A novel technique made it possible to establish the temperature inside the Chicxulub crater shortly after the asteroid impact that ended 75% of life on Earth about 66 million years ago.
News by Enzo Campetella
The forecast generated by the Met Office indicates that in 2024 the concentration of CO2 will continue to rise. This year, the El Niño effect will make an additional contribution since natural CO2 sinks will not be able to efficiently capture what is emitted.
Around 500,000 people would have lived on a now-submerged continent off the northern coast of Australia. One study states that this would have occurred in a time that reached its peak around 70,000 years ago. Currently, this surface is approximately 100 metres below sea level.
Although lightning strikes do so mostly on land, a valid question is why it does not kill fish in the sea when it falls there. The explanation lies in the behaviour of electricity on the first levels of the ocean.
A study has shown that accumulated snow on mountains melts faster when it is covered in dust. This problem is now forcing us to develop an evolution in water forecasting models.
The eighth known lava lake was documented on Saunders Island, which belongs to the South Sandwich Islands. Mount Michael rises in the midst of a hostile and extreme climate. A National Geographic expedition was able to climb it and confirm the existence of the lava lake.
Research carried out in Kenya managed to determine that African elephants identify themselves with their own names just as humans do. This pattern is novel in the animal world, although others have special ways of communicating.