News
October 09, 2016
Kazakhstan scientists propose creation of their own Persion Gulf. The Caspian and Aral Seas and adjacent territories constantly cause a desire in scientists and politicians to implement huge water projects: digging canals between the two aquifers, take some rivers over the continent, and fill the bottom of the ancient ocean with salt waters again. Another non-standard idea has been proposed in Kazakhstan to change the nature of the area – establish a vast resort zone on the Mangyshlak Peninsular, where people could swim and take sun baths all the year round.
October 04, 2016
BP has spilled hundreds of barrels of oil in the North Sea, in a leak from its Clair platform. The energy giant said the leak was stopped within an hour of being spotted on Sunday morning and it had temporarily shut down the platform, 46 miles west of Shetland, while it investigated the precise cause. It estimated that 95 tonnes of oil, equivalent to more than 665 barrels, had been released during the leak, which left oil visible on the surface of the sea.
October 02, 2016
International Association for Geoethics - IAGETH - is happy to announce that Prof. Jesús Martínez-Frías has been re-elected as President of our association for a period of four years.
http://www.icog.es/iageth/index.php/jesus-martinez-frias-re-elected-as-president-of-the-international-association-for-geoethics/September 30, 2016
The public prosecutor’s office of the Yamal-Nenetsky Autonomy (YNA, Russia) ordered for collection of a fine of 9,6 million Roubles from “Gazpromneft-Muravlenko” company for leakage of oil, occurred at the Sumgutsky Oil Field iin June 2016. The complaint was filed to the public prosecutor’s office by local population.
September 29, 2016
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reached a preliminary agreement on cutting crude production for the first time since 2008, prompting an immediate six percent surge in oil prices. Despite Iran’s recently-voiced reluctance to cut output, the Islamic Republic and Saudi Arabia have put political and sectarian differences aside in favor of shared economic interests: low oil prices have hampered both economies for months, affecting their export revenues and fiscal performance.
September 28, 2016
Megacity pumping and preferential flow threaten groundwater quality. Many of the world’s megacities depend on groundwater from geologically complex aquifers that are over-exploited and threatened by contamination. Using the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, scientists have illustrated how interactions between aquifer heterogeneity and groundwater exploitation jeopardize groundwater resources regionally.
September 27, 2016
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hinted about the "pretty crazy" stuff he revealed during his press with regard to his plans to colonize Mars. The commercial space flight industry tycoon recently delivered his highly anticipated speech "Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species" and it is primarily based on the believe that one day, the end of the world will come.
September 23, 2016
Series of Texas quakes likely triggered by oil and gas industry activity
During the past decade or so the oil and gas industry has injected wastewater into deep rocks in eastern Texas, causing Earth’s surface to bulge ever so slightly—and likely triggering a series of tremors there in 2012, a new study suggests. Scientists say the work offers hope that similar analyses of the landscape in other oil- and gas-producing regions could help identify areas at risk of human-caused earthquakes.
September 21, 2016
Extreme high pollution of surface waters has been identified in 10 regions of Russian Federation in 2015 – in Sverdlovsk, Moscow, Chelyabinsk, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Tyumen, and Irkutsk oblasts, Khabarovsk, Primorye and Perm kray territories. Over 60% of all cases are associated with contamination of surface waters with weighted substances, manganese, nitrites and ammonium nitrogen.
Such data have been presented in draft government report “About status and protection of the environment in Russia in 2015”.
September 16, 2016
In Russia it is the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone layer today. The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone layer was proclaimed by UN General Assembly in 1994 for commemoration of signing the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone layer and it has been note annually since 1995. The document was signed by 35 countries, including Russia.