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Joe Biden, the elected president of the USA. Photo: depositphotos.com

Summary of 2020 in the environment: not only Corona

Following the Corona, we were destined to face new challenges that had a great impact on the person and the environment: instead of personal meetings, we switched to meetings on Zoom and other online platforms, we traveled the country and avoided social gatherings and wore masks everywhere we went. Will 2020 also be the year that dictates the way for significant changes in the public's attitude to environmental issues?
An exercise by the Home Front Command, among other things in preparation for rescue following earthquakes, Karmiel 2017. Photo: shutterstock

Drilling at the bottom of the Dead Sea records 220,000 years of earthquakes

The eruption of the Tongorhua volcano in Ecuador, 29/11/2011. Photo: shutterstock

Things Yoram knows: what calms the volcanoes?

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Naama Erzi asks: Why do volcanoes stop being active?
Fire in California. The cumulative damage of the fires was about 16.5 billion dollars. Photo: Andrea Booher/FEMA

The crossroads of the insurance industry

The American Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, NOAA, estimates the extent of damage from natural disasters caused by climate change or extreme weather between the years 2020-1980 at approximately 1.8 trillion dollars. Insurance companies can no longer ignore the climate crisis
The autonomous research vessel Milefour. IBM Photo

The autonomous ship has set off

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IBM and Peru Mare's autonomous ship MAYFLOWER is expected to cross the Atlantic Ocean to collect environmental data
Damage after the earthquake in Tahiti in 2010. Photo: UN Photo, Logan Abassi

Can animals warn of earthquakes?

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A new study tried to check whether animals can actually sense earthquakes before they happen and whether this can be used to prepare for an emergency ahead of time
Herds of animals in Africa. Photo: COLOMBO NICOLA/Shutterstock

Economic nature conservation

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Michael Lazar and Naama Sherid (University of Haifa) install the sonar device on the boat in the Sea of ​​Galilee. Photo: Luca Gaspirini

The first geological map of its kind of the young copies in the Sea of ​​Galilee marks the places prone to earthquakes

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Measurements from the floor that collapsed during the burning of Jerusalem during the destruction of the First Temple. Photo: Shai Halevi, Antiquities Authority

The Earth's magnetic field tells the story of the destruction of the First Temple

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.climacell - Accurate local weather forecast. PR photo

ClimaCell's accurate weather insights will be combined with SupPlant's agronomic capabilities to help farmers in India and China

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An infographic illustrating the geological periods and the major extinctions in between. Illustration: shutterstock

Assessment: Huge emissions of C02 from volcanic activity caused a mass extinction of species about 200 million years ago

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A NOAA expedition examines the melting of the ice in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2005. Photo: NOAA

Oceans on high heat

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The balance of precipitation in the Mediterranean region as of January 2012, brown shades show a decrease in the amount of water compared to the average of the years 2002-2015 in the Mediterranean region in centimeters. The data from Levin GRACE – a joint mission of NASA and the German Space Agency. Photo: NASA/Goddard

The Mediterranean climate is getting drier as a result of global warming

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The pyramids at Giza as seen from the banks of the Nile. Drawing courtesy of the Wellcome Gallery, from Wikipedia

The future of the Nile following an agreement between Ethiopia and Egypt on filling a dam upstream

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A display illustrating the danger to animals in the sea as a result of the plastic waste that fills the sea, at the Natural History Museum of Berlin. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The biggest "predator" in the oceans

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Mangrove forests. A means of preventing seawater flooding. Photo: shutterstock

Nature against climatic disasters

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The coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat. Photo - Ilan Melister, Ministry of Environmental Protection

The coral reef in Eilat is still withstanding the rising sea water temperature, the question is until when

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Fisherman's Wharf at the "Virgin" beach, Kiryat Yam. Right: You can see the expansion of the beach over the years. On the left: according to a local phenomenon of sand accumulation from the north and increased erosion from the south of the "Virgin" pier, the significant flow component was identified - from north to south

Who moved my beach?

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Foam waves to the shores of the Baltic Sea. Photo: shutterstock

What was the temperature of the water in the ancient ocean?

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Wilson facility - for waste collection in "Plastic Island". PR photo

Clean the plastic from the sea - take 2

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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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