Mysteries of planet Earth 2024, May

Despite the cold and incredibly long nights, plants live and thrive even in the arctic expanses, sheltered from prying eyes by a thick layer of ice.You might be surprised if we tell you that there are … forests in the Arctic. Yes, yes, the most real But not simple, but underwater! B

We have written more than once that plastic is a serious threat to life on Earth. Thus, more than half of the inhabitants of the sea and ocean depths, including plankton, feed on microplastics. The world press regularly reports about animals with kilograms of plastic in their stomachs

The melting of permafrost, accompanied by the release of methane into the Earth's atmosphere, caused by global warming, threatens catastrophic consequences for the Russian Arctic, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeev said at the Arctic - Territory of Dialogue forum

And again we are forced to return to the topic of climate and weather change. According to the latest data from NASA, a real anomaly is currently observed in the earth's atmosphere: in one of its layers, the mesosphere, the temperature fell 50 degrees below average, reaching minus 140 degrees Celsius

Those who read weather reports or vacationed in the Tsemesskaya Bay area, not to mention local residents, know that bora is considered the hallmark of the weather features of the southern sea city of Novorossiysk

Scientists have no doubt that the environment is being cleansed as a result of the anti-coronavirus restrictive measures taken.Even the not the most stringent self-isolation regime introduced on Earth in connection with the pandemic demonstrates: the planet is really being cleansed

More recently, scientists said that the establishment of a hot and humid climate in the tropics and subtropics will occur with the planet warming up only by the end of this century. But new data suggests that these changes have already begun, and at once on all continents

Residents of the shores of Lake Erie, located on the US-Canadian border, woke up in icy houses. In just one night, their dwellings were covered with a thick layer of ice. Reported by CNN.According to local residents, the houses were shackled instantly

Faced with the persistent propaganda of environmental avtivists, several dozen scientists, including geologists, geophysicists, astrophysicists, that is, people competent in the field of climatology, perceived it as their civic duty to send a petition to responsible politicians refuting the petition widely disseminated by people who control the media , the version that the scientific community allegedly unanimously links the causes of global warming with human activity

The southwestern regions of China have been hit by harsh weather conditions since March 22 - hail, heavy rains, strong winds and snow. Natural events have caused widespread damage and destruction, especially in Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, according to The Watchers

THE 5 MOST IMPRESSIVE WEATHER RECORDSLet's start with the main thing - with the weather records, which surprised the just ended winter of Russians, earthlings and even penguins.- Salik.biz1. In Moscow, the 2019/2020 winter has become the warmest in all 140 years that the weather is being monitored

Antarctica has long been considered the coldest place on our planet, but now it cannot be called that. It is believed that the average annual temperature on the snow-covered continent should be approximately -57 degrees Celsius. However, on February 6, 2020, a record high air temperature of 18

Rain bomb is a rain bomb, a meteorological phenomenon associated with extremely powerful precipitation, falling sharply and in one place.This phenomenon is directly related to squalls and thunderstorms, but is usually several times more pronounced and leads to destruction on the surface of the earth

The heat wave of Europe has moved to Greenland. Eleven billion tons of ice melted across the country on Wednesday alone, the largest melt this season.While Greenland's ice sheets tend to melt in summer, record temperatures have led to a longer melting season

The "strange" (and this is putting it mildly) behavior of the weather in recent years increasingly makes scientists think about what will happen to our planet next. But major climate-related changes are already taking place. Extreme heat in Siberia has been the cause of fires for several weeks, but temperature increases have been recorded in other regions as well

What was once thought to be the last sea ice to lose its perennial ice sheet in the Arctic Ocean is now melting twice as fast as any ice located in the area.Scientists have released a video showing that the oldest and thickest layer of frozen ocean water in the past 35 years has lost 95% of its mass, which experts say is a "dramatic indicator" of climate change

It may not be as dramatic as melting glaciers, but it could be more dangerous - Earth's permafrost is thawing. In the Arctic and Antarctic, most of the permafrost freezes over thousands of years, and its thickness can reach hundreds or even thousands of meters

A new study by the European Union of Geosciences predicts that roughly half the volume of glaciers in the Alps will be lost between 2017 and 2050. To date, as a result of the analysis, the most detailed forecasts of the state of all alpine glaciers have been obtained

