Brackish
The salinity of brackish water is intermediate between seawater and fresh waters. Brackish water contains too much salt to be drinkable, but not enough salt to be considered seawater. The oce...
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Oslo (dpa) - A prototype power plant based on the principle of
osmosis is in the works in oil and gas rich Norway, Norwegian group
Statkraft said Wednesday.
S...
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Hundreds of thousands of Indians thronged temples across India on Monday in the belief that statues of Hindu gods were drinking milk.
"I put a milk-filled spoon to Ganesha's mouth and...
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Two whales lost in the Sacramento River encouraged biologists Monday by making progress toward their ocean home, but then abruptly halted their journey at a busy bridge.Unlike the relatively narrow...
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Momoko Takekoshi, a 22-year-old apprentice thatcher, was
kneeling on a 16-meter-high thatched roof belonging to the hall of
the centuries-old Kumano-Taisha shrine surrounded by deep forest in...
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Freiburg, Germany (dpa) - Clean water with free energy is the goal
of German scientists who are using the sun's rays to power small
water treatment plants for developing cou...
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Singapore (dpa) - Nothing is as it used to be on the Carteret
Islands in Papua New Guinea.
Only from a distance does the archipelago appear like a South
Pacif...
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The Everglades are among America's most famous swamps, with a reputation for mosquitos to match.So we bought repellant for a quick trip to view the swamp and its wildlife there last winter. But on ...
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