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What's the point of wasps?

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Many times we had wondered why these tiny, annoying, stinging insect even exists. They don't produce anything like their relatives the honeybee. However, they have an extremely environmental role, as scientist says.   It important to say that the wasps, have differet social types, first of all, we have the egg-laying   queen, then the workers, and the ones that bother us are the "social" ones. Social wasps are predators, and control the numbers of potential pests, such as caterpillars and greenfly. They are estimated to consume abount 14 million kilograms of insects per year. They are very useful. Other vital environmental role is that wasps are valuable pollinators, they love sweet liquids mainly the nectar of flowers. This is the reason that why wasps buzz around our heads while we are having lunch in a summer afternoon. Many studies are being made to find out more details on how thet live , how common they are and how the environmental changes affect them. ...
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15 year old got murdered by his facebook boyfriend

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Now a days the social life of someone is entirely created on the internet in web pages like Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, etc. Making friendships without seeing the other person could be very dangerous, because it might turn out that your best friend "John who is 16 years old" real name is Jake and its 30 years old and he is also a bad guy. This happened to a 15 year old chilean girl who got her boyfriend from Facebook thinking that the "boy" was actually a boy. The girl was one day walking to school when a man starts following her and takes her to his house where its said that drugs were consumed by the two of them. Because of this the girl started having seizures ending at the hospital. This happened last tuesday and when she was at the hospital the doctors found out the man also had raped her and sexually abused her so now he is on a temporary prision. Last saturday the girl died at the hospital because of all of this. In my opinion its very dangerous to m...
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CHILE PROTECTS PENGUINS

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Chilean government has rejected plans for a billion-dollar project because it would destroy sea life especially penguins.  Andes Iron a chilean industry had wanted to extract millions of tonnes of iron in the north of Coquimbo but m inisters said the project did not provide sufficient environmental guarantees. The penguins that would have possibly been endangered are the ones form Chile's Humboldt Penguin Reserve. Environment Minister Marcelo Mena said: "I firmly believe in development, but it cannot be at the cost of our environmental heritage or cause risk to health, or to unique ecological areas in the world." Recently a lot of mining companies had a hard time obtaining permits in Chile because of growing interest in the environment from politicians and public opinion. Personally I think it is very good that they do not allow many companies to settle in the north of Chile because it is an extremely important place for the environment. It also cont...
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The US Open

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  The US Open is a very prestigious tennis tournament and it is the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year. It takes place in New York at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and it is  held on outdoor  hard courts .  This year the championship will be from  August 28th to September 10th and it is going to be the  137th edition played.  The tournament consists of both men and women singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles events. There are also singles and doubles events for both boys and girls, players under 18.   Sadly the number two ranked player by the ATP association,  Andy Murray, has pulled out of the US Open two days before the start of the tournament after failing to recover from a hip injury made at the Wimbledon Grand Slam this year.  On a interview Murray said he will focus entirely on 2018. He will not win Grand Slams if he is only 80% fit, and unable to move with...
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HARVEY HURRICANE Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical storm leaves a path of destruction through Texas. Considered as a category 4 hurricane started a few days ago. The winds stopped but the rain kept falling and now the tropical storm is over Texas after leaving a huge devastation along the cost. Texans says that is one of the most powerful hurricane to hit United States in a decade turning into a deadly inland event.  The first fatality was a person that died in a house fire during the storm and a least a dozen people were injured.  Meteorologists says that even Harvey weakened it is expected in this coming days a copious amount of rain which will lead to rising sea levels and flooding coastlines. At this moment the hurricane settled inland but is expected that it will head back to the coastline and interact with the warm waters of the Gulf Coast and there it could re-emerge briefly over the Gulf of Mexico. It's a very bad scenario t...
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7 climbers fall to their deaths in the Alps

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 Seven lives were affected today in the Alps, the most extensive mountain range in Europe. The climbers were not all together, the accidents happened in two different parts of the Alps. In the Austrian Alps, 5 of the climbers, who are said to be German citizens, fell into a glacier near the town of Krimml. Approximately 300 meters as Dr. Egbert Ritter, a trauma surgeon at the AUVA hospital in Salzburg stated.  On the other side, in Italy we have a man and a woman who were climbing the Andamello glacier connected by three ropes in a group of 9 italians from the city of Brescia. The problem happened when some integrant slipped, which dragged down others higher up the slope. Apart from the man an the woman who did not survive, two climbers more were seriously injured.  I think we have to be extremely careful with this type of activities. Seven is a huge number of deaths in one day because of climbing the Alps. Even though you may have guides and a good equipment you are s...
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SURPRISING HEALTHY FOOD Cinnamon is one of the worlds most popular spices enjoyed in numerous dishes. Cinnamon has many benefits, it has been used in medicine to treat respiratory and digestive problems for centuries. Also Acient Egyptians used cinnamon as perfume and Romans used it in funerals.   Nowadays scientists are trying to determine how well its antioxidant capabilities might work for our health. There are two types of cinnamon Ceylon and Cassia that are produced in China and Indonesia. Ceylon is more expensive but is the best for health because Cassia has a compound that can damage the liver. Also it's important the doses of cinnamon consumed because high doses could be toxic in humans. The strongest evidence of cinnamons benefits lies on the fact that cinnamon helps insulin sensitivity and glucose transport while decreasing inflammation so it helps to lower a posible diabetes and high cholesterol.  There have been studies were diabetic p...
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