The earth will change radically by the end of the century ● Virgin Galactic resumes flights a month after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy ● The mystery of human skeletons in Gran Canaria is still waiting to be solved

The earth will change radically by the end of the century

Droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, tornadoes, wildfires, storms and more, so what you see today is just the tip of the iceberg. This is just an example of what is to come, according to a study published in the journal Earth’s Future.

This study, written by researchers from Turkey and the United States, shows us what our planet will look like in the coming decades, until the end of the century at most. For example, at least an area equivalent to 38-40% of the continental area, and possibly more than 50% of the land area, will enter a different climate zone.

In this order of ideas, 89% of the surface of Europe and 66% of the surface of North America would fall into another climate zone. Desert areas will occupy 34% of the Earth’s land (31% is currently occupied), and tropical areas will reach 23 to 25%. Climate zone changes will not occur in Africa, Australia and South America. Instead, they will face extreme weather conditions.

This means a revision of the climate map of the planet (which has defined the current five climate zones), for the first time since its creation in 1884 by the Russian-German scientist Vladimir Köppen. In fact, the authors of the study claim, this map should already be changed, given that 14.77% of the Earth’s land area has already entered a different climate zone since the beginning of the 20th century.

The only good thing about everything these people are saying is that the situation is still reversible. But you must have already heard this board with the measures that must be taken urgently, because your ears are pricked up.

Virgin Galactic resumes flights a month after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy

They say it’s good not to put all your eggs in one basket. An expression that suits British billionaire Richard Branson just fine, especially after Virgin Galactic Holdings, the space tourism company he owns, resumes commercial flights next month. This comes just a month after another company with a similar profile, also owned by Brason, Virgin Orbit, officially went bankrupt.

The company, which has already sold 200 tickets at a price of $450,000 each, has not operated since 2014 after the pilot died in an accident. Staff shortages and supply chain issues have also led to long-term flight delays.

While the first commercial flight will take place in June this year, the final test flight will take place at the end of this month. The crew will consist of two women and two men, each with experience training NASA astronauts.

Virgin Galactic officials announced that the mission will last about 90 minutes and will take crew members to an altitude of 80 kilometers where they will experience a few minutes of weightlessness.

Compared to other private space companies (Blue Origin or SpaceX) that use vertical launch rockets, Virgin Galactic uses a transport plane that carries a rocket-powered aircraft. It launches to the edge of space and then returns to earth.

The mystery of human skeletons in Gran Canaria is still waiting to be solved

The recent discovery of six human skeletons, all of them male, on the island of Gran Canaria in northwest Africa has raised many questions, especially because the burial practices were unusual.

In particular, six people had their hands and feet tied, they were placed face down and had signs of violence. Burial was limited to covering the corpses with stones, but archaeologists do not rule out that this was a ritual practice.

At least for the time being, Spanish researchers point to the origin of the skeletons, which predates the landing of the conquistadors in the 15th century. But since no item related to the bones was found, any option remains possible.

Answers will come soon, as specialists have already taken samples of organic material, which they will radiocarbon date. This will show whether the skeletons date to the period before the Spanish conquest, or whether they belong to a later period, perhaps even to the 18th century.

All that can be said at this point is that the men were doing the same type of activity and they all had very strong arm bones. And the fact that they were placed in a hard-to-reach cave, located on a steep cliff, indicates a ritual, not a murder.

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