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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,...

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...

What was expected, according to forecasts, will be officially recorded. 2024 will be the warmest year on record, and extraordinarily high temperatures are expected to persist at least into the first months of 2025, European Union scientists said...

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...

Plastic pollution has reached unprecedented levels. Four global policies could eliminate almost all plastic pollution on Earth, according to a study conducted with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) by researchers at the University of...

Environmentalists are outraged by the conclusions reached after COP29. The environmental organization Greenpeace criticized the new agreement signed in Baku at the UN Climate Change Conference, saying that negotiators gave in to the interests of...

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...

Digitalization, decarbonization and circular economy are essential pillars in the global economic and social transformation.

The world is warming and almost everyone is feeling it. 2024 will almost certainly be the warmest year on record, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. The data was released ahead of the UN climate...

At a time when our planet is undergoing irreversible transformations, experts warn that it is vital that humanity takes concrete measures to protect biodiversity. Reports from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services...

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...

The duration and frequency of heat waves in Romania have increased significantly in recent decades, and projections point to an increasingly hot future. By 2040, approximately 50% of the urban population will be affected by extreme temperatures,...

Crude oil futures have risen in recent weeks on international exchanges amid heightened geopolitical tensions and high market volatility, according to analysts at JPMorgan Commodities Research, who believe Brent oil prices could reach an average...

Water is one of the vital resources of life which is heavily affected by pollution.

More than half of global electricity will come from low-carbon sources by the end of this decade, according to a report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While this development marks major progress towards decarbonisation, the...

Germany's renewable energy sector continues to expand, with electricity generated by wind, solar biomass, biomass and hydroelectric power accounting for 56% of total electricity consumption in the first nine months of this year, according to...

Climate change has doubled the risk of torrential rains like those that recently caused devastating floods in Central Europe, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group. The report stresses the need for...

The member states of the United Nations (UN) pledged at the end of last week to create a better future for humanity faced with the multiple challenges of wars, poverty and climate change, by adopting the so-called "Pact of the Future"....

The international transport and logistics company Gebruder Weiss expanded its network of logistics terminals in Romania by inaugurating, yesterday, in Popeşti-Leordeni, a new logistics hub, for the realization of which it spent 20 million euros....

Despite many countries switching from fossil fuels to cleaner ones, global coal consumption will reach an all-time high of 164 Exajoules (EJ) in 2023, according to a Visual Capitalist analysis highlighting coal's role in the energy mix...

• "We can expect the stabilization trend on the operational side of OMV Petrom to continue in the second half of 2024" 

Oil and products made from this raw material represent, on average, 30% of global merchandise exports, valued at 1.5 trillion dollars annually, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis.

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The member states of the European Union have financed the Kremlin regime with almost 200 billion euros, from the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine until now, through the lens of fossil fuels purchased directly or indirectly from the Russian...

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 European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide Deutsche Bank with guarantees of 500 million euros to help the lender support Europe's wind energy industry, the two organizations and the European Commission announced yesterday, according to...

The increase in energy production in the strip, regardless of the source, represents "the discovery" of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and the members of the Energy Command in order to reduce blackouts and consumers to permanently benefit...

Humanity is simmering this summer. Temperature records fall one after another. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded, the EU's climate change monitoring service announced. This continues a series of exceptional temperatures that,...

Există anumite lucruri promovate intens pe diverse canale, care fac foarte mult rău sănătăţii oamenilor. Tutunul, alimentele ultraprocesate, combustibilii fosili şi alcoolul, promovate de lobby-urile din domeniul industrial, sunt responsabile...

There are certain things heavily promoted on various channels that are very harmful to people's health. Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol, promoted by industry lobbies, are responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year in...

Greed, bad decisions, wrong experiments have caused immense damage to nature. Humans, guilty of climate warming, represent the same "danger" for our planet as "the meteorite that exterminated the dinosaurs", declared the UN...

Protecting nature costs more and more. Global investments in clean energy infrastructure and technology are expected to reach $2 trillion this year, double the amount for fossil fuels, according to a report by the International Energy Agency...

China was the largest extractor of domestic raw materials in the world in 2023, according to data from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), taken by Statista. The Asian country extracted a total of 34.2 billion tons of raw materials,...

Rare fossils of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex have been excavated in the swamplands of North Dakota - a discovery worthy of attention for the scientific knowledge it could provide about the life and history of this famous dinosaur species and for...

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...

Solar power accounted for three-quarters of the capacity additions to renewable energy production units worldwide in 2023, according to visualcapitalist.com, which notes that most of this expansion took place in Asia, the EU and the US,...

It has become a habit that almost every month we experience is the warmest on record. All we have to do is set every record. April 2024 was no exception. The world just had its warmest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which each...

April started with unbearable temperatures in certain regions of the world. According to a study, the unbearable heat wave that hit the Sahel region at the beginning of April is linked to "anthropogenic" climate change, scientists from...

Through the National Recovery and Resilience Program (PNRR), Romania has committed to carrying out tax reform in 2025. Until the elections for the Romanian Parliament in December 2024, citizens would have the opportunity to participate in an...