Natural disasters 2024, April

Due to the abnormal winter, according to forecasts, the taiga will burn even more than last year.Last year's catastrophic fires in Siberia may be repeated. And turn out to be even more disastrous. The international business publication Bloomberg warns about this

On one of the most famous islands in Italy, in one seaside town, very strange things happen. From time to time, without finding out the reasons, ordinary household appliances begin to flash, moreover, they are disconnected from the power supply at that moment

If our global climate change catastrophe remains uncontrollable, vast parts of the world are likely to become tougher and much less hospitable to humanity.When that happens, there will be an even greater rift between the global haves and have-nots, as many people are left without the means to escape the worst effects of the climate crisis, according to a new UN human rights report released on Tuesday

The nature of the strange phenomenon that happened almost a thousand years ago was able to determine.Almost a millennium ago, a giant cloud of sulfur-rich particles entered the Earth's atmosphere. This darkened the sky for several months or even years before the particles settled on the ground

Global warming and melting of glaciers is one of the pressing problems of mankind today. The gradual melting of the ice in Antarctica, Greenland and Antarctica and the thermal expansion of water can lead to an increase in sea levels. Scientists have calculated that over the past 30 years, 42% of the rise in sea level has been contributed by thermal expansion of water, 21% melting glaciers, 15% melting ice in Greenland, 8% - melting ice in Antarctica

10 - 20 volcanoes show volcanic activity on our planet every day. It is not always a creeping hot lava, and clouds of ash billowing upward - a terrible view of an erupting volcano. Often this is little and little activity for the planet. But what happens on Earth if all volcanoes go off at the same time?

Many experts predict an unenviable future for large cities in the coastal zone. By the end of our century, they believe, these cities will be submerged as a result of global warming and rising sea levels.They made such a conclusion after analyzing the information collected by satellites over the past 25 years

Legends about the Flood are found among very many tribes and peoples of Africa, Asia, Europe, America. We, Europeans, are most familiar with the biblical myth with its ark of Noah, where all the creatures were taken in pairs. But at the beginning of the 20th century, clay tablets from the time of ancient Sumer were found, in which the salvation of the Sumerian hero Ziusudra from the waves of the global flood was described in almost the same words

Modern man will no longer associate fire-breathing mountains with evil spirits, but to this day, the grandeur of volcanic phenomena fascinates and attracts people's attention. Scientists with a high degree of certainty divide volcanoes into extinct and active: how many times a volcano that was considered extinct suddenly began to act

The capital of Russia is Moscow and the Northern capital is St. Petersburg … The two largest cities in our country, which are considered the main Russian centers. But both of them, judging by the legends, are covered with terrible curses.Most of us have always thought that there is no place more ordinary or trivial than Moscow or St. P

More than a billion animals have died as a result of the ongoing wildfires in Australia, the University of Sydney press service said, citing the study.Professor Chris Dieckman has found that more than 800 million animals have been victims of fires in New South Wales, and the total death toll in the country has exceeded the billion mark

The story of the great flood, which was supposed to be a punishment for the atrocities of angels and humanity, appears not only in the Christian Bible, but also in many other religious texts, including Sumerian, Indian and even Native American legends

In a country like India, there are several variants of the Flood myth. During excavations in the famous Shanidar cave, archaeologists discovered traces that clearly indicate large-scale floods. This discovery was the most important for ardent supporters of the reality of the World Biblical Flood

With the outbreak of the epidemic in China and against the background of the events that are now being prepared in Syria, many of our readers note in the comments that life has become like a movie, like a real blockbuster.Unfortunately, we are forced to correct this opinion a little, since it is not a blockbuster that unfolds before our eyes, but an epic disaster film with elements of fantasy and horror films

Now a very popular topic about the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been erupting for a month, photographs and videos show how lava rises from under the Earth through cracks in the asphalt and spills along the roads, and it's very good that there are no victims - - only destroyed

A giant piece of molten rock, 750 km long, rises from the bowels of magma right below the supervolcano's vent.According to the latest data, published on August 3, from below, right under the caldera of the Yellowstone supervolcano (and its area is almost 900 thousand hectares

Found the cause of the massive Permian extinction.The massive Permian or Great Extinction happened about 252 million years ago. It became the largest in the history of the Earth. At that time, 4 percent of marine inhabitants and less than a third of land animals remained alive

Four environmental activists were arrested by Brazilian police after ransacking the offices of the NGO Projeto Saúde e Alegria / Health and Happiness (PSA). They were accused of deliberately setting fire to rainforests in the Amazon basin. Volunteers helped put out fires in northern Pará state. H

