News
September 05, 2013
Environmental remedial actions of the season in 2013 are being completed on the Franz Josef Land Islands Federal Reserve. Particularly in order to prevent environmental disaster the pollution clean-up on the island Greem-Bell has been completed. As a result of climate change was the erosion of the shore, on which the abandoned oil stores were located. And hundreds of thousands tons of oil could dump into the Barents Sea. 8 thousand tonnes of the garbage were picked up. Those waste will be carried on the mainland by ship "Blue Spirit" belonging to AKS and sent to recycling.
September 03, 2013
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 jolted southern Japan on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK said, with the tremor shaking buildings in the capital, Tokio. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake with a magnitude of 6.5. The quake was measured 400 km (250 miles) below the earth's surface about 580 km (360 miles) south of Tokyo, NHK said. Witnesses said it was felt along much of Japan's east coast.
August 21. 2013
Fighting for their way of life, the indigenous Sami population in northern Sweden have been camping out to block attempts by British company Beowulf Mines to start blasting for iron ore. Police broke up the blockade of around 50 people made up of locals and Sami, who sang and chanted as they were taken away. In total eight people were detained for crimes varying from resisting arrest to trespassing. One protester who preferred to remain anonymous said: “It really shows how the system works. Police come and protect the companies with any force necessary.
August 19, 2013
British police dispersed hundreds of protesters who blocked access to an oil exploration site in rural England on Monday in an intensification of an almost month-long standoff over the nascent shale gas extraction industry in Britain. A total of 36 people were detained, both in the village of Balcome and in London, in the first of two days of "direct action" against the drilling process known as fracking, which protesters fear may trigger small earthquakes and pollute water supplies.
August 15, 2013
The recent decade has seen an exceptional number of extreme heat waves around the world that caused severe damage to society and ecosystems. Examples of such events include the European heat wave of 2003, the Greek heat wave of 2007, the Australian heat wave of 2009, the Russian heat wave of 2010, the Texan heat wave of 2011, and the US heat wave of 2012.
August 14, 2013
New class of “Easily Retrievable” Asteroids has been discovered. Astronomers have found 12 near Earth asteroids that could be captured with today’s rocket technology. Asteroids that pass close to Earth have become the focus of increased attention in recent years, partly because of the potential threat they pose to humanity. But they are also a potential boon. For decades, science fiction writers and various space scientists have pointed out that asteroids offer a huge untapped source of valuable resources.
August 13, 2013
Alexey Petrunin and Irina Rogozhina of IceGeoHeat, an international climate research initiative led by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, are the first to establish a connection between heat transfer from the mantle beneath the world’s ice sheets and the rate of ice sheet melting.
August 12, 2013
The government of Kenya is to form a state-owned company that will hold stakes in mines and establish a sovereign wealth fund to manage revenue from the industry. Mining secretary, Najib Balala, says that the government is repealing a law that required at least 35percent domestic ownership, reducing it to 10percent that will be held by the government. The new legislation, creating what will be known as the National Mining Corporation, is expected to be enacted by November. Balala said the government is waiting for the new bill to be approved by cabinet and parliament.
August 11, 2013
Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has called for mining contracts negotiated between governments and mining multinationals to be conducted in a spirit of truth and transparency and to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of benefits for all stakeholders.
August 10, 2013
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation has questioned the list of the most troubled Russian cities on atmospheric contaminations, prepared by RIA Ranking experts and based on the data of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service. In the judgment of ministry officials, used ranging method does not allow an objective assessment of negative impact on the environment. In particular, it ignored such important factors as the contamination area, population density, atmospheric dispersion, motor vehicle emissions, toxic levels.