In the European Union’s Nature Restoration Plan, set out in the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy to 2030: bringing nature back to our lives (part of the European Green Course), one of the key commitments by 2030 is to plant three billion trees to increase the number of forests and improve their health and resilience. The trees […]
Throughout the history of the Earth, there have been several mass extinctions of animals. But humanity has turned the last of them into a process of unprecedented scale. Let’s check the zoologist, Ph.D. on zoology Vilaly Gryshchenko’s opinion about it. Throughout the existence of the Earth’s biosphere, some species of living beings have appeared, others […]
Vaccination is in full swing in many countries, and travelers are preparing to set off again soon. And while the borders are closed, it is worth thinking about the impact of mass tourism on our planet. Can we travel more environmentally – and not only not harm the environment but also help preserve it? Journalists […]
The Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah (EPAA) has started implementing a coral reef cultivation project in the Al Hamriyah region of Sharjah, WAM reports. The project aims to achieve sustainable development of marine life, increase biological cover and biodiversity, and rehabilitate marine life in the area. The coral reef farming project in the […]
Americans gobbled up fewer fossil fuels in 2020 than they have in three decades, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and coal dropped by 9 percent last year compared to 2019, the most significant annual decrease since the EIA started keeping track in 1949. The COVID-19 pandemic was […]
Majis Industrial Services Company (MISC), an affiliate of Oman Investment Authority, has completed the solar electricity production project at Sohar Industrial Port with a production capacity of 36 kiloWatts per hour, the Arabian Stories reports. In this renewable energy project, electricity production was linked to the water treatment plant supply network in the sea to […]
Plastic pollutes the environment for up to 400 years. Plastic and its increasingly drastic effects on people, animals, and the environment and how we deal with this problem is one of the most significant challenges of our time, but above all of the future. Greenpeace and fischerAppelt created the “Plastic Legacy” campaign to emphasize the […]
In Canada and Russia recently an abnormal heat was observed – almost +50° C. And in Kuwait, one of the warmest countries in the world, it is “more than +70° C in the sun”, according to local media. Has global warming led to this? Will it always be this way now? And is it possible […]
China is a relatively new investor and a specific investor. Along with the Russian and American models of building loyalist blocs in the international arena, China has developed its unique algorithm for economic expansion without being burdened by shared historical memory or the demands of democratic transformation. However, it is essential that potential partners do […]
Humankind lived not in harmony with nature. It destroyed megafauna wherever it appeared, even in primitive times. Let’s get acquainted with zoologist, Ph.D. in zoology Vitaly Gryshchenko’s opinion on how we, humans, become one of the reasons for the disappearance of mammoths and other species. *** Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Green Hills of Africa: […]
