A choker for smokers

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Oceanographers believe that the chimney-like pillars called black smokers found beneath the North Pacific Ocean may hold the secret to the origins of life on Earth. The pillars are formed when super-hot waters seeping out of cracks in the ocean floor mix with the freezing waters of the Pacific.

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El Nino the weathermaker

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The El Nino climatic spasm is considered as the strongest phenomenon to influence the earth's weather. Experts have learned that El Nino is connected to global warming and earthquake activity. They also predict that its duration and frequency will continue to increase.

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The rainmakers

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Issues concerning the possible manipulation of weather by scientists are discussed. Rainfall can be induced or increased by the addition of water-absorbing salts to the atmosphere in minute quantities.

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