An iceberg is a massive chunk of freshwater ice that has broken off from glaciers or ice shelves and floats in open water, primarily in polar regions like the Arctic and Antarctic. Comprising compressed snow accumulated over centuries or millennia, it forms when glacial ice reaches the sea and calves into the ocean. Image source: AWeith / Wikimedia
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As much as many around the world are giving low priority to nature, climate change is real and it has started to cause problems to many all over the world. It is predicted that by the year 2030, the sea level is expected to increase by 4 feet and 5 feet by the year 2050. By then, a number of coastal areas like Klang marked in red are expected to be under the sea. Map source: Climate Central
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One of the more famous doomsday bunkers in the world is the bunker for seeds – Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault that holds more than a million varieties of seeds of food crops and it is protected from natural disasters and the temperature is regulated to ensure long term storage of the seeds. Image source: Wikipedia.
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Red has been the universal colour of fire rescue trucks all around the world whilst yellow or green is the usual colour for fire rescue trucks stationed at airports (as it is more visible in low lights). Image source: Wikiwand
Some of them are capable of carrying up to 17,000 litres of water in the truck. Given the vast types of truck manufacturers and fire fighting equipment suppliers, every country had its unique fire trucks based on the infrastructure and fire fighting missions.
With Netflix as our main source of entertainment these days, one of the favourite series among others has been The Crown which portrays the life of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding in the 1940s until the 1990s and some key moments in history including the Aberfan disaster. Image Source: Scala Radio
Although one accepts that considering it is TV series, some of the events that have happened would have been heavily dramatized. It however does shows the tension and stress that the royalties, namely Prince Phillip and Prince Charles in light of the standing of the Queen.
Read More »World Affairs 101: Lessons To Be Learned, The Aberfan Disaster
(What’s left of MH17 – a tragedy that should not have happened in the first place. Image source: BBC)
I did not believe when I first heard about it. It can’t be true. Someone must have made a mistake. Then the news started to trickle in. It was all gloomy and the outcome did not look well.
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(It may not be the same but the new World Trade Center will bring closure and sense of new hopes for New Yorkers and with a memorial in between, keeping the thoughts of those who perished in the tragedy forever in our hearts. Photo by Thomas Svensson from Pexels)
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The last ice age, often referred to as the Last Glacial Period, began approximately 115,000 years ago and concluded around 11,700 years ago. This period is part of the larger Quaternary glaciation that started about 2.58 million years ago and continues to the present day. The Last Glacial Maximum, which marks the peak of the last ice age when ice sheets were at their most extensive, occurred between 26,000 and 20,000 years ago. Image source: University of Cambridge
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