Deciphering mitochondrial DNA shows that about 70 thousand years ago, the human species almost disappeared from the face of the Earth. The population dropped to about ten thousand individuals. Traces of similar events are found in the genomes of East African chimpanzees, South Asian tigers and orangutans

Hurricane season has arrived in the Atlantic. The Americans have not yet moved away from Harvey, and hurricane Irma is already moving west across the Atlantic. It has already reached the islands of the Caribbean and is likely to hit the American continent by the end of the week

Global warming is gradually warming up the atmosphere of our planet, which is why glaciers all over the world are melting gradually and inevitably. But what if they all completely turn into liquid water in just one night?As you know, 99% of all freshwater ice on Earth is located in the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica, which gradually thaw from year to year

55 million years ago, the temperature on our planet rose sharply. This has become one of the most dramatic examples of climate change. The world could never be the same

Scientists have solved the mystery of the fallen trees on the opposite bank of the Bureya River, where a landslide came down from the hill - they were blown away by a tsunami up to 40 meters high after the ground fell, the chief researcher of the Institute told RIA Novosti on Friday

This tragedy happened in Iran on February 3, 1972. It all started with a light snowball, which even made the residents happy. They were delighted with the snow. And then … a strong wind suddenly started and everything was covered with white fog. A

The famous French avalanche researcher Pierre Monsan describes the impressions of a man caught in an avalanche in Chamonix in the Alps. “My partner and I worked to fix the mid-slope lift support

The catastrophe that changed Khakassia erased all evidence of a person's life over seventeen thousand years old. The flood is comparable in scale to the breakthrough of the largest dam, only more powerful once in fifty

Scientists have discovered in Antarctica the bottom of an ancient sea at a depth of two kilometers; if the ice shelves "propping up" the ice on it begin to melt rapidly, a huge layer of ice could slide into the ocean and raise the water level, the article says

The ocean level by the end of 2100 may rise by a meter, but St. Petersburg is relatively safe because the land underneath is rising, a leading researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute told RIA Novosti, one of the authors of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Change Climate (IPCC) Alexey Ekaikin

Rising sea levels will affect more people than previously thought by 2050 and threaten several of the world's largest coastal cities, according to recent research. The authors of the work, which is published in the journal Nature Communications, developed a more accurate way to calculate sea level rise and found that previous figures were too optimistic

The farmer shared an image on the web showing the "face of the devil" emanating from the smoke of wildfires in East Gippsland. According to Craig Calvert, who posted this photo, the face apparently appeared from the smoke in the fire.- Salik

Wildfires in Australia are so widespread that they can be seen from space. Satellites that are thousands of kilometers from the Earth's surface can easily detect flames and smoke from fires. While the fire may have been caused by natural causes, experts believe that anthropogenic climate change has exacerbated the already arid conditions conducive to new fires

These days, many are following the situation that has developed in the Irkutsk region, where they overflowed the banks of the river - tributaries of the Angara by 10-14 m and flooded villages and small towns. Private buildings in the small town of Tulun have been partially washed away

The rising sea level due to the melting of glaciers by 2100 will lead to flooding, flooding and erosion of the coastal regions of the Mediterranean Sea, - this conclusion was made by scientists at the University of Kiel in Germany

Vltava - river with character. Encased in granite in Prague, she seems peaceful, lazy and calm. But when it overflows with water, it fully justifies its name - "wild water" (this is how the word "Vltava" is translated)

In a few decades, the world ocean level may rise by 5-10 cm, which will cause a doubling of the number of floods in the Pacific islands, in San Francisco (USA), Mumbai (India), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Abidjan (Cote d ' Ivoire ) and other tropical regions

Underground internet cables crossing coastal regions will be flooded by ocean level rise over the next 15 years, according to new research

Geologists from the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø have figured out the rate of ice melting in Europe. The "great flood" is referred to in their Quaternary Science Reviews article. Henry Patton is one of the lead scientists in this study

Even the old-timers did not remember such bad weather in Hamburg. Not a single chronicle of the last century recorded it, it is quite possible that nothing like this had happened before

In connection with the recent research by scientists on global climate change on Earth, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed alarm and called on the member states of the Organization to take urgent measures to prevent cataclysms

In 1980, there were half as many natural disasters in the world as in 2013. Such a frightening discovery was made by scientists from the Scientific Advisory Council of European Academies