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Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized [1] [2] to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. [3] The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot into the stratosphere, where it can block some direct sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth.
The Declining Winter is a British band based in Yorkshire, led by Richard Adams, the co-founder of the Domino Records group Hood. [1] The band plays a unique form of pastoral pop taking in influences from lo-fi, electronica and post rock with a strong visual aesthetic inspired by the countryside of Yorkshire.
Tin medal affected by tin pest. Tin pest is an autocatalytic, allotropic transformation of the element tin, which causes deterioration of tin objects at low temperatures.Tin pest has also been called tin disease, [1] tin blight, tin plague, [2] or tin leprosy. [3]
Similar to other species of Trichocera, winged winter craneflies are adapted to cold environments, but unlike most congeneric species, they seems to be tolerant to both warm and cold climates. [ 3 ] Furthermore, unlike most congeneric species, the larvae of ' Trichocera maculipennis seem to be adapted to survive in semi-liquid or even liquid ...
Trichoceridae, or winter crane flies, of the order Diptera are long, thin, delicate insects superficially similar in appearance to the Tipulidae, Tanyderidae, and Ptychopteridae. The presence of ocelli distinguishes the Trichoceridae from these other families .
Marcescence is most obvious in deciduous trees that retain leaves through the winter. Several trees normally have marcescent leaves such as oak ( Quercus ), [ 5 ] beech ( Fagus ) and hornbeam ( Carpinus ), or marcescent stipules as in some but not all species of willows ( Salix ). [ 6 ]
Fimbulwinter is the harsh winter that precedes the end of the world and puts an end to all life on Earth. Fimbulwinter is three successive winters, when snow comes in from all directions, without any intervening summer. Innumerable wars follow. The event is described primarily in the Poetic Edda.
Project Winter is a social deduction video game featuring survival game mechanics first released on May 23, 2019, for Windows. In Project Winter , players take on the roles of "survivors" and "traitors", having to repair two objectives to escape from an incoming blizzard , or prevent an escape from happening.