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 | Environment This section contains articles about science, nature, medicine, anthropology, health and the human spirit. | |
| | | | | |  Austin Mini by The Ovi Team
August 30, 1959; The first "Austin Mini 7" called an Austin Seven from the British Motor Corporation ( Sir Alec Issigonis ) goes on sale for £497 ( first shown on August 14th ) making it one of the cheapest saloon cars available in answer to the | | | |  Hurricane Katrina by The Ovi Team
Aug. 29, 2005; Hurricane Katrina a Category 5 Storm with sustained winds of 145 MPH and gusts reaching 175 MPH is the most destructive hurricane ever to hit the United States. The storm caused massive devastation in and around the city of New Orleans with | | | |  Global Justice and Inequity: Lessons Learned from Bhopal and BP Horizon Deepwater by Newropeans-Magazine
Almost 26 years ago, on the night of 3rd December 1984, Bhopal (India) was enveloped in a poisonous miasmic cloud of methyl isocyanate gas, which gushed forth from the Union Carbide chemical plant. An estimated 4,000 people lost their lives immediately wi | |
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| | |  Deluged and Drowning: The Pakistan Disaster by Binoy Kampmark
Much in what happens in political life is often inexplicable. Events often seem to rhyme to the tune of the absurd, egged on by the inexorable march of folly. And so, even as Pakistan is drowning, the attempt to deal with the insurgents continues. The | | | |  Remembering the Kursk by Binoy Kampmark
A moment to ponder: the cruel deaths of 118 men, who perished with their nuclear submarine ten years ago during naval exercises in the Barents Sea. The tragedy was compounded by that sclerotic response typical of bureaucracies terrified of openness and m | | | |  Cloning food, greed and misery by Thanos Kalamidas
The dilemma is pretty ...tempting. From the one side you have millions starving and anything that could help them and save lives it's worth to try from the other side you have the commercialize science in the name of greed with the starving continue die | | | |  Another brick in the wall by Aakanksha Tyagi
Indian economy and industrialization is growing rapidly. Growth numbers are increasing steadily like a wall rising with every added brick. Fast paced economic growth is leading to increase in urbanization. Towns are experiencing facelift with the booming | | | |  Trans-Siberian completed by The Ovi Team
21st July 1904; Decreed by a Czar, built by thousands of workers over a period of more than a decade, the Trans-Siberian Railway is officially completed. As you'd expect with a project of this size, complexity and scope, "officially completed" is a rel | | | |  Greenpeace's Statement on the Finnish nuclear vote by The Ovi Team
Helsinki, Finland, July 1, 2010: Finland's parliament has lost any connection with the reality, at a time when the current reactor being built at Olkiluoto by French nuclear giant Areva is running at twice the original cost, and rising, and construction | | | |  Ebola Virus by The Ovi Team
27th June 1976; the world's first recorded Ebola virus epidemic begins making its way through the area. By the time the epidemic is over, 284 cases are reported, with about half of the victims dying from the disease. | | | | next | | |
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