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The retreat of glaciers due to global warming could intensify volcanic activity in several regions of the world, warns a new study presented at the Goldschmidt 2025 Conference in Prague. According to the research led by Pablo Moreno Yaeger, a...

A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge is testing a new material with potential to revolutionize air conditioning systems: a solid, white, waxy paste with barocaloric properties that could completely replace the greenhouse gas...

The warming of the entire planet is being confirmed from more and more places. Meteorologists say that the situation is alarming, especially since the upward trend in temperatures is maintained. The average temperature on the Earth's surface...

The planet's oceans reached the highest temperatures ever recorded in 2024, according to a recently published study cited by the DPA agency. The records apply to both surface temperatures and heat stored down to depths of 2,000 meters,...

The Arctic, a region particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, is emitting more carbon dioxide (CO2) than it stores, according to a US report recently published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This...

The Government adopted the new Energy Strategy of Romania 2025-2035, with the perspective of 2050, a programmatic document that establishes six essential strategic objectives for the sustainable development of the national energy sector: energy...

Natural phenomena, including extreme ones, are linked. Record-breaking ocean temperatures increased the maximum wind speeds that accompanied all hurricanes formed in the Atlantic in 2024, according to a study, thus confirming that global warming...

Drones can do good things too, they are not just weapons of war. Authorities in the Indian capital, New Delhi, have tested a prototype of a sprinkler drone to combat the most resistant points of air pollution. The metropolis of 30 million...

In 2023, greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new records, a phenomenon that, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), will lead to inevitable increases in global temperatures in the coming years. The main...

Climate change is affecting more and more regions around the world, and our country is no exception. The global climate crisis has reached a critical point, highlighted by data from 2023, which shows an increase in the average global temperature...

Any warming of the planet beyond the 1.5°C threshold, even temporarily, could cause "irreversible consequences" for the future of humanity, warns a large study published in the journal Nature. The research, carried out over three years by...

There are also great victories in the fight against environmental degradation. The ozone layer, essential for protecting life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, is in a constant process of regeneration, according to a recent report by...

Transelectrica (TEL), a company that doubled its net profit in the second quarter, Digi Communications (DIGI), which also had a very large increase in profitability, and BRK Financial Group (BRK), which passed from big loss to profit, are among...

Airplane traffic is once again disrupted by natural phenomena. Mount Etna has erupted, causing the closure of the airport in Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily, the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) reported, informs...

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 Federation of Associations of Energy Utility Companies (ACUE) requests the Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) to establish for the operators of natural gas distribution networks a remuneration rate for the invested capital different from that...

The fight against pollution has reached the methane emissions of animals. The situation seems strange to say the least, but the scientific data is quite relevant. Denmark will become the first country in the world to tax the carbon emissions of...

Given that Europe has only 9% of the necessary raw materials, sustainability is an essential condition for the construction sector, argue the specialists of the Strabag company who work in the Zublin Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Germany and...

There are also great victories on the environmental front, even if skepticism about the possible successes is fashionable. International commitments to protect the ozone layer are paying off, atmospheric concentrations of a family of harmful...

Meteorologists are rolling out information related to new and new records, and the studies are not encouraging at all. The big problem is that things are expected to get even hotter. Last summer was just the hottest on record, the hottest in...

Although our country is a net exporter of electricity, this export is done at low prices and that business does not represent an advantage either for the state or for the final consumers paying for green certificates, Silvia Vlăsceanu, executive...

The delays regarding the payment by the state of compensation for energy facts could increase significantly after the Government's approval of the draft normative act that will amend GEO 27/2022 through which the capping-compensation...

Volcanic activity manages to cause concern even though it is relatively common. One can never predict with certainty what the effects will be. La Cumbre volcano, located on the uninhabited island of Fernandina in the Galapagos tourist...

The waste suffocates nature and most of the time the authorities assist impassively.

In the conditions of the volatility of the energy market after the start of the war in Ukraine by the Russian Federation two years ago, the company Tenaris Silcotub SA will build a photovoltaic park in Calarasi, with a nominal power of 19.8...

The second edition of EnergyFEST, the largest event dedicated to green energy and sustainability, will take place between March 14-16, 2024, at Politehnica Bucharest, which will present the latest technological discoveries in the field of clean...

Natura uimeşte în continuare prin modul cum reuşeşte să regleze anumite procese. Groenlanda absoarbe mai mult metan - un puternic gaz cu efect de seră care accelerează încălzirea climei - decât emite, potrivit unii studiu realizat de...

Nature continues to amaze with how it manages to regulate certain processes. Greenland absorbs more methane - a powerful greenhouse gas that accelerates climate warming - than it emits, according to a study conducted by the University of...

Climate change disproportionately affects poorer nations. Celeste Saulo (Argentina), the first woman appointed to lead the UN agency for meteorology and climate, aims to prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable countries facing the...

The environment is in an extremely delicate balance, where even the slightest change can cause a major disaster. A team of Franco-Swiss researchers has, for the first time, simulated the entire greenhouse effect process that can transform a...

The world map has its share of black spots, areas where ecosystems are relatively unknown. Hundreds of scientists gathered in Dubai for the UN Climate Summit COP28 have launched a research coalition aimed at addressing a historic information gap...

Humanity is facing increasingly numerous threats, many of which are self-inflicted, and nature seems less willing to aid humans. Experts argue that we have reached a point of no return, and if humanity does not realize the gravity of the...

A recent study by an American professor deals a heavy blow to plans to replace coal with liquefied natural gas (LNG) in power and thermal power plants.

Asia is the most polluted continent, and uncontrolled industrialization is to blame for this situation. A high level of pollution is expected to persist in Beijing and the surrounding regions until mid-November, as announced by state media...

Poor air quality shortens life expectancy. There are plenty of examples of this. The air quality in the capital of India deteriorated at the beginning of this week when pollution levels reached their highest this year after weak winds in the cold...

Damage to nature has been done, claim more and more experts. The West Antarctic ice sheet will continue to melt in this century, no matter how much humanity reduces emissions of gases causing our planet's warming, according to researchers...

Record hunters can be satisfied because they are living in the midst of one. This year is on track to become the hottest ever recorded, with the average global temperature recorded so far in 2023 being 0.52 degrees Celsius higher than the...