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August 12, 2024
In Serbia, there are protests against lithium mining by Rio Tinto Corporation. In July 2024, a cooperation agreement between Serbia and the EU in the field of strategic raw materials was signed in Belgrade. First of all, it involves the mining of lithium in the west of Serbia in the Yadar River area, which, as recognized in the European Union, is vital for European countries to reduce dependence on imports from China of lithium batteries and batteries for electric vehicles. Once the agreement was signed, its participants emphasized its importance in every possible way.
August 8, 2024
Terraforming Mars with Metal Nanorods Could Be 5,000 Times Faster than Greenhouse Gas Proposals. esearchers studying concepts for terraforming Mars to make it habitable for possible human colonization have found that using metal nanorods injected into the planet’s atmosphere could accomplish the task 5,000 times faster than popular approaches involving the release of greenhouse gasses.
August 2, 2024
The expert called the attempts to negotiate with Western countries on the AI code a failure. Academician of the RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) Igor Kalyaev believes that artificial intelligence created in those countries that are not part of the "coalition of like-minded countries" and do not share their "values" will be "unethical" and "authoritarian" by definition
July 24, 2024
NASA cancels $450 million VIPER moon rover due to budget concerns. NASA has cancelled its VIPER moon rover program due to rising costs. VIPER, short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, was a robotic mission intended to land near the moon's south pole and spend 100 days scouting for lunar ice deposits. The rover was slated to launch in 2025 to the moon aboard an Astrobotic Griffin lander as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative (CLPS).
July 23, 2024
Geologists have suggested that the Anthropocene could be viewed as an event rather than a geological epoch. For tens of millennia, humans have been influencing many areas of the Earth in all possible ways. However, the degree of this impact has increased in recent times, which is why some geologists in the last century proposed the idea to designate a new epoch in the history of the planet - the Anthropocene.
July 18, 2024
China plans to deflect near-Earth asteroid in 2030. China is looking to get into the planetary defense business. A new paper by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) confirms that in 2030, the country plans to conduct a test mission to deflect a small asteroid from its current course.
July 4, 2024
The Russian government has approved a regulation on state background monitoring of permafrost in the Russian Federation. The Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed the corresponding decree. It is noted that Russia will start conducting long-term observations of the phenomena and processes occurring in permafrost soils, as well as analyzing, assessing, and forecasting the state of permafrost, which applies up to 65 percent of the territory of Russia.
July 1, 2024
Scientists want to pump carbon into a hole at the bottom of the ocean in a $60 million pilot project to help stop climate change. A major solution to the climate crisis may lie at the bottom of the ocean.
Across the planet, basalt rock deposits on the sea floor have the potential to trap carbon dioxide, removing the heat-trapping gas from our atmosphere.
June 27, 2024
“A year of record highs in an energy hungry world”, EI Statistical Review reveals.
The Energy Institute (EI) and co-authors KPMG and Kearney today released the 73rd annual edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy, presenting for the first time full global energy data for 2023.
Five key stories emerge from the 2023 data:
1. Record global energy consumption, with coal and oil pushing fossil fuels and their emissions to record levels
June 27, 2024
The lithium revolution in Bolivia stopped. The coup attempt in Bolivia turned out to be doomed to failure - the ex-commander-in-chief of the Bolivian army was detained by the resolution of the Prosecutor General's office, and the expert believes that the country is now waiting for changes. Who stood behind all this and what were the real motives of the conspirators?