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ENVIRONMENT - February 2016

Feb 2016

Jun 30, 2018

International Day of the Tropics

International Day of the Tropics is a United Nations observance held annually on June 29. Its main goal is to raise public awareness of the tropical areas, the challenges they face, and the emerging opportunities they present.

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the equator. They are located between the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere and the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere.

Jun 28, 2018

Loss of Forest in 2017

According to new data from a global satellite survey, the world lost more than one football pitch of forest every second in 2017, adding up to an area equivalent to the whole of Italy over the year.

The scale of tree destruction, much of it done illegally, poses a grave threat to tackling both climate change and the massive global decline in wildlife. The loss in 2017 recorded by Global Forest Watch was 29.4m hectares, the second highest recorded since the monitoring began in 2001.

Jun 27, 2018

Coldest Place on Earth

Scientists announced in 2013 they had found the lowest temperatures on Earth's surface: Sensors on several Earth-observing satellites measured temperatures of minus 93 degrees Celsius (minus 135 degrees Fahrenheit) in several spots on the East Antarctic Plateau, a high snowy plateau in central Antarctica that encompasses the South Pole. But the researchers revised that initial study with new data and found the temperatures actually reach minus 98 degrees Celsius (minus 144 degrees Fahrenheit) during the southern polar night, mostly during July and August.

Jun 24, 2018

150 Million Years Old Turtle Fossil Discovered

A turtle fossil dating back 150 million years to the Jurassic Period has been found in southwest China`s Chongqing municipality.

Paleontologists from the municipal exploration bureau confirmed it was a fossil of a snake-necked turtle from the Jurassic Period.

Jurassic turtle fossils were previously found in Chongqing and in the neighbouring Sichuan province, but it is the first time that a snake-necked turtle fossil was found in the area.

Jun 22, 2018

Rising Bedrock Could Slow Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting

An international team of researchers has found that the bedrock below the remote West Antarctic Ice Sheet is rising much more rapidly than previously thought, in response to ongoing ice melt.

The study, "Observed rapid bedrock uplift in the Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability," reveals new insights on the geology of the region and its interaction with the ice sheet. The authors noted that the findings have important implications in understanding and predicting the stability of the ice sheet and Earth's rising sea levels.

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