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Temperatures in Tatra Mountains hit record low in July
While most of Poland sweltered in temperatures of over 30°C last week, the Tatra Mountains recorded their coldest ever July as temperatures plunged to -5.7°C.
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Polish scientists are working on non-invasive method of deposit detection
Polish scientists are working on creating a three-dimensional image of the upper layer of the Earth's crust, which will indicate the concentration of deposits.
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Poles trust scientists but underestimate the consensus on climate change, shows new European research
Poles believe that scientists are on the right track to stop progressing climate changes. At the same time, public opinion in Poland and other European countries underestimates the scope of the scientific consensus on climate change, according to new research.
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Poland’s beaches are threatened by global warming, warns sea researcher
A leading oceanographer has warned that Poland will see an increase in rising water levels, that storms swamp quays and the country will have to invest more in the restoration of beaches, putting concrete on dunes and installing gates on rivers.
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Global warming is like leaving a child in a hot car during a heatwave
It is hard to imagine a despair greater than that of a parent who realises that they have forgotten to take a child from a hot car during a heat wave. In such cases, it is usually a moment of inattention, distraction, a phone ringing at the wrong time, a slight change in everyday routine... As a reason, at a critical moment the parent begins to think about matters other than the most important one: the child's life. After all, no one would like to find out for themselves what is happening in the head of a parent racing back to the car and fearing that the worst possible nightmare has come true.
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Polish peat bog may become official 'border between epochs'
A peat bog in Równia pod Śnieżką is one of 12 candidate sites in the world that may become a 'golden spike', - the official border between the Holocene and the proposed Anthropocene - an epoch driven by human consumerism.
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Glacier doomsday approaching, warns glaciologist from Adam Mickiewicz University
The condition of mountain glaciers in the European High Arctic is generally bad. It is particularly disastrous in many places in Svalbard/Spitsbergen and the Russian Novaya Zemlya, many of them may melt completely within about 30 years, Dr. Jakub Małecki from the Adam Mickiewicz University says after analysing data on several hundred glaciers.
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Hydrologist: We are still doing too little to counteract drought
Drought has been with us every summer for several years. We are still doing too little to counteract, says hydrologist and Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor Paweł Rowiński. He also emphasises that the awareness of water deficit and the need to care for its resources is growing.
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Survey/ Most adult Poles take global warming seriously
Less than a tenth of Poles (8%) are climate change deniers, 68% of respondents feel concern for their own and their relatives' lives, and 67% believe that climate change affects them personally, according to the latest State of Science Index, which presents the attitude of people to environmental protection.
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