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Fourteen autumn themed photos to use as your desktop background. more

The article will introduce you to five of Europe's national parks which are among the most beautiful and at the same time less visited parks full of natural scenery. These parks are home to many species of animals inhabiting mountain habitats or the surroundings of numerous lakes. more

This year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies almost four thousand animal species as critically endangered. These are species that face serious threats and could become completely extinct in the near future. In the following overview we will introduce several of them. more

Low pressure Boris brought torrential rains to Central Europe and caused widespread flooding in many places. Heavy rainfall and strong winds afflict the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria and part of Germany. To date the pressure rampage below Boris has already claimed seventeen lives. more

Fourteen thematic photos that you can also use as your computer background. more

Scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) confirm that the summer of 2024 was the warmest since records began in 1880. All three summer months in the Northern Hemisphere were marked by breaking temperature records. more

Until now, Antarctica has been the only place on the planet that has not been negatively affected by heat waves. Temperatures here on most of the frozen continent remained well below freezing during the winter. Currently when winter reigns in Antarctica temperatures up to ten degrees Celsius higher than they should be have been recorded. The unusually high temperatures were caused by a heat wave in July which could raise temperatures until mid-August. more

In 2022, a huge number of crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea area around Alaska. At the time it was not yet known what caused the massive death. Most scientists now agree that high sea temperatures accelerated the crabs' metabolism at a time when food was scarce leading to their demise. more

Due to the continuous expansion of Tesla's gigafactory near Berlin half a million trees have already been cut down on an area of ​​329 hectares. The controversial expansion of the already large factory is also connected with a number of protests by climate activists. more

During the long summer heat waves that hit Europe the surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea also fell to a record. The year-old record was broken on the fifteenth of August on the Egyptian coast. The sea here warmed to 31.96 degrees Celsius. more

Methane is the second most dangerous gas involved in warming the atmosphere after CO2. While CO2 continues to heat the planet for several hundred years, methane disappears from the atmosphere after twelve years. However the effect of methane is up to eighty times higher than that of a similar amount of CO2. Today scientists are already certain that naturally occurring methane plays a significant role in warming the atmosphere. more

Hundreds of firefighters in Greece have been battling multiple fires that have engulfed the islands of Kos and Zakynthos since last week. In addition, one of the fires began to get dangerously close to the suburbs of Athens where one resident lost his life shortly afterwards. Several firefighters from the Czech Republic and other European Union countries are heading to Greece these days to help. more

Volcanic activity on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula is unusually high this year. The sixth eruption in a row over the last year took place on August 22 and since then it has been sending clouds of sulfur dioxide into the air which reach Europe in low concentrations. more

On Wednesday Australia approved the construction of the world's largest solar farm. As a result up to three million households should be supplied with electricity and supplies to Singapore are also expected. At the moment we are only waiting for the approval of the Singaporean authorities the Indonesian government and the Australian aboriginal communities. After that nothing will stand in the way of the final construction of the SunCable project. more