Mysteries of planet Earth 2024, April

Champ Island - a small island in the central part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago, administratively assigned to the Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region

From time to time, stone balls are found in the most remote corners of the Earth. Their diameter ranges from a few centimeters to 3 m, and their weight ranges from several hundred grams to 16 tons. These spheres are a headache for scientists: is there a connection between them?

Our planet is full of miracles. We all know about the great pyramids of Egypt. About stone idols of Easter Island. About mysterious drawings in the Nazca desert. And many other beautiful and inexplicable phenomena can be found in various parts of the Earth

There are many mysterious places on earth, the cause of which has not yet been established. Among them is the Russian island of Champa. It is included in the travel program for the Arctic region and is very popular with tourists.- Salik.bizWhere is Champ Island?

Mysterious artifacts are found in various regions of the planet, and our vast country is no exception. Mysterious caves and passages in the ground, ancient artifacts and strange structures, the nature of which is not entirely clear, if not completely covered with centuries-old secrets

Remains of volcanoes? Strange erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange areas.Ever since these mysterious spherical objects were found in the village of Mokraya Olkhovka, Volgograd Region, they have been surrounded by legends and mysteries

Huge stone balls found near Volgograd (Russia), put the researchers at a dead end, What are these - giant dinosaur eggs or a message from an extraterrestrial civilization?- Salik.bizThe Volgograd region of Russia is becoming a real Mecca for researchers of the unknown

Very interesting findings of scientists have already been mentioned in various sources. So on January 17, 2003, a message appeared that after some mysterious object flew over the taiga, very small balls of unknown origin were discovered during excavations

Tract ToryshThe valley of stone balls or the Torysh tract, as the Kazakhs call this place, is located at the northern tip of western Karatau, near the Shetpe village in Western Kazakhstan.- Salik.bizA large number of spherical stones are collected here, scattered over a large area

Ralph Sydney, one of the researchers of stone balls in the jungles of Costa Rica, when a certain aborigine began to claim that he had seen with his own eyes how “these round stones crawl on the ground and even fly low”, said: “I don’t believe, but this is that balls in the mornings and evenings release moisture abundantly, as if crying, there is no doubt! " There

Stone balls. It is easier not to notice them, or to come up with some kind of story in the likeness of ancient stone money or something like that.- Salik.bizStone balls in Costa Rica were found in the thirties of the XX century by workers who cleared the jungle for banana plantations

This is not the first time people have heard strange sounds in the sky, somewhat similar to the sound from a jet plane, but in all cases there were no planes.The latest incident took place in central Austria in the Alps at about 1200 meters above sea level, when Richard and his wife heard an incredible roar coming from the sky

Scientists have identified a bacterium in a plastic landfill that can degrade polyurethane. This could be a step towards large-scale recycling of plastic waste, which is now difficult to recycle. However, according to experts, the industrial use of the bacteria will not be possible soon

Biologists from Irkutsk State University, together with colleagues from the University of North Florida (USA), studied the metabolism of Baikal actinobacteria, large microorganisms capable of synthesizing biologically active substances. It turned out that they lack genes for the enzymes common for this group, which are responsible for the production of antibiotics

Dangerous bacteria that until recently lived in the warm waters of the World Ocean, in particular, in the Gulf of Mexico, have expanded their habitat to the north. The reasons scientists say are climate change and an increase in sea water temperature

A trillion different bacteria live on the surface of human skin - this collection of microorganisms is called the microbiome, and it protects the body from the external effects of allergens and other external irritants. Sometimes this natural defense layer can break down, leaving people susceptible to infectious diseases

The Gulf Stream carries masses of warm Atlantic water from the Caribbean to Europe. Therefore, winters here are not as cold as in North America at the same latitudes. Palm trees on Britain's southern coast would be unthinkable without the Gulf Stream

The first part is here: Genetic engineering of stone: frame construction of mountains or how the stone dough ripens.Stone genetic engineering laboratories are found all over the planet and each uses a different approach and principles. There are even ancient settlements based on these natural energy structures

A research center is being set up at the University of Cambridge to work on radical ways to combat global warming.Supporters of geoengineering - that is, artificially influencing the environment in order to combat global warming (see “Ideas”) - are considered to be a kind of climatic marginals, inventing things that are inadmissible from the point of view of serious scientists. How

It was a pleasant sunny day on March 3, 1876 in Bath County, Kentucky (USA). The farmer's wife, Mrs. Crouch, was working outside and making soap when she suddenly saw something shapeless and bright red falling from the sky to the ground.The pieces plopped on the ground with a juicy sound and, looking closely, the woman realized that this was raw meat, and not particularly fresh

