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January 23, 2024
Climatologists believe that the scientific isolation of RF negatively affects the study of the Arctic climate. According to American and European researchers, 21 research stations from the INTERACT Network were stopped in the spring of 2022 due to geopolitical events in Ukraine and attempts by Western states to isolate Russia from the rest of the world and in the scientific field.
January 15, 2023
NASA Identifies $1 Billion ISS Deorbiting Solution. US space agency, NASA, has found a solution to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) costing upwards of $1 billion. The solution involves designing and constructing a towing vehicle that can safely deorbit ISS once it reaches its projected lifespan end in 2030. NASA has reportedly requested the funds through their “FY 2024 Budget Request Agency Summary.”
December 22, 2023
The US has "without any preliminary arrangement or permission" extended the boundaries of its continental shelf in the Barents Sea and the Arctic. On 19th December, the State Department released geographic coordinates defining the outer limits of the U.S. continental shelf in areas beyond 200 nautical miles from the coast, known as the extended continental shelf (ECS). The continental shelf is an extension of the country's land area on the seabed.
December 7, 2023
Drought data shows “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale”: UN. UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA).
November 11, 2023
New research maps 14 potential evolutionary dead ends for humanity and ways to avoid them. Humankind risks getting stuck in 14 evolutionary dead ends, ranging from global climate tipping points to misaligned artificial intelligence, chemical pollution, and accelerating infectious diseases.
November 1, 2023
Humans Are Disrupting Natural ‘Salt Cycle’ on a Global Scale, New Study Shows. The influx of salt in streams and rivers is an ‘existential threat,’ according to a research team led by a UMD geologist. The planet’s demand for salt comes at a cost to the environment and human health, according to a new scientific review led by University of Maryland Geology Professor Sujay Kaushal.
October 25, 2023
Two groups look at the economic viability of mining asteroids. Two teams of economists have conducted economic assessments of mining asteroids—one of them is a trio with one member each from the University of Tor Rome Vergata, the University of Maryland and Middlebury College. They looked at asteroid mining as part of the next logical step in monetizing space exploration.
October 11, 2023
The offshore gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia has been stopped.
July 24, 2023
Deep ocean targeted for mining is rich in unknown life. A vast area at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean earmarked for controversial deep sea mineral mining is home to thousands of species unknown to science and more complex than previously understood, according to several new studies.
Miners are eyeing an abyssal plain stretching between Hawaii and Mexico, known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), for the rock-like "nodules" scattered across the seafloor that contain minerals used in clean energy technologies like electric car batteries.
July 18, 2023
It turned out that the number of natural disasters in the world is decreasing, not growing. Perhaps it never grew. As opposed to the endless statements to the contrary by the UN and many other organizations, the "bold" figures show: natural disasters in the XXI century are becoming less and less.