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May 28, 2025
Russian scientists have confirmed the appearance of a new island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea due to a decrease in its level. The island is being named, the press service of the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported.
May 28, 2025
Financing for Russia's new lunar program, which aims to build a station on the moon, will begin in 2025. This was stated by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Gennady Krasnikov at the general meeting of the Academy.
"As for the lunar program, it includes seven lunar missions with various scientific objectives. <...> This is a large and very responsible program and, of course, a serious challenge for our academic institutions. Financing of this program will begin this year," said the head of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
May 19, 2025
Roscosmos showed a photo of the eruption of the Shiveluch volcano in the Kamchatka Territory (Russia). The volcano had previously spewed two ash columns 8 and 8.5 km high. Satellites allow monitoring the situation with the eruption of the Shiveluch volcano in the Kamchatka Territory. This is reported in the Telegram channel of Roscosmos.
May 14, 2025
Magellan mission reveals possible tectonic activity on Venus. Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission.
On Earth, the planet's surface is continually renewed by the constant shifting and recycling of massive sections of crust, called tectonic plates, that float atop a viscous interior. Venus doesn't have tectonic plates, but its surface is still being deformed by molten material from below.
May 12, 2025
The “wealthiest 10%” of people on the planet are “responsible” for 65% of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, according to new research. The study, published in Nature Climate Change, uses a field of climate science called “attribution” to determine the contribution of the world’s “wealthiest population groups” to climate change through the greenhous
April 29, 2025
China, Russia may build nuclear plant on moon to power lunar station, official says. China is considering building a nuclear plant on the moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) it is planning with Russia, a presentation by a senior official showed on Wednesday.
China aims to become a major space power and land astronauts on the moon by 2030, and its planned Chang’e-8 mission for 2028 would lay the groundwork for constructing a permanent, manned lunar base.
April 28, 2025
Environment groups say Thursday order ignores effort to adopt rules to prevent harmful mining of ocean floor. Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ongoing process to adopt international rules for the practice.
April 27, 2025
Trump signs executive order boosting deep-sea mining industry. Order seeks to jumpstart mining of US waters as part of push to offset China’s control of minerals industry. Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, the latest attempt to boost US production of nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy.
April 2, 2025
Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows. Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’
Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on some estimates.
March 29, 2025
'This is a very big earthquake': The science behind Myanmar's magnitude 7.7 earthquake. A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's second-largest city, as well as nearby countries, including China and Thailand, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported.