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 From the #covid19 outbreaks to earthquakes explosion 💥 and more! A look at a key events from 2020 ⏮️              A quick recap ⏮️ of a year gone by. So mny highs and lows!  What are your experiences from 2021? Tell us in the comments.. 

The decade from 2011 to 2020 is the warmest recorded decade ever, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). "This year is on track to be one of the three warmest on record and may even rival 2016 as the warmest on record. The six warmest years have all been since 2015," the WMO tweeted. Continue...  

The joint ESA-NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft completed its first flyby of Venus. Solar Orbiter reached its closest approach to Venus when the spacecraft was about 7,500 kilometres from Venus' cloud tops. During the flyby, Solar Orbiter gathered data that could provide insights into how Venus interacts with solar winds. Continue...  

A sample of rock that was collected from a mine in Cornwall around 220 years ago has turned out to be an entirely new species of mineral. It was catalogued as something else and kept in London's Natural History Museum (NHM) since 1964. The dark green mineral has been named 'Kernowite' after Kernow, the Cornish language word for Cornwall. Continue...

  Pterosaurs dominated the sky about 150 million years ago when the earth was occupied by dinosaurs.  Since it was from the time of the dinosaurs, people called it ‘Flying SLUHHUR (Flying Dynasore) sšalj 213  So far, little has been known about the “king of the heavens.”  Thus, it is not known how this creature evolved and began to fly despite having a huge body. Scientists have now solved this big cockroach.  A study published in the popular journal Nature found that small dinosaur-like creatures called lagerpetids were the closest to the pterosaurs.  The development of both matches.  After this important discovery you will now be able to get new information about the development of the first king of the sky and his ability to fly. Scientists have solved a 200-year-old mystery.   However, along with the dinosaurs, the pterosaurs also disappeared from the earth about 66 million years ago.  These pterosaurs are often called dragon models....

The University of Bristol's scientists have "rebuilt" the brain of a Thecodontosaurus, that roamed England some 205 million years ago, using advanced imaging and 3D modelling techniques. They said unlike its plant-eating relatives, Thecodontosaurus may have eaten meat and could have walked on two legs. Experts also reconstructed its inner ears and estimated that it had high hearing frequency. Continue...  

 World leaders should declare "States of Climate Emergency" in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a climate summit. "Can anybody still deny that we are facing a dramatic emergency?" he asked. He added G20 members are spending 50% more in their stimulus packages on fossil fuel-linked sectors and consumption, than on low-carbon energy. Continue...

 As many as two billion people will face 60°C temperatures for more than a tenth of the year in the 2050s, the World Economic Forum (WEF) warned citing a book. Up to 140 million people are expected to be displaced by 2050 because of food and water insecurity as well as extreme weather, it further said quoting the World Bank. Continue...