Is age the key to how big volcanoes will blow? panorama.am - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from panorama.am Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ozone levels fell by half as a result of the eruption of the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra, experts from Germany s Max Planck Institute for Chemistry found.
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Kertam, a Sumatran rhino
Sumatran rhinoceroses are solitary creatures that browse the dense rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, living in small, scattered, shrinking groups. Taking a census is challenging, although they “sing.” It isn’t known how many of them exist, exactly, but the number is small.
A multinational research team has unearthed clues in the genomes of 21 of the animals, five “historical” from the Malay Peninsula where they are extinct, and 16 modern genomes from the remaining populations on Sumatra and Borneo. “Genomic insights into the conservation status of the world’s last remaining Sumatran rhinoceros populations” appears in
David Finnigan in ‘You’re Safe til 2024’. Photo: Leanne Dixon
Theatre / “You’re safe til 2024: Deep History”, David Finnigan and Reuben Ingall, Courtyard Studio Canberra Theatre, until April 10. Reviewed by
SAMARA PURNELL
IMAGINE dropping grains of sand into a pile – over time avalanches occur… and we are poised on the brink of change.
The grains of sand represent the human population and these avalanches in time are the premise of “Deep History”, where a female protagonist, of our imagination, travels through time, beginning 75,000 years ago with the volcanic eruption of Mount Toba, Indonesia.
The ashy fallout, which may have caused a volcanic winter and a bottleneck in population, is the first critical event described, where six, key survival “take-aways”, scribbled on butcher’s paper are promised. This first one states the population is around 15,000 and the lesson is “Survival is possible”.
Mount Toba Research Paper - 304 Words bartleby.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bartleby.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.