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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103576/46/1035764630.png" width="309" height="303" alt="The Atoyac River, which crosses eight municipalities in the central mountainous area of eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, disappeared overnight after a giant crack opened up." title="The Atoyac River, which crosses eight municipalities in the central mountainous area of eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, disappeared overnight after a giant crack opened up." class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160304/1035764409/mexico-river-dries-up-overnight.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>12:03 04.03.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">12:03 04.03.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/latam/20160304/1035764409/mexico-river-dries-up-overnight.html">Into the Hole: River Dries 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class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>8</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>8143</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160302/1035668023/iran-tree-history.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103566/88/1035668835.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Sarv-e Abar Kuh" title="Sarv-e Abar Kuh" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160302/1035668023/iran-tree-history.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>17:39 02.03.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">17:39 02.03.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160302/1035668023/iran-tree-history.html">Peer of the Pyramids: World’s Second Oldest Tree Lives in Iran</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160302/1035668023/iran-tree-history.html">Sarv-e Abarkuh, the second oldest tree around, grows in the town of the same name in Iran’s central Yezd province.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160302/1035668023/iran-tree-history.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>4</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>3580</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160302/1035649274/beijing-cars-ecology.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103105/93/1031059362.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="A man wearing a mask walks along a road in heavy pollution in Beijing on December 1, 2015" title="A man wearing a mask walks along a road in heavy pollution in Beijing on December 1, 2015" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160302/1035649274/beijing-cars-ecology.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>14:00 02.03.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">14:00 02.03.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160302/1035649274/beijing-cars-ecology.html">Beijing to Take 200,000 Cars Off Streets in 2016 to Improve Ecology</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160302/1035649274/beijing-cars-ecology.html">The Beijing city authorities plan to take about 200,000 private cars off the streets of the Chinese capital in 2016 in an effort to lower the level of air pollution, local media reported Wednesday, citing the head of Beijing’s Environmental Protection Bureau, Fang Li.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160302/1035649274/beijing-cars-ecology.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i> 0</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>107</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160229/1035549408/green-energy-oil-gas.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103554/89/1035548961.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Eemmeerdijk" title="Eemmeerdijk" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160229/1035549408/green-energy-oil-gas.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>21:25 29.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">21:25 29.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160229/1035549408/green-energy-oil-gas.html">Investment in Green Energy Soars Amid Slumping Oil Prices</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160229/1035549408/green-energy-oil-gas.html">Green energy investment rose 7 percent to $367 billion last year amid turmoil in the gas and oil market, a report released Monday showed.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160229/1035549408/green-energy-oil-gas.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>1</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>203</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160229/1035505895/australia-allocate-fiji-aid.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103514/99/1035149926.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="City workers clear fallen trees from a road in Fiji's capital Suva after Cyclone Winston swept across Viti Levu Island, February 21, 2016." title="City workers clear fallen trees from a road in Fiji's capital Suva after Cyclone Winston swept across Viti Levu Island, February 21, 2016." class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160229/1035505895/australia-allocate-fiji-aid.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>05:28 29.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">05:28 29.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160229/1035505895/australia-allocate-fiji-aid.html">Australia to Allocate Some $15Mln to Help Fiji Recover From Cyclone</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160229/1035505895/australia-allocate-fiji-aid.html">Australian government will allocate Fiji $15.1million to help the Pacific nation to recover from tropical cyclone, the Australian High Commission based in Fijian capital of Suva said in a statement Monday.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/asia/20160229/1035505895/australia-allocate-fiji-aid.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i> 0</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>108</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160228/1035481332/tetraquark-collider-discovery-new-particle.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103548/48/1035484846.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="X(5568) decays via the strong interaction into a Bs0 and pi+ mesons. The Bs0 meson decays into a J/psi and a phi meson, and these in turn decay into 2 muons and 2 kaons, respectively" title="X(5568) decays via the strong interaction into a Bs0 and pi+ mesons. The Bs0 meson decays into a J/psi and a phi meson, and these in turn decay into 2 muons and 2 kaons, respectively" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160228/1035481332/tetraquark-collider-discovery-new-particle.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>12:59 28.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">12:59 28.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160228/1035481332/tetraquark-collider-discovery-new-particle.html">It's a Tetraquark: Scientists Welcome New Particle Into the World</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160228/1035481332/tetraquark-collider-discovery-new-particle.html">Physicists have announced the discovery of a new particle that contains a different number of quarks from particles they have seen before.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160228/1035481332/tetraquark-collider-discovery-new-particle.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>4</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>2415</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160227/1035424950/paho-issued-new-zika-guidelines.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103436/57/1034365750.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Zika virus mosquitoes" title="Zika virus mosquitoes" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160227/1035424950/paho-issued-new-zika-guidelines.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>00:36 27.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">00:36 27.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160227/1035424950/paho-issued-new-zika-guidelines.html">Int'l Health Officials Issue New Guidelines to Diagnose Zika Infections</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160227/1035424950/paho-issued-new-zika-guidelines.html">New guidelines to confirm Zika infections using a new algorithm to differentiate that virus from other mosquito-borne illnesses were announced by PAHO.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160227/1035424950/paho-issued-new-zika-guidelines.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i> 0</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>72</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035388001/asteroid-explode-nuclear-earth.