Trees close to a giant military communications antenna in Michigan have grown more quickly since broadcasts from the antenna began in 1986, report forestry researchers. They claim that low frequency electromagnetic fields have a similar effect to traditional fertilisers
A 60-year-old Northumberland man suffocates when freak weather causes a drop in air pressure. This drop was responsible for sucking carbon dioxide out of a disused coal mine and into the surrounding countryside where the man was walking
A herd of elephants, intoxicated after inhaling alcoholic fumes, smash through a house in the Midnapore district of West Bengal and trample a man brewing moonshine to death
Strange smells, described as a mixture of rotten eggs, manure and industrial waste, spread across the Southeast of England. Dutch pig farmers, who keep effluent in huge slurry ponds on the other side of the English Channel, ...
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