An international team of scientists has shown that large amounts of radioactive particles left over from nuclear weapons tests can be released from the continuing melting of glaciers.Not so long ago, in the journal Nature, new data appeared on the rate of glacier melting

And over the past 30 years, the melting of glaciers on Earth has accelerated, and now they are losing an average of 335 billion tons of their mass annually, which leads to a rise in the level of the World Ocean by almost one millimeter per year

Exploration of the ocean near Antarctica during the winter has helped scientists understand the mechanism of how the continent's ice sheet melts.Much of the research into the ocean near ice so far has been done in the summer, ignoring the winter months when the sea freezes over

The amount of ice in Antarctica is falling rapidly, with the fall occurring from an all-time high to an all-time low. And this fact baffles scientists.As NASA satellites show, the area of drifting ice on the southern continent has steadily increased since 1979, reaching a record high in 2014. But

A team of geologists discovered an unusual mechanism of "self-control" in microbes and plants, thanks to which our planet has not yet turned into an ice block due to the absorption of CO2 by trees and algae

News about the weather has ceased, it seems, to cause the usual smile - they say, again the weather forecasters will cheat, promise one thing, but something else will happen.Increasingly, forecasters' forecasts began to be perceived with caution: well, what else happened?

A breathtaking sight, the secret of which could be revealed.In April 2015, a severe thunderstorm passed in New York, which painted the sky with rainbow colors - many eyewitnesses immediately rushed to photograph this beauty. At the same time, one of the Twitter users, Amanda Curtis, posted on her page a picture with four separate multi-colored arcs at once

As strange as it may sound, the problems associated with global warming, on the one hand, cause an unprecedented resonance in modern society, and on the other hand, few people understand what is happening. To clearly show that these are not just another "horror stories" of ecologists, we decided to collect photographs of alpine glaciers made by caring researchers in the range of 100 years

The American people need to understand that the climate is actually changing, says John McCain. However, not all colleagues agree with his opinion, including US President Donald Trump

Climate change and its causes - one of the most discussed environmental topics in the world

"… We humans on Earth are too small to clear our volcanoes. That is why they are causing us so much trouble."Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince"- Salik.bizYou've probably all seen this type of lightning. An interesting phenomenon! A

If earlier we were frightened with acid precipitation, now scientists have reported that plastic is waiting for us in addition to everything else. Moreover, they are already running in almost all places on our planet. This was reported by ecologists from the University of Utah, who conducted research in several areas of the United States

Did you know that lightning can be found in the ground? This is called fulguritesSee how they look …- Salik.bizFulgurites (Engl Fulgurite.) - hollow tubes in the sand consisting of silica melted and fused on the surface of the rock outcrops, formed by the action of lightning. T

Even Wanga, together with Nostradamus, could not foresee such a sharp reduction in man-made carbon dioxide emissions due to the pandemic. There was a reduction, which even Greta T could not dream of, but the fighters against global warming do not know how to do anything but calls, therefore they argue that "In 2020, the planet will begin a large-scale famine

Another pandemic, similar to the spread of SARS-COV-2, may arise from an imbalance in the ecological balance, for example, the deforestation of the Amazon, said Brazilian ecologist David Lapola.According to him, due to the fact that people are increasingly invading animal habitats, the number of zoonotic diseases will grow

If the world gets two degrees Celsius warmer, we are doomed

Fascinating beauty of Siberian nature There is an absolutely amazing place in Russia, more reminiscent of the border of another, unknown world from fantasy books

The Yakuts living on the banks of the Vilyui River have a legend about incredible events that took place in these places many centuries ago. According to legend, in ancient times from a certain metal pipe, which was underground, from time to time a pillar of fire burst out

Every 405 thousand years, the Earth's orbit lengthens slightly due to the gravitational influence of Jupiter and Venus, which changes the planet's climate and affects the development of life on it, including leading to mass extinctions

Tall cliffs, an absolutely solid wall stretching along the right bank of the Lena for four tens of kilometers

Rumors about the presence of precious stones on the territory of Yakutia and the neighboring western lands began to appear at the beginning of the 19th century

Velva remembers "nine worlds, and nine roots, and the Tree of Limit has not sprouted yet." The nine worlds of Scandinavian paganism are: Asgard, Ljösalfheim, Midgard, Niflheim, Muspellheim, Vanaheim, Jotunheim, Svartalfheim and Helheim ("The Prophecy of the Velva")