A system for detecting earthquake precursors has been developed. The computing platform will help predict seismic events in a few weeks. Scientists at the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a computing platform for assessing earthquake precursors based on geoelectric monitoring data.
Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean? The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe zone’ as climate change worsens. It’s official: Earth’s average temperature climbed to more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in 2024.
Melting Antarctic ice sheets may be causing larger volcanic eruptions. Melting ice sheets are often considered synonymous with climate change in the media, with evocative images of lone polar bears floating on ever-shrinking rafts of ice. While impacts such as sea level rise and salinity changes are commonly reported, one lesser-known consequence is the effect on volcanoes.
Unique microbial communities discovered beneath frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Enigma. An international team of polar researchers has found several types of microbiota living in the water below the frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Enigma. In their study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, group members ventured to the lake. Using ground-penetrating radar, they found that there was water deep below its frozen surface, and drilled into the lake to obtain water samples for testing.
China Focus: Testing mortise-tenon bricks on China's space station for building houses on moon. Astronauts aboard China's space station are set to arrange an experiment on brick samples made from simulated lunar soil and featuring mortise-tenon joint structure, which may pave the way for building houses on the moon using lunar soils.
Land degradation expanding by 1m sq km a year, study shows. Report calls for course correction to avoid land abuse ‘compromising Earth’s capacity to support human and environmental wellbeing’
Land degradation is expanding worldwide at the rate of 1m sq km every year, undermining efforts to stabilise the climate, protect nature and ensure sustainable food supplies, a study has highlighted.
The water level in the Caspian Sea has dropped to a minimum level and may not recover. Scientists predicted further shallowing of the reservoir, which is important for Russia.
In 2024, global consumption of natural gas could grow by 2.3%. This was predicted according to the results of the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries (GECF), the Izvestia newspaper
reports.
Experts warn of political risks in Antarctic curtain geoengineering proposal. The scientific debate around the installation of a massive underwater curtain to protect Antarctic ice sheets from melting lacks a vital political perspective. A Kobe University research team argues that the serious questions around authority, sovereignty and security should be addressed proactively by the scientific community to avoid the protected seventh continent becoming the scene or object of international discord.
In a quarter of a century the investments in oil production in Russia will grow 1.8 times to the levels of 2023, reaching 4.5 trillion Rubles. The Vedomosti newspaper writes about this with reference to the data from the Ministry of Energy for the energy strategy draft until 2050.
