Anomalous zone. Belarus

Woodland, famous from time immemorial for its swamps, mirages in wonder. As is known, they are characteristic mainly for deserts and semi-deserts. But how to explain to people, what they see with their own eyes – a hallucination or mass deception?

According to the Chairman sosnovskogo selsoveta Nikolai Rope above mentioned administrative-territorial unit last summer, often watching the real mirages.

— Suddenly on the horizon — he says, — there is like a lake, and it would read the tractor and the people. And such pictures are floating in the air the whole day, sometimes a week or more.

Woodland, famous from time immemorial for its swamps, mirages in wonder. As is known, they are characteristic mainly for deserts and semi-deserts. I do not indicates whether such a strange way nature has about the origin on Subandina new Sahara or Kara Kum?

And why not?! During the years of Soviet power in the district was drained and used in agriculture around 70% (72 thousand hectares) of land. It is usually melkogalechnye and globorotalia peat. More than two thirds of these soils are annually plowed under crops, potatoes, sugar beets.

The result is very sad. In many places the layer of peat decreased by 70-90 cm, and in the fields some farmers even bare sand.

What were previously considered inexhaustible source of income for rural workers, now rapidly turning into a barren land. Latest on Lubamine more than 15 thousand hectares, and by 2015, according to conservative estimates, will add another three and a half thousand. The trouble is, as they say, never comes alone. About 37 thousand hectares of land area subject to wind erosion. Sandstorms blow in from the fields for 30 to 60 tons of soil the most fertile layer. Planting of shelterbelts was started relatively recently. But, alas, today a third of them have been destroyed by fire: a very popular folk fun to burn the stubble in the fields, the dry grass along the banks of drainage channels and rivers. In the end, every year, 20-30 hectares of peatlands become ash, where dare to rise only nettles.

So, maybe, do mirages not accidental? Maybe it really is a sign of impending environmental disaster?

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»