For millennia, humans have viewed the northern and southern lights – aurora borealis and aurora australis – and created myths and folklore to explain the dancing lights they saw in the sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/legends-folklore-myths-northern-southern-lights-auroras…
Tag: Scandinavia
Pesticides and industrial pollutants found in snow atop Arctic glaciers
The long journey of these compounds – likely originating in the U.S. and Eurasia – shows the far-reaching impacts of industrial pollution. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/pesticides-industrial-pollutants-found-atop-arctic-glaciers…
With the Most Deaths In 150 Years, Sweden Reveals New COVID-19 Test-and-Trace Strategy
AleRunner writes: In the first half of 2020, Sweden has recorded its highest death total in 150 years. “In total, 51,405 Swedes died in the six-month period, a higher number than in any year since 1869, when 55,431 people died, partly as a result of a famine,” reports The Guardian. In what may be a reaction to this failure, which makes…
Mysterious Spike In Radioactivity Over Northern Europe, Accident At Russian Nuclear Plant Suspected
An anonymous reader quotes the International Business Times:
Watchdog agencies last week detected an increase in radioactivity levels in the atmosphere over northern Europe, suggesting a potential damage at a nuclear plant. Authorities noted the possibility that the spike may be the result of accidental release of radioactive material from one of the nuclear plants in Russia, but a spokesman denied any…
Mysterious radiation spike detected over Scandinavia
Experts have said that a slight spike in radioactivity above northern Europe likely originated in Russia, but Russian nuclear plants in the area deny any abnormalities. Source: https://www.livescience.com/spike-in-radioactivity-detected-above-europe.html
Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State
Sweden’s population is not quite twice the size of Norway’s — yet Sweden has reported 21 times as many deaths from Covid-19, prompting many countries to close its border to Sweden, reports the New York Times:
Norway isn’t the only Scandinavian neighbor barring Swedes from visiting this summer. Denmark and Finland have also closed their borders to Swedes, fearing that they would…
January 2020 was Earth’s warmest on record
January 2020 was the planet’s hottest January in the NOAA global temperature dataset record, which dates back to 1880. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/january-2020-warmest-on-record-for-globe…