Since the last ice age, a third of the world’s forests have disappeared due to human activities. The worst was in the 1920s and 1980s, when on average an area corresponding to the whole of South Africa was deforested every decade. But after the 1980s,...
By just changing the structure of the graph a little, it is possible to create electronic components that are much smaller and faster than today’s circuits.Circuits made of silicon have driven the enormous development of electronics that we have seen in the last...
In the 1970s, scientists discovered that freons reacted with ozone in the atmosphere, creating an ozone hole . Following an international agreement in 1989, the use of freons dropped drastically and the hole began to shrink. But then surveys in 2014 showed that...
Earth is a special planet in many ways, not least because it has so much water. Itβs in the ground, forms huge oceans, and itβs in our atmosphere.Itβs also in living things. Your body is made up mostly of water.β But what other facts do you know about water and...
When Pakistan appears in the news, it is often due to terrorist acts, social unrest or some natural disaster. But there is another picture of the country as well. An image where Pakistan still has major problems both politically, economically and socially, but where...
Every population of blue whale has their own unique song and a few years ago scientists heard a new song which could only mean one thing. A never previously documented population of blue whales exist in the Indian Ocean. In December 2020, The journal Endangered...