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Storm Alfred has caused massive power outages in eastern Australia, leaving nearly 330,000 homes in the state of Queensland without power, according to announcements made by Australian electricity suppliers. About 310,000 households in southeast...

Argentina is facing devastating floods. At least 16 people have died and dozens are missing in the port city of Bahia Blanca, Argentina, after a violent storm caused massive flooding, authorities said. President Javier Milia declared three days...

The "Counseling Compass for Conspiracy Thinking" program, recently launched by Nancy Faeser, Germany's Interior Minister, is nothing more than a plan to re-educate the population or reinstate the STASI - the former political police of...

Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB) reconfirms its leading position in the field of academic research in Romania, ranking first at national level among universities in terms of attracting funds through the Horizon Europe program. Since...

The "Apocalypse Vault', the global seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, has received another 14,000 seed samples to protect the planet's agricultural biodiversity. The facility,...

A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science suggests that fog harvesting could offer a viable solution to water shortages in extremely arid areas, such as Chile's Atacama Desert. The method, which involves...

The parliamentary elections in Germany, which will take place on Sunday, February 23, are of paramount importance not only for the future of the respective state, but also for that of the European Union and, implicitly, Romania, because the...

Rio de Janeiro is experiencing an unusual heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius, in the context of preparations for the famous carnival, scheduled between February 28 and March 8. Earlier this week, the Brazilian metropolis...

A Eurobarometer survey conducted in the fall of 2024 reveals that 19% of young Romanians claim that they have never been exposed to disinformation in the last week, the highest percentage in the European Union. They are followed by young people...

The strategy of political decision-makers in Brussels regarding the financing of the measures in the Draghi plan, although it also refers to public sources, is based exclusively on private sources, civil society representatives say according to...

Reporter: The funds managed by Karoll Capital Management focus on investments in the Emerging Europe capital markets. What do you think are the main opportunities offered by the markets in this region compared to those in Western Europe or...

A study published in the journal Nature highlights a close historical link between periods of drought and political instability in China, demonstrating that climate change played an essential role in the rise and fall of great Chinese dynasties....

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, announced yesterday, at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, the launch of InvestAI, an initiative designed to mobilize euro200 billion of public and private funds for...

Nearly 200 countries missed the deadline to submit their new roadmaps for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the UN under the Paris Agreement. Only 10 countries met the deadline, raising concerns about the global commitment to combating climate...

The European Council will take a decision in June on the financing of military mobility programmes for the current budgetary framework and, following the decision, the European Parliament will approve either an adjustment to the current budget or...

The municipality of Amsterdam has announced an ambitious measure to combat pollution: banning pleasure boats on its famous tourist canals in the city center. According to an official statement, starting April 1, only electric, hydrogen-powered...

Ianuarie 2025 a fost declarată cea mai caldă lună ianuarie măsurată vreodată la nivel global, conform datelor publicate de observatorul european Copernicus. Recordul anterior, stabilit în ianuarie 2024, a fost depăşit, în pofida încheierii...

January 2025 was declared the warmest January ever measured globally, according to data published by the European observatory Copernicus. The previous record, set in January 2024, was surpassed, despite the end of the El Niño phenomenon,...

The Romanian Geographical Society warns that the discipline Geography ""has disappeared'' from the subjects studied in grades 11 and 12, according to the draft framework plan for high school launched for public debate by the...

For the first time, a massive chunk, almost the size of Paris, has broken off the world's largest iceberg, A23a, according to satellite images analyzed by experts. The phenomenon marks a new stage in the iceberg's drift, which is being...

The interventions of European officials and civil servants in Brussels to censor the online environment, including content on social networks, were harshly criticized by MEP Gheorghe Piperea at the second edition of the "Make Europe Great...

Meteorologists announce that January 2025 is on track to become one of the warmest months in Moscow's history, with temperatures well above seasonal average. Records were broken earlier in the week, and on Wednesday the thermometers did not...

Comunitatea globală a investitorilor este dominată de o viziune limitată despre schimbările climatice şi sustenabilitate, care alimentează o orientare către performanţă pe termen scurt în detrimentul beneficiilor pe termen lung din investiţiile...

Ireland is facing a major crisis caused by Storm Eowyn, which brought extremely violent winds, reaching an all-time record of 183 km/h on the west coast. More than 500,000 households were left without power, and the country is paralyzed by these...

The missing of some climate change targets is confirmed by several institutions. Global average temperatures have exceeded the internationally agreed 1.5 degrees Celsius target in the past two years, an EU monitor said, with the Earth recording...

Major disasters are wake-up calls from which people must draw the right conclusions. The fires in the US are a wake-up call related to the structure of large cities and climate change. The catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, exacerbated by the...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a powerful message to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, highlighting the major dangers facing humanity. He compared the current situation to the myth of Pandora, warning that global actions and...

Strengthening national security and the economy are the main arguments invoked by President-elect Donald Trump, in a press conference held at the Mar-a-Lago residence, for bringing Greenland and the Panama Canal under US control, according to the...

The threats to flora and fauna are increasingly diverse and complex. A quarter (24%) of freshwater wildlife, including crustaceans, fish and insects, face a ""high risk of extinction'' due to ""considerable...

Environmental protection is a concern for a large majority of the citizens of this country. There is confirmation of this: 88% of Romanians believe that climate change has an impact on their daily lives (11 points more than the European average...

Schimbările climatice determină ierni mai blânde, cu un număr mai mare de zile în care temperaturile depăşesc 0 grade Celsius, potrivit unui raport publicat de Climate Central şi citat de AFP. Fenomenul are implicaţii majore asupra turismului,...

Trouble never comes alone, not even in climate issues. The ways in which people consume and feed themselves are causing "interconnected" crises that affect biodiversity, climate and health, threatening the survival of essential ecosystems...

Climate change is causing milder winters, with a greater number of days in which temperatures exceed 0 degrees Celsius, according to a report published by Climate Central and cited by AFP. The phenomenon has major implications for tourism,...

Fitch revised the outlook of our country's long-term foreign currency credit rating from "stable" to "negative" and maintained the rating at "BBB-", in a climate marked by political uncertainty, expectations of a more...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed, during a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that the climate emergency is essentially an unprecedented health crisis. Climate...

Big initiatives do not always lead to positive results. Negotiations at the UN Conference to Combat Desertification, COP16, have ended without reaching a binding agreement to combat the phenomenon. The talks ended a day later than planned, as...

The year 2025 could become one of the three warmest years ever recorded globally, according to the British agency Met Office. The estimates come after a year 2024 that could break all temperature records, exceeding for the first time the...

Arctica, o regiune deosebit de vulnerabilă la efectele schimbărilor climatice, emite mai mult dioxid de carbon (CO2) decât stochează, conform unui raport american publicat recent de Administraţia Naţională Oceanică şi Atmosferică (NOAA). Această...

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...