According to the scientists, the glaciers Bøyabreen, Supphellebreen, Haugabreen and Bødalsbreen have shrunk in size to such an extent that it is no sense in further investigations.
« We are dependent on measuring directly at the blue ice at the front of the glacier but that has gradually become more difficult due to the retreat of the glacier and deposition of snow from avalanches», it is stated in the proclamation of higher senior officer of Norwegian museum of glaciers Pål Gran Kielland. - «The part of the glacier we get data from now looks like a pile of snow».
Norwegian Glacier Museum, a joint venture of International Glacier Society, the Norwegian Energy and Water Directorate, the Norwegian Polar Institute, and three universities annually has measured glaciers Bøyabreen and Supphellebreen (since 2003 and 1992, respectively).
The engineer of the Norwegian Energy and Water Directorate Hallgeir Elvehøy who studied two other glaciers in the interview to the television company NRK reported that encountered the same problem: « It’s sad. Measurements on Briksdalbreen, for example, started in 1899. The glaciers are further back than they have been for an awfully long time. You’d have to go back to the Viking times, or 2,000 years back to find a climate as warm or glaciers as small».
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Protected environmental zone with the square of more than 1.5 million square kilometers will be located in Ross Sea. The agreement has been signed by European Union and 24 more countries, including Russia.
Since 1907 the population of mammals, fishes, birds, amphibia and reptiles has reduced by almost 60%, as it is said in the report of World Wild Nature Fund.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
At the beach Legzira located at the Atlantic coast of Morocco, there was a wreckage of one of two stone arches that used to be the famous sightseeing of the country. The Guardian reports about that.
The delegates of the conference of Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) happened in Republic of South Africa voted for prohibition of international trade in African gray parrots.
The efforts of zoologists, ecologists and significant financial expenses that have been invested in the program of salvation of ounce brought their fruits. Particularly, the predator has been seen more often by the citizens of several provinces of Afghanistan that ounce preferred choosing as its habitat.
The largest in the world kind of apes from the genus of gorillas, particularly, Eastern gorilla residing within the territory of Democratic Republic Congo is on the edge of extinction because of the illegal hunting.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
The experts of travel web-portal Travelbird.nl has defined that the cheapest beach in the world is situated in Vietnam. Cua Dai is located in popular among travelers city Hoi An in the central province of the country Quảng Nam.
The list of UNESCO World Heritage that connects the most significant landmarks of the planet either man-made or natural is reviewed annually. This year at the 40-th session of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee which ended in Istanbul on the 20-th of July, the list included 21 sites more.
