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March 4, 2025
Letter of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia dated 12/19/2024 N 03-14-53/52184 "On the implementation of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol". The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment informs about the measures that need to be implemented in order to fulfill Russia's obligations under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the Kigali Amendment to it.
February 26, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited American government agencies and companies to engage in joint projects for the mining of rare earth metals. Russia has 20% of the reserves of such raw materials, while there is practically no extraction and processing due to a lack of technology and a stable sales market.
February 25, 2025
The Ministry of Natural Resources reported the presence of 28.5 million tons of rare earth metals in the bowels of Russia. Oleg Kazanov, head of the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use (Rosnedra), during the round table "Extraction and processing of rare earth metals: a problem and solutions" in the Federation Council, stated that Russia's supply of rare earth elements (REE) is very high - the proven reserves of this type of raw material, prepared for production, are estimated at 28.5 million ton
21.02.2025
China completes drilling of Asia's deepest vertical well in major breakthrough. China National Petroleum Corp announced on Thursday that it has completed the drilling of the deepest vertical well in Asia, with a borehole reaching a depth of 10,910 meters in one of China's northwestern deserts, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
February 4, 2025
The day before, US President Donald Trump expressed interest in Ukraine's rare-earth metals, demanding that Kiev provide guarantees for their extraction and supply. In particular, Trump stressed that the United States is investing heavily in support of Ukraine, but wants to receive guarantees for rare earth metals, which are in large reserves on Ukrainian territory.
January 31, 2025
Shell boss vows to take Jackdaw gasfield battle to UK’s highest court. Developers of fossil fuel fields barred from starting production until consent decisions are reconsidered
Shell boss Wael Sawan said he would fight all the way to the UK Supreme Court to develop the North Sea’s Jackdaw gasfield after a court revoked permission for the project and another fossil fuel scheme.
Sawan told the Financial Times on Thursday he would “absolutely” go to the UK’s highest court if necessary to secure the Jackdaw project, on which Shell has already spent £800mn.
January 31, 2025
The oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away. An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last 20 million years.
January 30, 2025
NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date. Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have discovered a volcanic hot spot in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter’s moon Io. The hot spot is not only larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also belches out eruptions six times the total energy of all the world’s power plants.
January 29, 2025
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have blown up a coking coal mine in Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian name - Pokrovsk) on the orders of the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. This was stated by military-political expert Yan Gagin, RIA Novosti reports.
"Yes, indeed, there was information about the mine explosion. This mine belongs to Akhmetov's Metinvest company. It was on his orders that it was blown up," he said.
January 24, 2025
Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously thought. A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since been widening at a rate of half an inch per year. Researchers previously believed the split would take tens of millions of years, but Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that it would likely happen within one to five million years.
The separation would also create a new ocean and continent on Earth.