Day: November 4, 2017

NYT: the melting of Antarctic glaciers is accelerating So in October from the Pine Island glacier broke the array, four times exceeding the area of Manhattan island. NEW YORK, November 4. /Offset. TASS Igor Borisenko/. Two of the largest glacier on the coast of Antarctica to quickly slide into the Amundsen sea, and in the case that they will eventually melt, Global sea level for several hundred years will increase by almost a meter. With such a forecast made by the newspaper the New York Times, which published a series of satellite photos showing the edge of the glacier Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites glacier Glacier over the past two years. In August 2015 from the Pine Island glacier broke off a large iceberg in April of this year at the ice array deep crack appeared in October from glacier broke ice massif, four times exceeding the area of Manhattan

Heroes or fools? The Japanese are pilots kamikaze During world war II, thousands of Japanese pilots volunteered to become pilots of the bombers, breaking in the fight against the enemy their planes to the glory of the Emperor. 70 years later, the correspondent Bi-bi-si Mariko OI asked the question: what heroes the kamikazes of yesteryear mean for today’s Japanese youth? Irrational, heroic, and stupid — so three young people in Tokyo answered a question about his attitude to suicide bombers. “Heroic? — said Sanpei, hearing the answer his younger brother Sho. — I didn’t know that you were so right-wing views”. These numbers are difficult to confirm, but it is believed that three or four thousand Japanese pilots deliberately crashed their planes, attacking the enemy. It was thought that only 10% of these attacks were unsuccessful, but the actions of the suicide bombers managed to sink about 50 ships of

Kakadu threatened the flow of Internet Australians The Australian national broadband network (NBN Co), to spend on the construction of fiber optic cables in the country $36 billion, was suddenly faced with a formidable enemy — cockatoo. Jeltuhay these birds have long been known to Australian farmers for their omnivorous. Cockatoos not only destroy crops, but also sharpening their beaks on the wooden window frame. However, now feathered like the cables that are paving companies serving telecommunications towers, according to Investing.com. “They constantly sharpen their beaks and as a result, attack and destroy everything that gets in their way. Unfortunately, these birds attracted our cables,” — said one of the employees of NBN Co. Biologists say that the cockatoos are not attracted to artificial materials, they prefer to sharpen their beaks on the tree. In this case, according to experts, the birds react to the color or location of the