Space science
The disaster of dam failure in the United States from space
NASA shared photographs from the Landsat 8 satellite documenting the moment of water at the Edenville and Sanford dams on the Tittabawassee River, which flooded Michigan.
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AI - Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence composes songs about the forest fire disaster and the Covid-19 epidemic
Beautiful the World is one of the 13 songs competing in the first song-writing competition with AI, the world's first hosted by radio station VPRO (Netherlands).
Health
How to handle common disasters caused by heat
Severe heat can cause edema, rash, cramps or fainting, exhaustion, and heat stroke. Timely treatment helps effective treatment, health protection.
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Discover UBIM - the new universal assistant of the Russian army
Not only in combat, UBIM is also used to overcome industrial and natural disaster incidents ...
Environment
Hail in Lai Chau damaged more than 1,000 houses
The impact of hail and thunderstorms on the night of March 24 has caused severe damage to some mountainous provinces. Particularly in Lai Chau, the total damage caused b…
Archeology
Mysterious 'spooky black carpet' is full of platinum and glass in the ice age
A mysterious black carpet, a sign of a large-scale fire disaster, found at an ice age site, Younger Dryas, has revealed a terrifying event from space.
New technology
Australia develops satellite to predict forest fires
Following the historic wildfire disaster, Australia said on March 4 that it was building a satellite capable of detecting flammable areas.
Archeology
Discover traces of other humans living in the 'volcanic winter'
Archaeologists have found incredible traces of other human beings who wandered in India 74,000 years ago, now dead by the Toba volcano winter.
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The human brain turns into glass when a volcano erupts near Naples
Scientists discovered fragmented glass fragments in the human skull caused by heat of 520 degrees Celsius in a volcanic disaster in Europe in AD79.
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What can be eaten after a nuclear war disaster?
Scientists from the Alliance to protect the Earth from natural disasters (ALLFED) say what humans can eat in the event of a nuclear war, BusinessInsider newspaper report…
Animal world
Thirteen species could be extinct from the Australian bushfire disaster
Following the forest fire disaster in Australia, 13 species are predicted to disappear forever.
Environment
The carbon emissions from forest fires in Australia are similar to the emissions of Amazon forest fires
Carbon emissions from forest fires raging in Australia are on par with the carbon emissions caused by the Amazon rainforest fire disaster last year.
Environment
The bushfire disaster in Australia comes from numbers
About 1,400 homes in the state of New South Wales were burned down during the wildfire crisis
Environment
Wildfires can change Australia forever
Forest fires are part of the natural rhythm for the environment in Australia. But scientists have never witnessed what is happening.
Environment
The sun 'imitates' the aboriginal flag in the bushfire in Australia
Over the past several days, wildfires have swept Australia. A woman captured the image of the Sun in the fire just like the image on an Australian Aboriginal flag.