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The number of regions affected by drought globally doubled between 1900 and 2020, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). According to the analysis, droughts have become more frequent, more...

The world has recorded another extremely hot month, with oceans and land continuing to reach "unusually high” temperatures, extending an alarming series of climate anomalies that has lasted for more than two years, according to data...

A new scientific study warns of changing global rainfall patterns. Nearly 2 billion people could face significant changes in water availability if the average global temperature rises by 1.5°C, even temporarily, warns a new study published in the...

The middle of the calendar spring, April, represented a fiery month for the Romanian economy, in light of the pressure put by the presidential elections scheduled for May 4 and 18, but also by the need to take legislative, fiscal and...

Între 14% şi 17% dintre terenurile agricole ale lumii sunt contaminate cu cel puţin un metal greu toxic, avertizează un studiu publicat în jurnalul Science şi citat de AFP. Această contaminare ar putea reprezenta un risc direct pentru sănătatea a...

Between 14% and 17% of the world's agricultural land is contaminated with at least one toxic heavy metal, warns a study published in the journal Science and cited by AFP. This contamination could pose a direct risk to the health of up to 1.4...

Victor Ponta admitted on the podcast "Hai, live! cu Turcescu şi Andronic" that he had deliberately decided to flood some Romanian villages in 2014 so that Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, would not face major floods. Moreover, Ponta...

Livestock farm operator DN Agrar has budgeted operating income of 312.6 million lei for this year, 18% higher than last year, while the estimated net profit is 38.8 million lei, up 22% compared to 2024, according to the issuer's reports...

Livestock farm operator DN Agrar achieved a preliminary consolidated turnover of 175 million lei last year, equivalent to a 16% increase compared to 2023, according to an announcement by the issuer from late last week published on the Bucharest...

Nature saves the budget, an example comes from the Czech Republic. A family of beavers managed to rehabilitate a military site in the Czech Republic for free, thus saving over 1.19 million euros from the public budget. The project, which aimed to...

The year 2024 was marked by economic-financial and socio-political convulsions, which accentuated Romania's vulnerabilities in the face of domestic and international challenges. From the alarming budget deficit to the uncontrolled increase in...

Asset valuations across the US economy remain elevated, fueled by investor optimism as the Federal Reserve (Fed) begins its easing cycle, according to an analysis by visualcapitalist.com.

European entrepreneurs in agriculture, forestry and fisheries will benefit from a total of euro3 billion in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB), according to a press release published yesterday on the financial and banking...

Water shortages or excesses are causing major problems for people. Record-breaking global droughts are becoming "the new norm" forcing world leaders to "radically rethink" how they manage them, the UN warned, publishing a global...

Air pollution caused by fires has become a major global problem, responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths per year, according to a study recently published in the prestigious journal The Lancet. This alarming statistic highlights the...

Increasing subsidies, developing the irrigation system, access to financing and amending the lease law are the main demands of farmers in our country, according to the White Paper on Agriculture 2024 document launched yesterday by the National...

SevenX Ventures, an investment vehicle controlled by Iulian Cîrciumaru, has lent Holde Agri Invest three million lei, according to a report by the agricultural land operator in our country, published on the website of the Bucharest Stock Exchange...

The same electoral program is adopted by two presidential candidates, two opponents who were once together - George Simion and Călin Georgescu both support the "Food-Water-Energy" political program (see Program Summary), which...

Climate-driven migration is a major concern for governments around the world. The global climate crisis is no longer a distant future, but a present reality. Every year, millions of people are forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters...

The world's agri-food systems generate huge hidden costs, estimated at $12 trillion per year, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Modern diseases such as stroke, diabetes and...

Good news travels as fast as bad. The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 30.6% in one year, between August 2023 and July 2024, a development presented as a success for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who promised to fight...

SevenX Ventures, an investment vehicle controlled by Iulian Cîrciumaru, lent Holde Agri Invest the sum of 1.5 million lei, according to a report of the agricultural land operator in our country, published on the website of the Bucharest Stock...

There is a considerable gap between what the European Union's climate and environmental targets want and what national plans for agriculture say, according to the special report published last night by the European Court of Auditors (ECA)....

The insolvency procedure of the Damen Mangalia Naval Shipyard (DSMa) was caused, among other things, by the Covid 19 pandemic which led to the cancellation of some contracts that the company was going to execute, Florin Constantin, Senior Partner...

The world is under the sign of floods. Trouble flows from Europe to Asia. Storm Boris brought chaos and suffering to Central and Eastern Europe, leaving behind huge casualties and property damage. This powerful storm affected several countries,...

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Fires have ravaged vast territories across the globe this year. These fires, fueled by extreme weather conditions and climate change, have caused massive damage and triggered national and international emergency responses. This summer Canada is...

The monitoring by means of the Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 satellites (of the Copernicus program), of the agricultural plots in our country, led to the discovery last year of 453 farmers who intended to defraud the subsidies granted from European...

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

Investments in education are investments in the future. The Minister of Education, Ligia Deca, signed several contracts in Cluj, with a total value of 256 million lei, for the modernization of the university infrastructure. The minister...

The shareholders of Unisem Bucharest are summoned, on July 29, with the proposal of the sale by the company of three buildings for at least 665,000 euros, according to the report of the company with an agricultural profile published, yesterday,...

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) has started work on its new battery factory for electric vehicles in Germany, a spokesperson for the luxury carmaker confirmed to DPA.

The surface right established on the public domain would be granted to a state higher education institution, for public use, without changing the destination or the owner of the property right, according to the draft amendment to the Higher...

Protests by farmers in EU member states were crowned with success yesterday when the European Commission adopted the regulation granting a partial exemption for European farmers from the rule forcing them to leave land fallow (GAEC 8) this year....

President Klaus Iohannis declared, yesterday, from the rostrum of the European Parliament that the court decided that the Financial Supervisory Authority is right in the case of Euroins, after he had been questioned on this issue by two MEPs,...

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...

The transit roads sections of Solidarity do not affect agriculture in Romania, President Klaus Iohannis said yesterday from Brussels, before the extraordinary summit of the European Council, after which the 27 EU member states approved the...