It is difficult to imagine that such an impressive nature phenomenon as a waterfall can stop, especially if we are talking about the largest representative of geographical wonder - Niagara Falls.
Yet, amazing things happen: on March 29, 1848 the legendary cascade froze for more than 30 hours. The reason for that was huge ice jams formed in Erie Lake, where Niagara River origins.
Surprised by a mysterious silence, the local inhabitant noticed failure of iconic attraction –even thoughts of doomsday came to his mind. The man walked to the river and found that it turned into a thin stream, which could be easily stepped over. Higher up the river he saw that the source was blocked by ice. Frozen dam was pierced next day only, and then the river rushed back to its usual route.
Another unique event took place on January 10 this year: due to 20-degree frost that grabbed the North America, Niagara Falls froze over. Its boiling waters turned into giant icicles, and a kind of ice bridges appeared in some places between two banks. Nevertheless, the waterfall did not freeze completely.
Near the volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii, on the 17-th of September the scientists finished an investigation that imitated the Mars lifestyle for the participators.
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.
In natural park of Oregon state the wreckage of a part of cliff happened that broke a structure from sandstone of unusual form. Then, the reason has become identified. Particularly, the unique geological formation was deliberately broken by the tourists.
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.
