News
May 13, 2017
In the first days of May 2017, the Ukrainian government announced completion of the first stage of a new dam at the North-Crimean (Severo-Krymsky) canal at the border with the Crimea. The purpose of the dam is complete blockage of water supplies to the Peninsular. Construction of the concrete erection is assessed approximately 35 million Hrivnas (about 75 million Russian Rubles). Kiev hopes that construction of this dam will lead to “complete dehydration” of the Peninsular and kill the entire agricultural industry.
May 12, 2017
Today, Russia and other CIS countries are noting the Environmental Education Day. The purpose of the celebration is updating the environmental protection knowledge in all sciences and all the fields of human activities. The Environmental education day was established in 1991.
May 9, 2017
espite Sanctions, Russia’s Oil Industry Powers On. Russian crude output is at historic highs; European firms are still investing. Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) is suffering from sanctions on Russia. The same can't be said for other big Western energy companies, or for Russia's oil production. The sanctions, put in place by the U.S.
April 28, 2017
President Donald Trump started the process Friday of opening offshore oil and gas drilling areas, including the continental shelf off the Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia coasts. It is a move many fear will have a negative impact on the multibillion-dollar coastal tourism industry on the Delmarva Peninsula.
April 22, 2017
Crowds massed in the US capital and around the world Saturday to support science and evidence-based research -- a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump's threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists' work. At the main March for Science, demonstrators gathered at Washington's National Mall to hear speakers laud science as the force moving humanity forward, and rail against policymakers they say are ignoring fact and research in areas including climate change.
April 21, 2017
BP Oil Spill Caused $17.2 Billion in Natural Resource Damage: Virginia Tech Scientists. The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The Virginia Tech scientists said this is the first comprehensive appraisal of the financial value of the natural resources damaged by the 134-million-gallon spill.
April 20, 2017
New study ranks hazardous asteroid effects from least to most destructive. If an asteroid struck Earth, which of its effects—scorching heat, flying debris, towering tsunamis—would claim the most lives? A new study has the answer: violent winds and shock waves are the most dangerous effects produced by Earth-impacting asteroids. The study explored seven effects associated with asteroid impacts—heat, pressure shock waves, flying debris, tsunamis, wind blasts, seismic shaking and cratering—and estimated their lethality for varying sizes.
April 18, 2017
From the 18th of April to the 19th of May anybody in any part of the world can visit a special site http://www.m2future.org/ and leave a message that will be kept in extreme Arctic conditions for 25 years.
A special capsule with internet-user messages will be placed at the “Baranov Cape” Ice Base, located on the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago Bolshevik Isle until 2042.
April 17, 2017
The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century.
Last spring, its retreat triggered a geologic event at relatively breakneck speed. The toe of ice that was sending meltwater toward the Slims River and then north to the Bering Sea retreated so far that the water changed course, joining the Kaskawulsh River and flowing south toward the Gulf of Alaska.
April 10, 2017
A group of Russian scholars from the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS and Institute of Geophysics of RAS developed a climatic model that allows determining the regions on the map of The European part of Russia, which are most vulnerable to natural catastrophes. This news is presented in an article, published in Ecological Mining Journal.