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When the supervolcano wakes up and is it possible to avoid a catastrophe
(ORDO NEWS) — In December 2022, four volcanoes erupted almost simultaneously: in Italy, Hawaii, Indonesia and Kamchatka. Thousands of people were evacuated from dangerous areas. Experts say there is no cause for concern yet. These fire-breathing mountains cannot cause a global cataclysm. A really serious threat is the activity of supervolcanoes. In 1815, Tambora volcano erupted in Indonesia. One of the most dangerous volcanoes Amazing footage in December was filmed by eyewitnesses during the eruption of the Fuego volcano in…
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Environmentalists warn of risks of environmental catastrophe due to ship graveyard in Rio de Janeiro
(ORDO NEWS) — A ship graveyard in Guanaraba Bay near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is threatening an environmental disaster. This was stated by representatives of the local movement Movimento Baia Viva (“Living Bay”). According to environmental activists, there are several dozen ships in Guanaraba, some of which have already sunk. Dozens of tons of fuel oil remain in the tanks of abandoned boards. The last incident in the bay occurred in mid-November 2022, when during a storm the 200-meter…
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Elon Musk warned of a worldwide catastrophe
(ORDO NEWS) — According to American billionaire Elon Musk, the world is heading towards a global catastrophe amid escalation in all regions of the globe. About what and why can happen, the businessman wrote on his Twitter account. For an analogy, Musk took the anecdote about the goldfish. According to the American, the fish promised the old man any wealth for freedom, but warned that the neighbor would receive twice as much. And then the fisherman asked her to gouge…
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A catastrophe is brewing in Alaska’s newly formed lakes, and scientists are concerned
(ORDO NEWS) — Lakes appearing in Alaska due to melting permafrost are “releasing” methane into the atmosphere, said a scientist working with NASA. These lakes, called thermokarsts, are so full of climate-damaging gas that you can see it escaping to the surface. There are more and more of these lakes as permafrost melts in Alaska due to rising temperatures and more wildfires, according to a 2021 study. NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) project is studying their impact on climate…
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Scientists have determined what provoked the world’s largest climate catastrophe
(ORDO NEWS) — About 252 million years ago, the world was going through a turbulent period of rapid global warming. To understand its cause, scientists drew attention to one specific event, when a volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia released a huge amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. However, there is evidence that the climate was already changing before that. In the hundreds of thousands of years preceding the Siberian eruption, the sea surface temperature increased by more…
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UN climate catastrophe can be stopped now or never
(ORDO NEWS) — The time has come “now or never” to limit the catastrophic increase in temperature and climate disruption, the UN experts said in the latest warning to governments. An analysis of their report is published on Live Science. “Fast, deep and immediate” reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions, which should start falling by 2025 and halve by 2030, must be implemented immediately across all sectors of society if we want to keep temperature changes at or below a…
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Terrible story of Io a planetary catastrophe every two days
(ORDO NEWS) — Imagine what would happen if our atmosphere suddenly freezes and crashes to the ground. Most likely, this will mean the instant death of all life on the planet. Represented? But for Io, Jupiter’s moon, it’s just a weekday Tuesday. In a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research: Planets , the researchers announced that they had discovered a strange pattern on Io’s surface (the record holder for the highest volcanic activity in the entire solar system). The…
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Ingenious system to pulverize Asteroids may be Earth’s only chance in a Catastrophe
(ORDO NEWS) — Gazing at the night sky can evoke a sense of wonder regarding humanity’s place in the Universe. But that’s not all it can evoke. If you’re knowledgeable about asteroid strikes like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, then even a fleeting meteorite can nudge aside your enjoyable sense of wonder. What if? Luckily, planetary defense is at the top of mind for some scientists and engineers. One of those scientists is Professor Philip Lubin from the…
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American geologist predicted a repeat of the 500-year-old catastrophe in the Middle East
(ORDO NEWS) — American, Italian and Saudi scientists have discovered evidence of an ancient underwater landslide and associated tsunami in the Gulf of Aqaba in the northern Red Sea, which could serve as a warning to many countries in the Middle East. An article about this was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Sam Purkis, lead author of the article, professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geology at the University of Miami, during an expedition aboard the…
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Can the Moon fall to the Earth, and how likely is such a catastrophe?
(ORDO NEWS) — The Moon has been a close satellite of the Earth for billions of years, and although our idea of its shape and size changes somewhat as it orbits our planet, the Moon is always present in the sky. But what happens if one day this changes? In the 2022 film Moonfall, a mysterious force is knocking the Moon out of its orbit and pushing it into a collision with the Earth in just a few weeks. If…
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Ecological catastrophe passed the point of no return in 2014
(ORDO NEWS) — Climate researchers warn that extreme heat in Earth‘s oceans passed the “point of no return” as early as 2014, reports The Guardian. This is new evidence that highlights our path to climate catastrophe – or rather, that we are already living in that catastrophe. “Using this measure of extremeness, we showed that climate change is not something uncertain that could happen in the distant future – it’s a historical fact that has already happened,” Kyle Van Houtan,…
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Technogenic catastrophe of Ancient Rome: the collapse of the amphitheater in Fideni
(ORDO NEWS) — During the reign of the emperor Tiberius (November 16, 42 BC – March 16, 37 AD), in 27 AD. e., there was the largest man-made disaster in ancient Rome . In Fidena (a city not far north of Rome), a wooden amphitheater collapsed. According to the ancient Roman historian and writer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, more than 20,000 people died under the rubble; the ancient Roman historian and writer Publius Cornelius Tacitus wrote about 50,000 killed and maimed.…
