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March 22, 2022
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, focuses on the importance of freshwater. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. This 2022, the focus is groundwater, an invisible resource with an impact visible everywhere.
March 22, 2022
Ukraine war threatens global heating goals, warns UN chief. António Guterres says countries seeking alternatives to Russian energy may increase use of fossil fuels
The war in Ukraine risks putting global targets on the climate out of reach, the UN secretary general has warned, if countries respond to Russia’s aggression by increasing their use of fossil fuels.
March 14, 2022
6 Big Findings from the IPCC 2022 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a troubling picture: Climate change is already impacting every corner of the world, and much more severe impacts are in store if we fail to halve greenhouse gas emissions this decade and immediately scale up adaptation.
March 13, 2022
Europe has started returning to the "dirtiest" fuel. While Europe is attempting to reduce dependence on Russian gas, the region is increasingly beginning to switch to coal power generation, Bloomberg writes. Although the prices of the dirtiest fossil fuel - coal are rising in the same way as for most other raw materials, in any case it turns out to be cheaper to return to coal than using gas.
March 3, 2022
Russian scientists have created an environmentally friendly substance, which is also safe for marine life, and dissolves the plugs that are formed from time to time in wells during gas production in the waters. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Education and Science of Russia).
February 28, 2022
Capitalism’s Latest Bright Idea: Privatise the Moon. The billionaire space race of the twenty-first century is in full swing.
February 22, 2022
China on Monday denied responsibility for a rocket set to slam into the Moon, after experts said the piece of space junk likely came from Beijing's lunar exploration program. Astronomers initially thought the wayward object was a chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission.
But it is now believed to be the booster for the Chang'e 5-T1, launched in 2014 as part of the Chinese space agency's lunar exploration program.
January 28, 2022
Highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution now found in Amazon rainforest due to gold mining. After performing the first-ever measurement of terrestrial deposits of atmospheric methylmercury – the most toxic form of mercury – an international team of researchers found that the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution in the world are now found in pristine areas of the Amazonian rainforest.
December 13, 2021
Scientists Find a New Source of a Greenhouse Gas Emissions in The Siberian Permafrost
A major part of tackling the climate crisis is in understanding what's happening in Earth's atmosphere in terms of heating, cooling, and the factors playing into that. Now scientists have discovered a massive new source of nitrous oxide (N2O), one of the greenhouse gases causing our planet to warm up.
November 30, 2021
The VTB Capital” analysts assessed the cost of the climatic plan for the salvation of Russia and the carbon-neutral transition of the national economy. The authors calculated several scenarios and degrees of achieving carbon neutrality (refusing hazardous emissions and their compensation) by 2060. It was President Vladimir Putin, who put such a purpose earlier on.