The gneisses of the Strzelin massif are probably the oldest surface rocks in Poland. However, there are still rocks in the country whose exact age is unknown, says Mateusz Szadkowski from the Lower Silesian Branch of the Polish Geological Institute-NRI.

Working on a lunar meteorite is a real scientific treat, says Professor Monika A. Kusiak, a geochemist and mineralogist from the Department of Polar and Marine Research of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is studying a meteorite found in Antarctica with a team of scientists from NASA and Korea.

Equatorial tropical waves contributed to the formation of cyclone Seroja, which hit Indonesia in 2021. A cyclone in this area, close to land, is a rare phenomenon; it may be related to climate change, says Beata Latos, the first author of the publication in Nature Communications.

Average annual temperatures in Poland are higher than 70 years ago, says climate scientist Professor Joanna Wibig from the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of the University of Lodz.

The year 2022 was the fifth warmest globally, but in Europe it was the year with the second highest average air temperature, told PAP Dr. Michał Marosz, a climate scientist from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute.

The progressive climate warming in Poland concerns all seasons of the year; both average and extreme values of air temperature are increasing, according to the 'Atlas of Poland's climate (1991-2020)' by scientists from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

The inner core of the Earth most likely contains an iron ball with a radius of 650 km. The discovery will affect the concepts of the formation and evolution of the Earth, Australian scientists report in Nature Communications.

We must start getting used to the fact that real winters will be less frequent in Polish lowlands; perhaps they will still occur in the east of the country', says Professor Joanna Wibig from the Department of Meteorology and Climatology of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of the University of Łódź.

Scientists have extracted a 13.5 m-deep core of organic deposits from the Serteya mire in western Russia, described as an invaluable source of information on the prehistory and natural history of the region.