Radioactive road trip

receive a medical check­up. Nuclear waste disposal experts from the Serbian Vinca Nuclear Research Institute said that the rod has been moved to a secure location.

Radioactive lightning rods have been installed in hundreds of sites worldwide according to the International Atomic Energy Agency as it was believed that they would reduce the risk of lightning strikes hitting other targets. However, the agency reported in 2022 that there is no evidence to prove this belief.

Warm winter woes

EUROPE is no stranger to winter weather, but this year’s season brought a change in the pattern. According to data released by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on Wednesday, March 8, the continent just experienced its second­warmest winter on record. Throughout the continent, temperatures hovered at an average of 1.4 degrees Celsius above the 1991­2020 average. While the winter may have felt mild in some areas, it was anything but ordinary.

December and January’s weather was described as a ‘severe winter heatwave’, with record­high temperatures being recorded in countries including France. The Swiss town of Altdorf also saw temperatures soar to 19.2 degrees Celsius, breaking a record that had been in place since 1864. This is not the first time Europe has experienced a warmer winter. Scientists believe that the trend is a result of climate change, which is causing global temperatures to rise.