December 2019, ScientificAmerican.com 19
INDONESIA
Climate models have more firmly connected a record-setting
cold European summer in 1816 to the previous year’s eruption of
Indonesia’s Mount Tambora, which injected sulfur dioxide into
the atmosphere and caused widespread surface cooling.
NEW ZEALAND
Researchers found that
humpback whales traveling
near Raoul Island, 700 miles
off New Zealand’s coast,
learn songs from members
of other breeding grounds.
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SPAIN
Summer’s powerful drought revealed a
more than 4,000-year-old oval of at least
100 standing stones called the Dolmen of
Guadalperal, which had been submerged
since 1963 in an engineered reservoir.
GERMANY
An underwater environmental-monitoring station 48 feet
below the surface of Eckernförde Bay disappeared in
August. Researchers found only a frayed cable at the site
of the more than 1,750-pound observatory, and the search
continued with additional dives and ship-based sonar.
BRAZIL
A newfound species
of electric eel in Brazil,
Electrophorus voltai,
produces the strongest
shock scientists have ever
measured from a living
animal. It can let loose
860 volts; a Taser delivers
about 1,200.
RUSSIA
Scientists identified a small
group of Nordmann’s green-
shanks, among the most
endangered shorebirds, in
a bog in Russia’s far eastern
region. They helmed the first
in- depth study of the bird
since 1976 and are the first
ever to capture a photo-
graph of an adult on a nest.
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