News
November 5, 2019
More than 11,000 scientists from around the world declare a ‘climate emergency’. Study outlines six major steps that ‘must’ be taken to address the situation. A new report by 11,258 scientists in 153 countries from a broad range of disciplines warns that the planet “clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency,” and provides six broad policy goals that must be met to address it.
November 5, 2019
Greenpeace Nordic and Nature and Youth in Norway are today again taking the Norwegian government to Oslo’s Court of Appeal for opening up new oil drilling in the Arctic. “Right now climate change is contributing to intensifying wildfires, droughts, hurricanes and heatwaves and causing deaths around the world. The Norwegian Government can no longer ignore the dangerous impact its exported oil is having on the climate. Climate change knows no borders. Oil is oil, no matter where it is burned, and the government needs to cancel all drilling for new oil in the Arctic.
October 21, 2019
In view of the global warming and its potential catastrophic consequences, the leading world powers are having to search for alternatives for mineral fuel types to reduce their impact to the atmosphere. Hydrogen may be a promising replacement to oil and gas – successful tests on hydrogen are underway in Germany and Great Britain. In this regard, railway transport has most potential: hydrogen-powered trains will replace diesel-powered locomotives.
October 15, 2019
Serbian journalist Zoran Milosevic thinks that the purpose of the new “Northern Expansion Doctrine” of the USA is an attempt to deprive Russia of its rights to the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Milosevic expressed his views in his article in the “Pechat” publication.
September 23, 2019
Russia has joined the Paris Climate Accord. The Russian Prime-Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution on accepting the Paris Climate Accord. He announced it on the opening day of the UN Climate Summit. Russia signed the Paris Climate Accord back in April 2016. Russia becomes a party to the Accord without approval of the ratification law by the State Duma.
September 18, 2019
The Biggest Volcano on Jupiter’s Molten Moon Io Is Likely to Erupt at Any Moment. Observational data collected over the years suggests the largest volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io—the most geologically active object in the Solar System—will erupt in mid-September, which is pretty much any moment now.
September 11, 2019
Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, minister says. Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, the environment minister said on Tuesday.
Tokyo Electric, or Tepco, has collected more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting since the plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
August 29, 2019
Humans caused significant environmental change around the globe by about 3,000-4,000 years ago, much earlier than prior estimates, as revealed by a new international study. Land use by early farmers, pastoralists and even hunter-gatherer societies was extensive enough to have created significant global landcover change by 3,000-4,000 years ago. This is much earlier than has been recognised, and challenges prevailing opinions concerning a mid-20th century start date for the Anthropocene.
August 26, 2019
Predicting Moral and Political Development With Science. How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? Why has the public opinion in large parts of the world shifted so rapidly in favor of gay and lesbian rights, but been virtually unchanged on other contested issues such as abortion rights? A study from a Swedish team of researchers recently published in the social science journal Nature Human Behaviour answers several critical questions on how public opinion changes on moral issues.