Refill the Ozone layer The Ozone is configured of 3 oxygen molekules O3. After destruction of Ozone by chlorine or bromine (agent form US agriculture to protect plants) the Oxygen did not disappear, it is separeted 3...
International writers festival a brainchild of Stephen Alter begins in Mussoorie. A sea of writers cascade in the quiet hillstaion town of Mussoorie. "The International Writers’ Festival 2008 to be held here,...
Upside down from the rest of the world, separated by ice, wind and ocean, the frozen continent's is cut off from the world around it, leaving its human occupants separated from their home countries for long stretches...
"RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Penguins from frigid waters near the bottom of the world are washing up closer to the equator than ever before, Brazilian wildlife authorities said Wednesday."
The land “down under” turns out to have been “up on top” just 600 million years ago. A small rock found in Antarctica’s mountains supports the hypothesis that Australia, Antarctica and North America were...
About 400 penguins have washed ashore on Brazilian beaches this year, which experts say is an unusually high number. While it's not uncommon for a small number of penguins to wash ashore in Brazil, their number have...
Diving Medicine - Lesley ThomsonMost of my diving has been in cold water. Not just the American definition of cold water, being anything less than 18ºC, but properly cold! UK winter diving of 5-6ºC for example, or...
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Diving Medicine - Lesley Thomson Most of my diving has been in cold water. Not just the American definition of cold water, being anything less than 18ºC, but properly cold! UK winter diving of 5-6ºC for example,...
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How much do we really know about the history of our world and the migrations of its surface? It now seems that scientists have discovered mineralogical similarities between Antarctica and North America, implying that...
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This is the first time I've seen this done. Pretty cool. Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they posted...
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This makes me just so sad.Penguin numbers are dwindling fast meaning that the world's oceans are in trouble and a species that scientists thought would be relatively safe from the human impacts of global warming are...
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Yes it's them condoms in the South Pole again. My brother is down there right now sitting in the 24 hour darkness making a ton of money, he said he will talk to me again to-morrow! Tomorrow is not until the end of winter, I telt him.
McMurdo Station in the...
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After a case of mobile misuse a teenage Singaporean have been debarred from using mobile phone for one year. " A Singapore man has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year after he was found guilty of secretly filming a woman in an airport toilet, a newspaper...
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The researchers et al at McMurdo Base in Antarctica are the exceptionally delighted recipients of not only 16 boxes, or even 16 dozen boxes - try, 16,500 colorful little (depends who you ask!) joy enhancing...
Remember, it's all for the science."WELLINGTON (Reuters) - One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday."How many is considered a year's supply and...