Antarctica burned with forest fires when dinosaurs roamed Earth, says study

2021-10-30T08:31+0200menafn (en)

- BreezyScroll) When we think of Antarctica, we think of unending ice sheets and also cute-looking penguins. It’s difficult to imagine anything other. Antarctica is a barren wasteland with little vegetation and few animals. Can we even envision dinosaurs moving around in Antarctica amid massive....

Extreme weather: the worrying consequences of climate change ahead of Cop26

2021-10-29T23:57+0200telegraph (en)

In August the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said July had been earth’s hottest month since records began 142 years ago. To pick the month of June as an example, this year the contiguous US and North America as a whole, the continent of Africa, and individual countries including....

Un murale creato con le ceneri delle foreste bruciate in Amazzonia: l’opera “denuncia” dello street artist Mundano

2021-10-29T10:25+0200ohga (it)

Un viaggio di 10mila chilometri attraverso quattro biomi dello stato del Brasile , per raccogliere due quintali di cenere prodotta dagli alberi bruciati nella foresta amazzonica. Il fine non è solo quello di ristrutturare un edificio di San Paolo, ma quello di mandare un messaggio forte e....

Antarctica's lush forests were hit by a massive fire that raged 75 million years ago

2021-10-27T17:27+0200thetimeshub (en)

Dinosaurs flee from a wildfire in Antarctica/Maurilio Oliveira. When dinosaurs roamed the Earth and Antarctica was covered in lush rainforest, wildfires raged across the southern continent. What Antarctica looked like tens of millions of years ago. During the Late Cretaceous ( 66-100 million years....

Paura in Brasile: potenti tempeste di sabbia avvolgono lo Stato di San Paolo, almeno 6 morti [FOTO e VIDEO]

2021-10-08T11:41+0200meteoweb (it)

Mentre il Brasile sudorientale sta affrontando la peggiore siccità degli ultimi 91 anni, almeno 6 persone sono morte nello Stato di San Paolo nelle ultime settimane a causa di tempeste di sabbia. Enormi nubi di polvere, con venti fino a 100 km/h sono state viste almeno 3 volte dalla fine di....

Brazil’s Amazon records least September fires in 20 years

2021-10-04T00:49+0200qnewshub (en)

The number of fires in Brazil 's Amazon during September dropped to the lowest for the month in two decades, according to data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research. September is historically Brazil's worst month for forest fires and, while the data is positive, environmental....