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103224/24/1032242486.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="This artist's rendition released 20 April, 2005 by NASA shows a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun" title="This artist's rendition released 20 April, 2005 by NASA shows a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035388001/asteroid-explode-nuclear-earth.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>14:32 26.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">14:32 26.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035388001/asteroid-explode-nuclear-earth.html">Asteroid-Fighting Russian Scientists Come Up With New Way to Save the Earth</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035388001/asteroid-explode-nuclear-earth.html">Scientists at Tomsk State University in Siberia have modeled a new method of destroying asteroids that might hit the Earth.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035388001/asteroid-explode-nuclear-earth.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>5</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>5563</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035371189/japan-help-zika-virus-fight.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/103436/57/1034365750.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Zika virus mosquitoes" title="Zika virus mosquitoes" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035371189/japan-help-zika-virus-fight.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>07:17 26.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">07:17 26.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035371189/japan-help-zika-virus-fight.html">Japan to Allocate $1 Million to Help Fight Zika Virus Outbreak</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035371189/japan-help-zika-virus-fight.html">Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has announced that the Japanese government will allocate $1 million in emergency aid to help Latin American countries tackle the Zika virus outbreak.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/environment/20160226/1035371189/japan-help-zika-virus-fight.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i> 0</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>125</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160224/1035279780/saudi-water-shortage.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/102018/19/1020181986.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="sand dunes" title="sand dunes" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160224/1035279780/saudi-water-shortage.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>17:53 24.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">17:53 24.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160224/1035279780/saudi-water-shortage.html">Dead in the Sand? Saudi Arabia Running Out of Water</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160224/1035279780/saudi-water-shortage.html">Saudi Arabia may suffer a major environmental disaster within the next thirty years as the kingdom’s unsustainable and extravagant use of water is rapidly depleting the country's nonrenewable groundwater reserves, Business Insider news portal reported.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160224/1035279780/saudi-water-shortage.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>12</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>4457</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/news/20160224/1035237249/radioactive-mosquitos-by-drone-in-brazil.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn3.img.sputniknews.com/images/103076/50/1030765004.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="This photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ) shows a feeding female Anopheles stephensi mosquito" title="This photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ) shows a feeding female Anopheles stephensi mosquito" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/news/20160224/1035237249/radioactive-mosquitos-by-drone-in-brazil.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>01:10 24.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">01:10 24.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/news/20160224/1035237249/radioactive-mosquitos-by-drone-in-brazil.html">Nuclear Mosquitoes to Fight Zika Virus in Brazil</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/news/20160224/1035237249/radioactive-mosquitos-by-drone-in-brazil.html">IAEA to release sterilized radioactive mosquitoes by drone to fight Zika virus.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/news/20160224/1035237249/radioactive-mosquitos-by-drone-in-brazil.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>4</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>1875</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160223/1035234942/radioactive-contamination-state-of-washington.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/101592/04/1015920405.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="A sign warning of radioactive contamination" title="A sign warning of radioactive contamination" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160223/1035234942/radioactive-contamination-state-of-washington.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>23:49 23.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">23:49 23.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160223/1035234942/radioactive-contamination-state-of-washington.html">Radioactive Contamination from Nuclear Waste Site Spreads in Washington</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160223/1035234942/radioactive-contamination-state-of-washington.html">EPA alarmed by uncontrolled exposure risk in Hansford, Washington.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/us/20160223/1035234942/radioactive-contamination-state-of-washington.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>8</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>2975</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/world/20160223/1035232307/asteroid-fireball-atlantic-ocean.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/103523/29/1035232946.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Asteroid" title="Asteroid" class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/world/20160223/1035232307/asteroid-fireball-atlantic-ocean.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>22:01 23.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">22:01 23.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/world/20160223/1035232307/asteroid-fireball-atlantic-ocean.html">Armageddon 2.0? Huge Fireball Explodes Over Atlantic Off the Brazilian Coast</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/world/20160223/1035232307/asteroid-fireball-atlantic-ocean.html">Each day, the Earth is bombarded by 90 tonnes of cosmic debris. The delicate blue floating ball that we call home is constantly under siege by an array of asteroids, comets, and defunct satellites crashing towards us all like a hell-fire missile gone astray.</a></span></div><div class="b-stories__counters"><div class="b-counters m-counters-white "><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/world/20160223/1035232307/asteroid-fireball-atlantic-ocean.html#comments" class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_comments"><i></i>8</a><span class="b-counters-icon b-counters-icon_view"><i></i>5587</span></div></div></div></li><li class="b-stories__item"><a class="b-stories__img" href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160223/1035208791/uk-zoo-gorilla-birth-cesarean.html"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305015538im_/http://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103520/85/1035208582.jpg" width="309" height="303" alt="Baby gorilla born at Bristol Zoo Gardens after rare Cesarean section." title="Baby gorilla born at Bristol Zoo Gardens after rare Cesarean section." class=""></a><div class="b-stories__info"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160223/1035208791/uk-zoo-gorilla-birth-cesarean.html" class="b-stories__info-link"></a><div class="b-stories__upd">Last update: <span>14:34 23.02.2016</span></div><span class="b-stories__date">14:34 23.02.2016</span><div class="b-stories__title"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160223/1035208791/uk-zoo-gorilla-birth-cesarean.html">Hello Baby! Endangered Gorilla Born by 'Rare' C-Section in UK Zoo</a><span class="b-stories__announce"><a href="/web/20160305015538/http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160223/1035208791/uk-zoo-gorilla-birth-cesarean.html">A rare baby gorilla has been born by cesarean section for the first time at Bristol Zoo, UK. 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