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China is going to make its own rain (and it’s not without controversy)

China is going to make its own rain (and it's not without controversy)

China’s largest freshwater lake has turned into an arid plain. There is even a record drought in the south of the country. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture wants to do everything in its power to avoid bad harvests. The Chinese must therefore save water and the country will make its own rain using a controversial method. rain By manipulating the …

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With this food you age healthily – Wel.nl

With this food you age healthily – Wel.nl

Your whole body benefits from a healthy diet, including your brain. But what can you take to keep your brain healthy? The best Belgian neurologist Steven Laureys lists fourteen foods. “Nuts, fruits and vegetables, fish, whole grains, and olive oil positively influence healthy aging, both physically and mentally,” says neurologist and author Steven Laureys. to the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste …

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Weather presenters back Hungarian colleagues after being fired for ‘bad waiting’

Weather presenters back Hungarian colleagues after being fired for 'bad waiting'

“My name is also under the letter,” says meteorologist Maurice Middendorp from Buienradar. “Our business is made up of uncertainties and we try to determine the best possible forecast with all the weather models. It is possible that an expectation does not come true, but that is not a reason for rejection. “Expectations were good” Middendorp believes that the Hungarian …

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De Haan fled Suriname with his wife and children

De Haan fled Suriname with his wife and children

Paul de Haan, director of the Suriname Aviation Company (SLM), fled Suriname with his wife and two children on Tuesday. Despite a travel ban via French Guiana with an Air France flight to Paris left. Waterkant learned that the director had already sent his driver to the head office on Monday to collect his personal belongings. According to reliable sources, …

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Return the ‘looted’ Rosetta Stone, a famous Egyptian archaeologist asks again

Return the 'looted' Rosetta Stone, a famous Egyptian archaeologist asks again

Zahi Hawass in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza.Image Davis Degner/Getty Images The polished fragment with inscriptions in two languages ​​is considered the most famous piece of rock in history: the Rosetta Stone. A piece of dark granite just over a meter high, found in the Egyptian sands in 1799, with chiseled text in Egyptian hieroglyphics, but also in …

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Swiss glaciers have more than halved since the 1930s

Swiss glaciers have more than halved since the 1930s

The Rhone Glacier in Switzerland.Getty Images This emerges from a new Swiss reconstruction, appeared this week in the magazine The Cryosphere. Although there have been periods when the glaciers have shrunk back a bit, the trend is generally for an acceleration in retreat, according to scientists from the ETH Zurich Institute of Technology and the Swiss government. Although researchers have …

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‘Trump withheld over 300 confidential documents’ | Abroad

'Trump withheld over 300 confidential documents' |  Abroad

These would be documents from the CIA, NSA and FBI, among others. The US Department of Justice has not previously announced that 150 confidential documents the former president had to hand over when he left the White House a year earlier have been found in the 15 boxes Trump turned over to the National Archives. of the United States in …

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rivers dry up in China due to record drought

rivers dry up in China due to record drought

APE ONS News•yesterday, 9:08 p.m. China also faces extreme drought and heat. The ongoing drought is already breaking records and no rain is forecast at this time. High temperatures are expected to continue through September. The Yangtze, the third largest river in the world, has dried up in some places. Due to the low water level, hardly any electricity can …

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