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The UN climate change conference, COP29, opened in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, with a call for global cooperation as developing countries seek hundreds of billions of dollars in assistance. The limited presence of G20 leaders and the...

CN AIIR 2024 - ediţia 59 s-a încheiat cu succes, iar gazdă a fost din nou, după trei ani, pitorescul oraş Sinaia, locul tradiţional de întâlnire al inginerilor de instalaţii din România pentru aproape 6 decenii. Peste 300 de participanţi au fost...

Weather events generated by climate change continue to cause major damage to the global economy, with a total cost of more than $2 trillion over the past decade, according to a report by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). An estimated...

Romradiatore Braşov (RRD), a company controlled by Transilvania Investments (TRANSI) in which the coach of the Romanian football team, Mircea Lucescu, has a 16.5% stake, reported for the first nine months of the year, total revenues of 20.2...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is significantly accelerating the demand for high-performance data centers, but the growth of these facilities brings with it new challenges in terms of energy efficiency and sustainability. According to a Goldman...

Schimbările climatice afectează regiuni tot mai mari de pe glob, nici ţara noastră nu face excepţie. Criza climatică globală a atins un punct critic, evidenţiat de datele din 2023, care arată o creştere a temperaturii medii globale cu 1,48°C faţă...

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...

One of the main holiday destinations for Romanians, Greece, has faced major challenges this year. The country faced in 2024 the "most difficult year from a climate point of view in the last 40 years'', a year during which vegetation...

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,...

Trimestrul al treilea al acestui an a fost unul marcat de o serie de provocări majore pentru economia României. Temperaturile ridicate din timpul verii au condus la un consum energetic sporit, iar Guvernul a luat măsuri drastice ca să acopere...

The third quarter of 2024 was marked by a series of major challenges for Romania's economy. High summer temperatures have led to increased energy consumption, and the government has taken drastic measures to cover energy needs, including the...

In the face of increasingly frequent and devastating climate threats, an innovative and simple solution is gaining ground: the rapid transfer of money to affected populations via mobile phone. Instead of waiting for a disaster to strike, this...

Ocean warming, considered a crucial indicator of climate change, has accelerated significantly since 2005, a new report from Europe's Copernicus Observatory shows. More than a fifth of the world's ocean surface has been affected by...

Schneider Electric anunţă lansarea PowerLogic Heat Tag, un senzor inovator conceput pentru a detecta supraîncălzirile apărute accidental în interiorul tablourilor electrice. Heat Tag analizează temperatura şi parametri de calitate a aerului din...

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....

Gruparea de baschet Miami Heat a emis un comunicat în care îşi exprimă indignarea faţă de comentariile fostului preşedinte al Statelor Unite, Donald Trump, care a descris comunitatea haitiană drept "devoratoare de animale".

The modernization and development of the energy transport and distribution networks for which an estimated financing of between 9.2 and 11.5 billion euros is needed and the achievement of storage capacities of at least 1.2 Gigawatts (GW) by 2030,...

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...

The European Commission paid to the EU member states, in the first three years, of the total amount of 724 billion euros foreseen in the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RMR), only 213 billion euros, which represents only a third of the funding...

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

A team of biologists, veterinarians and fishermen in Brazil briefly captured rare freshwater dolphins in the Amazon to study their health, hoping to avoid a repeat of the deaths of hundreds of such mammals last year due to severe drought, reports...

Nature is increasingly difficult to control. Sydney, Australia's flagship city, is "vulnerable" to rising ocean levels in the context of global warming, according to a new government report. The state of New South Wales, where the...

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...

Confirmation of the weather records set this hot summer is coming from several directions. Last month was the hottest July on record and marked the 14th consecutive monthly temperature record, according to a US agency. 2024 currently has a 77%...

Heatwave kills people, that's the reality. No matter how many measures are taken, there are casualties, but there is also a development of adaptive capacity. A team of scientists estimates that more than 47,000 people will die in Europe in...

The middle of the calendar summer constituted a real challenge for the national energy system, in view of the increase in electricity consumption due to a prolonged period of 10 consecutive hot days, when temperatures of over 40 degrees in the...

Tourists from all over the world faced very high temperatures this summer during their holidays in one of the most popular European holiday destinations. Greece faced the hottest July in recorded history, according to preliminary weather data,...

Temperature records are no longer uncommon, but they must be marked. July 2024 was the hottest month ever recorded in China since the beginning of meteorological measurements, Chinese state media announced, as the heat wave affects several areas...

The National Veterinary Sanitary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) announced, yesterday, through a press release, that in our country there are 37 active outbreaks of plague of small ruminants, with a total of 218,756 affected animals. Of these,...

Wildfires are spreading more and more across the globe. Spain entered this unwanted map. Hundreds of firefighters assisted by water-bombing aircraft are struggling to bring under control two wildfires that have been raging in eastern Spain since...

Canicula şi poluarea îşi pun amprenta pe actuala ediţie a Jocurilor Olimpice. Primele probleme au început să apară şi aici nu e vorba doar de disconfortul termic ci şi de amânarea unor probe. Termometrele au indicat valori foarte ridicate în...

Heatwave and pollution leave their mark on the current edition of the Olympic Games. The first problems started to appear, and here it is not only a matter of thermal discomfort, but also of the postponement of some tests. The thermometers...

Records are made to fall. In the field of weather records, things change with astonishing rapidity. Sunday, July 21, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to preliminary data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change...

The heatwave during this month showed the limits of the national energy system, limits that the Government seeks to solve with firefighting measures, which energy experts claim are only valid in the short term and do not solve the systemic...

Due to the existence of an oligopoly in the energy balancing market, which imposes ever higher prices, a significant part of the energy suppliers could close their doors in the next three months, if the Government, the Ministry of Energy or the...

The contract for the start of the renovation works of the Vidraru Hydropower Plant (AHE) was signed, yesterday, in the presence of the Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu and the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja.

Tourism is facing problems related to the heat wave and its effects. Greece, a country that fears devastating fires this summer, has already suffered "more than twice as many" fires in June than in the same month of 2023 due to...

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,...

The favorite holiday destination of many Europeans, Greece did not escape the curse of fires this year either. Despite the measures there are still problems. Violent wildfires that broke out in the suburbs of Athens on Sunday "are under...

The European Commission yesterday gave the green light, in terms of technical and nuclear security aspects, to the construction of Units 3 and 4 at Cernavodă, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Energy. The quoted source shows...