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June 4, 2019
Australian Report Lays Out Devastating Consequences Climate Change Could Have By Mid-Century.
May 31, 2019
The USA authorities announced that LNG is the freedom gas, which carries with itself freedom, democracy better than the American soldiers do. At the same time, two representatives of the US Department of Energy called American LNG “freedom gas” and “molecules of American freedom”. Mark Manezes, US Under Secretary of Energy announced that export capacity increase will have “pivot significance for spreading of the freedom gas through the world”.
May 29, 2019
The U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island. Now it’s cracking open. At 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954, the blue sky stretching over the central Pacific Ocean was split open by an enormous red flash. Within seconds, a mushroom cloud towered 4½ miles high over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The explosion, the U.S. government’s first weaponized hydrogen bomb, was 1,000 times as powerful as the “Little Boy” atomic bomb blast that flattened Hiroshima — and a complete miscalculation.
May 22, 2019
Russian scientists have discovered a previously unknown mechanism of influence of salts migration on the degradation of gigantic intra permafrost gas (methane) hydrate reserves in the Arctic Shelf. The results of their study were published in Geosciences journal.
May 5, 2019
Human adaptation to climate change may include changes in fertility, according to a new study by an international group of researchers. They found that, through its economic effects, climate change could have a substantial impact on fertility, as people decide how much time and money they devote to child-rearing, and whether to use those resources to have more children or invest more in the future of each child.
May 4, 2019
AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals. Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organisations such as the Allen Institute, and tech companies including Google and Facebook. A likely result is that we will soon have AI approximately as cognitively sophisticated as mice or dogs. Now is the time to start thinking about whether, and under what conditions, these AIs might deserve the ethical protections we typically give to animals.
April 17, 2019
Norway approves copper mine in Arctic described as 'most environmentally damaging project in country's history'. Operation will see heavy metal waste dumped in fjords and put reindeer at risk.
Norway has approved a plan to begin mining for copper in the Arctic, angering environmentalists who fear it will lead to the destruction of reindeer pastures and the pollution of nearby fjords.
April 16, 2019
Nuclear disasters could leave a lasting legacy of contaminants in glaciers. Emerging research is suggesting that radioactive particles are being stored within glaciers. Nuclear disasters such as Chernobyl and Fukushima are known to have had an immediate impact on their surrounding environments and the people living within them.
April 11, 2019
Belligerent landscapes. Photo by Irish photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil, taken from a bird’s eye view, one can see a field in Beaumont-Hamel commune of Some Department in France. This scenery resembles a tree leaf under a microscope, or a winding river, or scars and scattered craters. The latter is close to truth: these are scars and craters on the body of our planet – traces of the notorious Somme Battle of 1916, one of the some battles of World War I that lasted for 4.5 months. The scars are the trenches dug in the land, while the craters are the blown shell holes.
March 29, 2019
Energy demand worldwide grew by 2.3% last year, its fastest pace this decade, an exceptional performance driven by a robust global economy and stronger heating and cooling needs in some regions. Natural gas emerged as the fuel of choice, posting the biggest gains and accounting for 45% of the rise in energy consumption. Gas demand growth was especially strong in the United States and China.