Earth science

The Butterfly Effect. Illustration: shutterstock

The butterfly effect - in reality

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The Ross Ice Shelf plays an important role in stabilizing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Photo: Agustín Lautaro – Unsplash

What is melting the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica?

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"In terms of the climatic effect, the effect of the pyrocumulonimbus clouds can be compared to the effect of moderate volcanic eruptions." Photo: Eric Neitzel, Wikipedia

the fire clouds

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Animal migration in the Serengeti. Photo: shutterstock

Extinct wanderers

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A forest created in Madagascar for the purposes of agricultural land use. Photo: shutterstock

Forests are cut down and the remaining ones become quiet, due to the disappearance of the animals

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Miners in the Kimberley diamond mine in South Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. Photo: from Wikipedia - public domain

Earth Day: The role of colonialism in the overexploitation of natural resources

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A poster calling for the reduction of sea pollution with microplastics. Illustration: shutterstock

Eating fashionable plastic

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Melhem Cave, the longest salt cave in the world. Photo by Anton Chikishev Anton Chikishev (3)

The longest salt cave in the world was located in the south of the Dead Sea - ten kilometers long

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Walter Munk. He relied less on technology and more on conceptual development, which allowed him to look at problems much more broadly. Photo: Prolineserver, Wikipedia

Einstein of the sea

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Scorched soil in Nahal Garer as a result of Ibera balloons that came from Gaza. The changes in the ecosystem can be long-term, and it is difficult to know yet what the effect of the fire will be in the future. Photo: Angle

More coffee around the sun - the year 2018 is around the corner

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From the right: Prof. Klaus Schilling, Prof. Yoav Shechner and Prof. Ilan Koren. through the clouds

The Technion, the Weizmann Institute and the Telematics Institute in Germany will operate an innovative satellite array based on medical CT technology

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The trash tree, which grows in the deserts of Namibia and is used by the San people (Bushmen) to make arrows. Photo: shutterstock

Arrowhead as a measure of global warming

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A dust storm covers the coastal road near Netanya. Photo: shutterstock.com

Trees against dust

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Pools at the Pamukkale site in Turkey, with travertine deposits. By Josep Renalias [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Travertine - the rock that will allow roads and sidewalks to filter water and prevent flooding

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According to researchers from a university in western China, sidewalks paved with travertine stones will prevent about 50% of flooding, this is because travertine is perforated like a sponge.
The Medicians appear with a frequency of about 1.5 storms per year on average, mainly in the fall and winter months Photo: NASA on Unsplash

A common Mediterranean hurricane

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Sport hunting, once was legitimate, today it is not. Illustration: shutterstock

The sport hunting of a mayoral candidate - legal but immoral

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A woman and child from the Baka tribe in Cameroon. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Protecting forests with the help of native forest dwellers

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Tourists on safari in Kenya. From Wikipedia

The herbivores in Kenya are in danger

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On the right - Antarctica as it actually looks - covered in ice. On the left - a map drawn by the British Antarctic Survey with the help of NASA data of the route of the terrain under the ice. Photo: British Antarctic Survey

Antarctica merged into one plate about 11 million years ago

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For the first time, a model was published that explains supersonic earthquakes

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The eastern Mediterranean, west of Cyprus and east of Crete (the shaded figure on the map), preserves remnants of an ancient ocean.

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is 100 million years younger than what was believed until now

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The ruins of Beit Shan, as a result of the earthquake in 749 AD. Photo: shutterstock

"The segment of the Syrian-African rift in the Kinneret area was quiet for 1,200 years and woke up recently"

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Illustration: pixabay.

Research: The prediction and warning systems against earthquakes are ineffective

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Durbar Square in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, following the earthquake of April 25, 2015. From Wikipedia

The earth shakes and the machine learns

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A comet hit the earth. Illustration: shutterstock

About 12.8 years ago, a comet fragment caused 10% of the Earth's surface to burn

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Damage from the earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Japan, 2011. Photo: US Navy.

Hear a tsunami in the distance

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Bat Galim. The ship with which the research is carried out. Photo: Courtesy of the research team.

What really happens in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea?

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Dado Beach in Haifa. The launched marine station is located in the deep Mediterranean Sea, 50 km from Haifa. Source: David King.

An Israeli research station in the deep Mediterranean Sea

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Hurricane Harvey as seen from the International Space Station. Source: NASA.

How do you cool a hurricane?

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Hurricanes Katia (left), Irma (middle) and Jose (right) as seen from satellites on September 8, 2017. IMAGE: NOAA

Global warming has contributed to the number and intensity of hurricanes

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Volcanic cone at Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Source: United States Geological Survey / GE Ulrich.

to the top

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global warming. Illustration from PIXABAY.COM

Trump is about to announce the withdrawal of the US from the climate agreement in Paris

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The mystery is solved: the sea is really warm

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Africa. FROM PIXABAY.COM

The wildlife people

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Loud and boisterous

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A particularly hot summer in Alaska in 2004 caused the collapse of the permafrost seen in the photograph. Source: NPS Climate Change Response.

Thawing the ice freeze could accelerate global warming

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In order to survive for millions of years, humanity must find ways to protect the Earth. Source: Don Davis.

Questions for the future of humanity: Can the human race avoid extinction?

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3-4 billion years ago, the pH level of the ocean was between 6.0 and 7.5 - something between cow's milk and human blood. Source: pixabay.com.

In the beginning the sea was acidic

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The drilling rig from which the core was mined. Source: Prof. Motti Stein - The Hebrew University.

The Dead Sea records global climate changes in the last 200 thousand years 

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The space station during the photographic mission. Photo: ESA/NASA.

Space disco

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The Sahel region on the map of Africa. From Wikipedia

Bipolar hunger

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The crack in the ice shelf Larsen C. Photo: NASA.

Careful, the ice is broken

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Imprint "Lamelech" on the handle of a pitcher from Ramat Rachel. Photo: Oded Lifshitz.

Scientists: The weakening of the Earth's magnetic field is not a new phenomenon

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The blocks of concrete in New York City will also be preserved and affect the geology of the earth. Photo: Chris Chabot.

Questions for the future of humanity: What geological imprint will we leave behind?

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"Green rust" (left), which was produced in Halevi's laboratory under conditions similar to those that existed in the oceans from the Precambrian period. Electron micrographs (right) show thin, hexagonal-shaped plaques characteristic of "green rust." Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

The mystery of the green rust

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Aviv Lee Cohen-Zada. Photo: Ben Gurion University PR

Ramon scholarship for doctoral student Aviv Lee Cohen-Zada from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for the study of wind bands on the Earth

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Elephant carcasses slaughtered in illegal poaching to sell their ivory. From Wikipedia

vile trade

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The average global warming of 2012 - 2016. Source: NASA.

NASA: 2016 was the hottest year since measurements began

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The bees of the sea

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Volcanic eruption at Mount Sinabung, Indonesia. Photo: yosh ginsu

The forecast: earthquake and volcanic eruptions

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