Unique photos of Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion

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When that metetorite exploded with the force of 20 Hiroshima bombs over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, photographer Marat Ahmetvaleev was out taking beautiful landscape pictures by a frigid -17C and he managed to capture some great shots. Click the link below to see more.

Unique photos of Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion · Russia travel blog.

 

Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

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Something tells me this can’t end well. On the other hand, this may push for new methane-harvesting technologies.

Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.

via The Independent.