expected six-month journey, in La Paz, Bolivia, November 8, 2016. Read mor...
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Ilford mammoth
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1824 The entire skeleton of a large mammoth was recently discovered near London, at Ilford, in the county of Essex, near Stratford and Bow. It lay buried at a depth of about sixteen feet, in a large quarry of diluvial loam and clay which is excavated for making bricks. Mr John Gibson, of Stratford, dili...
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Coastal erosion
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Scientists use technology to study coastal erosion A group of scientists in Cornwall are measuring how grains of sands move up and down the beach and then adapting coastal defences in response to their findings. Read more
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Lumbricus terrestris
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Widnes earthworm Dave wriggles into record books An earthworm named Dave has wriggled into the record books as the largest ever found in the UK - measuring a whopping 40cm. Experts at the Natural History Museum bestowed the accolade upon the annelid after it ventured above ground in a vegetable plot...
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Chronicle of Zuqnin
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Title: The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zuqnin Author: Hisashi Hayakawa, Yasuyuki Mitsuma, Yasunori Fujiwara, Akito Davis Kawamura, Ryuho Kataoka, Yusuke Ebihara, Shunsuke Kosaka, Kiyomi Iwahashi, Harufumi Tamazawa, Hiroaki Isob...
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Marine protected zones
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The US is to establish what it calls "the largest area of protected sea in the world" around its Pacific islands. Commercial fishing and mining will be banned in the protected zones which include the Marianas Trench, the deepest area of ocean on the planet. The area totals 500,000 sq km of...
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Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires, some deliberately set, in northwestern Spain, officials said. Color paintings and carvings on rocks, known as petroglyphs, of wildlife and geometric patterns dating back about 4,000 years, have been charred and blackened...
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When animals evolve on islands, size doesn't matter A theory explaining the evolution of giant rodents, miniature elephants, and even miniature humans on islands has been called into question by new research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The new stu...
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Australian Age of Dinosaurs
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Work is underway at the site of a proposed multi-million dollar dinosaur museum in outback Queensland. The Australian Age of Dinosaurs is planning a world-class museum just outside of Winton, in the state's central west, and is about to build a fossil preparation area and a road on the site. [url=ht...
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Zika
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'Zika mosquito' eggs found near Folkestone in Kent The eggs of a mosquito capable of transmitting tropical diseases, including the Zika virus, have been found for the first time in the UK. People in Stanford near Folkestone have been sent letters telling them Asian tiger mosquito eggs had been disc...
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Limpopo peat fire
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Geologists find cause of Limpopo mystery 'volcano' For months residents of Limpopo's Sehlakwane village have lived in fear that a mystery fire will return and wipe them out. The villagers' fears began earlier this year when a wetland in the centre of their village dried up. But within weeks the grou...
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Mogao Caves
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Mogao Caves open to photographers for the first time Over 100 photographers from China and overseas gathered at the Mogao Caves in northwest China's Gansu Province on Monday, the first such event ever hosted at the site. The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand-Buddha Caves, about 25 km southeas...
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Antarctic Treaty
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The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System or ATS, regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. The treaty, entering into force in 1961 and eventually signed by 47 cou...
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Polynesians
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A new research by scientists has provided insights about the lifestyle and origins of the mysterious Lapita people, ancestors of the present Polynesians and Melanesians. The research began after construction workers unearthed 60 skeletons at Teouma, an archaeological site on Éfaté Island, in...
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