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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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