Category: Weather and Climate
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Mount Tambora and the ‘Year without a summer’
Introduction On April 5, 1815, as the sun was about to set and twilight was approaching, a massive explosion shook the island of Java in Indonesia, then under British control. Fearing an enemy attack, military vessels were dispatched from Java as well as Makassar on Sulawesi Island, about 800 km northeast of Java. Strangely, these…
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Climate change set to impact global timekeeping
Climate change is predicted to have an impact on various aspects of life. Warmer temperatures changing weather patterns, rise in sea levels in some parts of the world are just a few examples of the same. While changes in sea levels are predicted to impact low lying island states like Maldives and Kiribati, earth’s rotation…
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