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How does a city-state of 6.1 million people with almost no natural freshwater meet up to 40 percent of its water demand with water that once went down the drain?
A single lightning flash recorded over the southern US in April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres across three states in a matter of seconds, a horizontal bolt long enough to reach from Boston to Washington DC, and satellite instruments only exist to measure it because ground observers cannot see that far
How did a country whose forests held just 6 cubic metres of standing wood per hectare after colonial logging and war rebuild them to more than 160 within a single lifetime?
In 1859, a solar storm now called the Carrington Event induced currents so strong in North American telegraph lines that operators disconnected their batteries and kept sending messages on the geomagnetic current alone, while auroras were reported as far south as Cuba
