Orange haze in California
The 2020 wildfire season on the West coast of the United States was the largest on record.
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The 2020 wildfire season on the West coast of the United States was the largest on record.
The result is the persistence of large forest fires in California marked the emergence of the so-called pyrocumulus clouds.
Drought and wind in Oregon led to a complication of the fire situation, killing two people.
Omphalotus japonicus is a species of mushroom in the cosmopolitan genus Omphalotus.
After a thunderstorm passed in the canadian city of Fort Francis on September 1, something amazing happened to the sky.
On Wednesday, September 2, Gadi Eidelheit from Israel witnessed a "sweet" sunset.
It turns out that spaceships twinkle just like stars. Why is this happening? Look at the image of the ISS that Dutch astronomer Ralf vandeberg took on September 3.
The synchronous flickering of fireflies is a mystery that scientists still can't solve completely. Why and how do thousands of fireflies arrange a "light show"? Do they have a "conductor"?
A huge number of people went to the city of Santa Filomena, which is located in the North-East of Brazil, after pieces of a meteorite began to fall from the sky, resembling a "stone rain".
Yamal is considered a treasure island, which always has something new for scientists. Another huge crater was discovered on the surface of the island.
Specialists of Shushenskiy Bor (a national Park near Khakassia) encountered a unique natural phenomenon: a lot of fish from freshwater reservoirs appeared on the roads after a thunderstorm.
A few years ago, an unusual lake was discovered on the border of the Priluzsky and koigorodsky forest districts, 35 km from the village of Noshul, by employees of the Silver taiga Foundation.