The amount of oil that is on the disaster on the platform “Deepwather Horizon” leaked into the sea beyond, even the estimates. About 700 million gallons of oil have leaked from the well control.
This is 10 times more oil leaked, as the 1998 disaster of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez. ” The details of the escape of oil since the beginning of the explosion in April revised upwards. At first...
German researchers reported in Nature, that the frequency of polar cyclones will halve by the end of the century. The formation regions of the polar lows are moving at the same time further north. This should be one of the few cases in which climate change makes for less rather than more extreme weather events.
Polar lows are small-scale storms, which occur in high-latitude oceans and tropical cyclones are...