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According to scientists, the mankind was gripped by fear associated with the pending Apocalypse in December 2012 that can become a cause of irrational fear, phobias, end of the world.

In the hottest for the Northern hemisphere, the days of the planet, it turns out, reaches its maximum distance from the Sun, which is available to its orbitele approaching the peak, the heat grows stronger, and it may seem strange, but now our planet is as far from the Sun.

Increased activity of El Nino was the cause of the extinction of coral reefs in the Pacific ocean approximately 4 - 1,5 thousand years ago - the scenario can be repeated in the near future due to climate change, reinforcing this climatic phenomenon, oceanographers say in the article, published in the journal Science.

With the help of the Japanese vessel for deepwater drilling "Tiko" the researchers plan to reach the fault that caused the devastating earthquake Tohoku last year.

Where the grass grows in Africa, possibly through decades will be standing forest. Growing in the atmosphere concentration of CO2 creates an advantage for trees in the Savannah.

Heat waves with record temperatures around 40 degrees was recorded on Sunday throughout Italy.

Climate change is the litmus test by which easily checked honesty scholars

Needless to fear that the Antarctic ice completely melts? All this has already happened in the history of the Earth. A team of scientists led by Sarah Picins has completed a study which showed that millions of years ago the climate of Antarctica was much warmer than previously thought. The study was based on the study of various biological materials, frozen into the ice of the Ross ice shelf.

Some ancient philosophers believed that the air is the primary element or primary substance. They believed that he is not divided into simpler components. So, the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles taught that the universe is composed of four elements - water, earth, fire and air.

Magnetized bar has two magnetic poles, North and South. The magnetic field of such a block is a dipole, i.e. a field with two poles ("d" means two) . The form can be seen with iron filings. The lines of force of this field are as focused sawdust. Each opielka is a compass needle. It is oriented along the magnetic field, tangent lines of force of the magnetic field.

Earth was formed out of that substance, which was thrown away from the Sun? So it makes sense to start the history of the Earth from the very beginning - from the moment of formation of the Sun. The sun in its current form was formed 6-7 billion years ago. The earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Star - the Sun - from the very beginning was not as it is now. Each star is born, lives and dies. Our modern Sun is a stage in the development of the life of stars.

Two weeks ago, UNEP, the United Nations Programme on environment, has published a very pessimistic report. It says that in the last five years of progress in the implementation of the greater part of the 90 most important environmental projects is practically not observed. Do mankind came close to "the point of no return " " followed by...

If you have been hard to pronounce the name of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajoekull, get ready for a new trial. On Chukotka there is a lake Elgygytgyn, and many scientists call it simply "e".

on June 21, according to the lunar calendar is marked as the Day of the summer solstice. More old name of this holiday is as follows: a celebration of the summer solstice.

People who do not have scientific degrees in the field of the exact Sciences, it is very difficult to understand why in the 21st century from a destructive natural disasters: earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are killed many people, and science still does not know how to predict. But not even to specialists it is clear that the causes of these disasters are associated, and that most of them occur in areas where the ratio of land and sea is constantly changing, and there is a process of continuous transformations of the Earth's crust.