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Amazing “Giants’ Causeway” in Northern Ireland People have paved millions of roads, but nature has surpassed them here too, creating a unique “Giants’ Causeway”. This extraordinary road consists of 40,000 interconnected flat basalt pillars which appeared as a result of an ancient volcanic eruption. The road begins at the foot of a cliff in the North of Ireland, a few kilometers from the town of Bushmills, and goes straight into the sea.
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Not sure what the source is, but it is useful data anyway. Here comes the number of days with temperatures below 0 per year.
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Ice needles instead of snow. Did you know that sometimes, instead of ordinary snowflakes, real ice needles can fall from the sky? These are small and very sharp ice crystals that can even cut the skin. They are formed from solidified water droplets and are usually found in Siberia and the Far North.
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Sometimes we can see a brightly shining circle around the Sun, the Moon, or even an artificial light source (for example, a lantern). This natural phenomenon is called “halo”. It appears because of the refraction of light in ice crystals in the upper atmosphere at an altitude of 5-10 km.
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Icy underwater bubbles are one of the most curious natural phenomena. In the Canadian province of Alberta, there is Lake Abraham, which is known among scientists and nature lovers because of an unusual phenomenon: a large number of ice bubbles that have frozen under water. These fantastic circles are actually made up of methane bubbles.
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In Italy a glacier was covered with tarpaulin to protect it from melting. In the northern Italy, environmentalists are right now trying to cover the Presena Glacier in the Alps with tarpaulin. Long-term observations say that since 1993 the glacier has already lost more than a third of its area and the situation is getting worse.
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