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    Iran: Autumn rains likely to start later than normal
    06 Jul 2021

    Autumnal rainfall this year is likely to start later than usual in the country. Hence the drought period will be prolonged, Ahad Vazifeh, head of the national center for drought and crisis management, has said for Tehran Times. Since the beginning of the current water year (September 23, 2020), the whole country received 130 millimeters […]

    Iran elected as World Ocean Assessment representative

    Iranian scientist, Mehdi Qodrati Shojaei has been elected as the Asia-Pacific representative in the second World Ocean Assessment working group, IRNA reported on Sunday. Qodrati Shojaei is a faculty member at Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran Times reports. The Second World Ocean Assessment (WOA II) is the significant output of the second cycle of the Regular […]

    The Saudi experts to find a pathway to implement UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

    The Saudi Green Building Forum will host a virtual event alongside the UN’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, to be held between July 6-15, as part of the continued fight against the persistent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Arab News reports. The event, which seeks a “sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that […]

    The EU bans the sale of disposable plastic products

    From July 3, disposable products made of plastic should completely disappear from sale in the European Union. This is provided by the EU directive banning plastic utensils adopted in 2019, the dpa news agency reports. The ban came into force on disposable spoons, forks, knives, plates, drinking straws, cotton swabs, sticks for stirring, and holding […]

    Three predictions: technologies that will change our lives by 2050

    We live in an era of rapid technological development. Almost every day, there is news about another know-how, thanks to which life will turn upside down. But sometimes, it is difficult to say what is in front of us – the next breakthrough or something insignificant. To find out which of today’s growing technologies will […]

    The future studies experts: who needs their skills?

    Let’s check what European futurists have told Chas News what their work is, why the future is like a multiverse and whether futurology can be considered a science. The veil of secrecy has always separated us from the future. It is difficult for a person to accept his or her ignorance because any secret can […]

    The deadly business: July 4th marks the World Day for Captive Dolphins

    World Day for Captive Dolphins is held annually on 4 July to remember those animals confined in captivity and others which continue to be taken from the wild in marine parks and aquariums. This day is an opportunity for us to remember the plight of the thousands of whales, dolphins, and porpoises held in captivity […]

    The environmental damage of the first war in Iraq

    There has been much debate about Iraq – but not about the considerable environmental damage which a war would cause. Duncan McLaren and Ian Willmore of Friends of the Earth assess the evidence. This article was published by The Guardian on January 19, 2003 – but there’s still no peace in Iraq and especially in […]

    Saudi scientists testing cryogenic technology to freeze carbon emissions
    05 Jul 2021

    A team of scientists at Jeddah-based King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is testing a technique for freezing greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants that is about half the cost of existing carbon capture techniques, Bloomberg and Arab News reported. The cryogenic technology was developed by Sustainable Energy Solutions, a private company based in Salt […]

    Biodiversity loss will cost the world $2.7 trillion annually

    The global economy could lose about $ 2.7 trillion annually due to biodiversity loss by 2030 due to the impact on fish food and wood from forests. This is stated in the calculations of the World Bank, according to Bloomberg. At the same time, the World Bank noted, the current economic forecasts are too optimistic, […]