The abandoned military equipment factory in Ukraine

The political, social and economic instability of Ukraine is today probably the most relevant subject of the world agenda. As the news emerge, the world gets to know a little better, this former Soviet, and their desperate struggle to emancipate â€" still â€" of its influential giant neighbor.

With tensions spreading in the Crimea, was in Kharkiv, 30 kilometres from the border with Russia, which the photographer Pavel Itkin, only 18 years, found a real military tanks cemetery â€" more than 400.

This military warehouse, until now secret, was "eerily deserted" last week, when Pavel managed to sneak in. The young Ukrainian looking for this place for months, after receiving a tip from a friend, but only now managed to find him.

The vehicles here are fried and the factory, once powerful, is automatically closed. The warehouse has tanks of years 60 and 70. "I searched this site for months. I received a tip from a friend and I realized it was a great place to take pictures. The area should be kept, but no one was there when I arrived. I was lucky, "explained the young.

During its heyday, between 60 and 70, the Kharkiv factory repaired more than 60 tanks and 55 engines per month. Despite the production having fallen enough after the fall of the former Soviet Union, in 1991, the factory never closed officially.

What will be the impact of this military cemetery in the environment of the region? See some of the pictures.

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How do you start a controlled avalanche?

The avalanche control is the process of using explosives to, as its name makes clear, the trigger. The aim is to increase the safety of skiers and climbers, among others.

In Stevens Pass, Washington, responsible for controlling avalanches decided was time to act once, in less than two weeks, the mountain have won 3.3 feet of snow.

The explosives reached the mountain via helicopter, having so commenced the awful avalanche.

After calculating and initiating a controlled avalanche, these responsible filmed the process. See it here.

If she had formed naturally, who was around wouldn't survive to tell the tale, most likely.

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Protected marine birds of the Mediterranean are increasingly ingesting plastic

The pollution produced through the plastic is increasingly affecting marine ecosystems and can have multiple harmful effects according to a recent study, in addition to the marine animals, seabirds in the Mediterranean also are ingesting plastics.

Often, turtles, marine mammals and birds, now also ingest plastic pieces accidentally â€" because they confuse the plastic objects with potential prey. These fragments can injure or obstruct the digestive system of these animals or release toxic chemicals, which have harmful effects on animal health of the marine ecosystem of the Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean Sea is a location prone to risk caused by plastics due to large industrial areas located on the coast of the region.

This study is the first to analyze plastic ingestion by seabirds in the Mediterranean. Researchers collected approximately 171 animals that were accidentally caught in nets of fishing boats and eventually die, between May 2003 and June 2010, along the Catalan coast and the East coast of the Mediterranean. In total, nine different species were collected. The birds were dissected and the contents of stomachs was collected and analyzed.

The results indicate that 113 birds, about 66 percent, had at least one piece of plastic in the stomach. The average size of the fragments was of 3.5 mm and had an average weight of 2.26 milligrams. Pieces of bottles or plastic boxes were traces most frequently found, followed by bags and packaging.

The Atlantic Cory's Shearwater-Atlantic was the bird most affected, with about 94% of the animals collected accusing the ingestion of plastics. The three worst affected birds by eating plastic belong to the list of species at risk.

Foto: epSos.de/Creative Commons

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Cancer can be detected with a test similar to that of pregnancy

Early detection of cancer is crucial to save the lives of patients. However, the disease diagnostic tests are not accessible to thousands of people due to high costs. To combat the rise of the disease in developed countries, the engineers from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are developing a cancer diagnostic test that uses urine and indicates the result within minutes.

The test, which is similar to conventional pregnancy tests, uses synthetic biomarkers that dispenses with the use of specialized equipment and expensive. Before carrying out the test, the patient receives an injection of nanoparticles that join tumor proteins, producing biomarkers that indicate the presence of cancer in the human body.

Although the new cancer detection technology has not yet been approved for human use, the results conducted in the laboratory were positive, referring the Inhabitat. The team of researchers from MIT, who is now working for that technology could be commercialized, expects the diagnostic test is soon on the market and that could prevent thousands of deaths per year due to late diagnosis of the disease.

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Giant bubbles of fresh air can be solution to Chinese pollution

Record pollution levels recorded in the large cities of China have served to stimulate the creativity of policymakers and architects and designers when it comes to finding innovative solutions to combat or minimise the effects of pollution.

One of these innovative solutions was proposed by a workshop of architects Londoners, the Orproject, who proposed the creation of giant bubbles full of pure air in Beijing. These inflatable bubbles would have parks and botanical gardens that would produce pure air. The bubbles would be built in a microlight structure resembling the wings of a butterfly with veins of leaves.

The system would use a material known as ETFE, the same that was used in the construction of the Olympic Aquatic Center for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. This transparent and malleable plastic could be used to create giant bubbles that then would allow the passage of sunlight at the same time protect the inhabitants of Beijing of high levels of pollution.

Christoph Klemmt, founder of Orproject, believes that this biome can create different microclimates within the same space, referred to in Inhabitat. The heating and cooling of giant bubbles will be made through a heat exchange system and energy requirements will be supplied by solar panels integrated into the structure.

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More United Kingdom sustainable House will be destroyed

Matthew Lepley and Jules Smith, a British couple, took five years to build more green house United Kingdom and now will be forced to destroy it. The couple didn't ask for permission to build the House and refuses to ask, since, in accordance with their moral convictions, the process requires a lot of paper and energy, that challenges their ecological principles.

The couple moved from the apartment he owned in London in 2009 for Devon, looking for a more sustainable life. During the time when they built the House, Matthew and Jules lived in tents. As a means of livelihood, lived on agriculture. The dwelling was built with muscular strength and most of the material was reused. The House has no electricity, running water and the bathroom runs through a composting system.

"We wanted to build a House that would allow us to live in communion with nature. We used recycled materials, an AX to chop wood and hand tools to assemble the structure, "says Matthew Lepley. "The construction process was a little slow but very rewarding. We wanted to reduce carbon emissions as much as possible. The plans for the House were changing over the years, according to our needs. The heat from a stove that heats the water for the bath. We don't have electricity but use paraffin lamps and candles. This life is not for everyone, but we love.

Following the refusal of the couple in obtaining the license, the municipal authorities notified them that "removed" the House. "We took the decision to build the House without permission because the procedure of autarky is no friend of the environment and goes against our personal values," explains Lepley.

Initially, the neighbors supported the couple's lifestyle, but when they discovered that the intention was to turn the place into a kind of retreat, with workshops in Permaculture and green engineering, many of the inhabitants were against and launched a petition for them to be expelled.

Matthew and Jules already appealed against the decision of the local authority for the destruction of the House and now await the decision of a second appeal.

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The Aurora Borealis as we have never seen

Yesterday, the British Sky was overrun by red and green lights, a fantastic spectacle of the Aurora Borealis â€" a phenomenon typical of the regions of the Arctic and Antarctica. According to British media, the regions of Norfolk, Essex, South Wales, Cumbria and Scotland were the privileged by the northern lights.

Many of these photos were taken by meteorologist Chris Bell and placed on Twitter. Bell says he saw the lights at 8:0 pm yesterday at his home in Foxley, Norfolk.

"There is a thing called the solar wind, which are electronically charged particles and it takes between two and three days to arrive. When they do, that these gas atoms in the sky begin to shine. It's as simple as this ", explained to the BBC Mark Thompson, of Stargazing Live.

Countries such as Canada or the region of Alaska are some of the other privileged to see, on a regular basis, this Aurora Borealis. In the United Kingdom, he took place for the first time in twenty years. See some of the pictures.

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