Residents of the city of Engel Vale, Australia, are very worried that hundreds of Corella parrots have begun to die. They are on people straight from the sky.Sarah King, who works for a wildlife rescue organization, says a huge number of parrots of this species could die in the next few weeks

Shikhan Mountain in the Pokhvistnevsky district of the Samara region, near the village of Bolshaya Yega (Yaga!) Is undoubtedly an anomalous object and the place around it is also not without "devilry"!The first oddity that catches the eye of a first-time visitor here is that there is no paved road to the Big Yaga

The magnetic north pole continues to move from Canada towards the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago at a speed of 55 kilometers per year. Scientists suggest: a change of poles is being prepared due to unrest in the liquid part of the planet's core, inaccessible to direct observations

The picturesque Boyko mountain range, whose gentle southern slopes look towards the Grand Canyon, has long attracted the attention of not only archaeologists, but also lovers of everything unknown. But at the same time, this mysterious place still remains little-explored, keeping in its stone heart the secrets of distant antiquity

Our planet is fraught with many mysteries and on its surface there are huge "scars" and "wounds", which are of great interest for scientists and lovers of learning the secrets of the Earth

Few people know, but on our Earth there is the deepest point, to which only three managed to descend. A place that is fraught with a thousand mysteries and is not subject to science. To date, only 5% have been studied. The article will not be filled with creepy stories related to the inhabitants of this mysterious place, it is already amazing

In 2002, mysterious green spherical objects appeared on the ocean coast near Hampton, Virginia, on the east coast of the United States. They were about the size of a golf ball and were soft like a sponge. There were a great many such "balls" and with each tide it became more and more, the entire local beach was simply strewn with them

Right at the bottom of the Cenot Angelita in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, there is an incredible underground river. This extraordinarily beautiful natural phenomenon is due to the presence of hydrogen sulfide. Heavier than salt water settles on the bottom of the river, forming a separate layer and forming a full-fledged underwater river

The Blue Hole Belize Expedition 2018 has completed its mission to explore the bottom of the Great Blue Hole, the second largest karst cave in the world. The cave is located in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize

In the desert area of Nevada (southwestern USA) there is a hole in the ground, and in it - - underground reservoir. It has not yet been possible to measure its depth, despite all attempts

A strange place. America is famous for its amazing places. There you will find beautiful skyscrapers and wonderful landscapes. But now this is not the issue. In addition to the wonders of civilization, here you can see natural wonders, for example, the Devil's Hole

This happened in the Himalayas in 1966. A Russian scientific expedition discovered several ancient stone structures with unusual signs. Trying to decipher the mysterious images, the researchers made an interesting discovery

XXI Century. It would seem that with the help of modern scientific achievements, people are able to solve any secrets of natural phenomena occurring on our planet. But this is far from the case. We bring to your attention one of these riddles

The mysterious green glow of worms living at the bottom of the Atlantic in the vicinity of Bermuda turned out to be the product of a unique set of genes that has no analogues in the genomes of all other living things on Earth

A resident of Australia saw unusual elongated objects in the trees next to a neighbor's house. The light brown "fruits" looked like exotic fruits, and also like "alien cocoons" from science fiction films

The mysterious circles in the Kasley area were noticed a few years ago. Then the members of the Ural branch of the "Cosmopoisk" movement accidentally stumbled upon them, studying satellite images of the surrounding forests. The two concentric circles associated with the famous "crop circles" could easily be mistaken for a UFO landing site

Scientists from Switzerland have concluded that trees can inherit information that helps them adapt to changing environmental conditions.- Salik.bizHow does the knowledge transfer process take place?Trees react to any changes in the environment: if drought occurs, they strengthen their root system, and in response to high humidity, they increase the volume of foliage

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of primitive trees in the north of the United States, whose age is estimated at 386 million years. ScienceAlert writes about this.The fossilized remains of trees date back to the end of the Devonian period, when the first land vertebrates and primitive tree plants appeared on Earth

California's giant sequoias are one of the symbols of America. The lifespan of these trees is 4000 years. In 1850, with the beginning of the "gold rush", the massive deforestation of these forests began. 95% of the sequoias were destroyed, the trunk diameter of which averaged 3 meters

Have you ever wondered why we have so few old trees? An 800-year-old Grunwald oak in Kaliningrad, an oak growing in Chuvashia, which is 480 years old, a plane tree in Dagestan, 700 years old - there are about 20 long-lived trees in our country