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• 1. Corruption 

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,...

Humans have been polluting nature since ancient times, this is the conclusion of a study. Human-caused environmental contamination with lead in the Aegean region began approximately 5,200 years ago, about 1,200 years earlier than previously...

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...

Veştile bune circulă la fel de repede ca şi cele rele. Ritmul defrişărilor în Amazonia braziliană a scăzut cu 30,6% într-un an, între august 2023 şi iulie 2024, o evoluţie prezentată drept un succes pentru preşedintele Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,...

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...

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...

Human activity often has a boomerang effect. A new study has found that large-scale deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is fueling the spread of malaria. Researchers from the United States and Brazil analyzed data from 2003 to 2022 and found...

Daily expenses scare Romanians more than environmental issues. According to a new report entitled "State of the Climate - Romania 2024", only 4% of Romanians consider climate change to be the most important issue of our time, compared to...

Wildlife populations across the planet have suffered a shocking 73% decline in just 50 years, according to WWF's latest Living Planet Report. This dramatic loss signals the highest level of nature degradation in the Anthropocene era, fueling...

The first quarter of the 21st century brought great transformations and challenges for humanity. Rapid technological progress, climate change, geopolitical tensions, and social and cultural revolutions have created a context in which collective...

• EU Harvest Decline 

Regulamentul Comisiei Europene 1115/2023 privind produsele provenite din defrişări (European Union Deforestation Regulation - EUDR) care interzice comercializarea, în spaţiul comunitar, de produse provenite din zone defrişate, dar şi exportul...

Forests are being cut down at an accelerated rate all over the world, the disease is not exclusively indigenous. The "lung of the world" began to suffer from deforestation. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased in July for the...

Road traffic will be closed during the day in the Olt Valley between July 8 and August 9, due to clearing works necessary for the construction of lot 2 of the Sibiu-Pitesti Highway, Sorin Grindeanu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, said...

Even though reforestation is a difficult operation, being expensive, difficult to plan and difficult to execute, without taking into account the associated environmental obstacles - weather, pests and natural calamities - some countries have...

Robusta coffee futures hit a new record high on the London Stock Exchange on Friday, amid fears that the poor harvest will cause a shortage of coffee beans, according to Bloomberg.

The problems facing nature are increasing. The changes are approaching a critical point. Much of the Amazon rainforest, a crucial climate regulator and precious reserve of biodiversity, could pass a "tipping point" by 2050 due to drought,...

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...

Pollution of a river by a company, pollution that would have serious consequences - for example, intoxication of several people or even the death of some of them - will be punished with a maximum of 10 years in prison for the individual...

Negotiations for environmental protection are far from simple. The countries hosting the world's three major tropical forests have agreed to cooperate in limiting deforestation and protecting biodiversity, but they have not succeeded in...

Problems never come alone. The poisoning of nature immediately turns against people who do it for economic reasons or out of ignorance.

Calls from major international organizations regarding environmental protection and pollution control are becoming more frequent. Every fraction of a degree and every ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) counts in limiting global warming, says the UN. The...

This is the penultimate article in the series relating to the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

President Xi Jingping was heavily criticised for not attending the CO26 conference in Glasgow . Now we know that he was negotiating with the U.S.A. throughout the same period and on Wednesday the two counties surprised the world with a climate...

Denied, minimized, covered-up, the looting of the domestic forests comes to light in all its hideousness. What the media and regular folks have reported / found is now confirmed at the highest level. The accusations are serious, and the fact that...

Illegal logging is one of the crimes which are the hardest to stamp out in Romania. Between 1990-2011 366,000 hectares forest were cleared, both on the forest districts of the state, as well on private properties, according to the investigation...

The land currently occupied by the Tei Boboc tree nursery in Bucharest could be turned into a residential area comprising apartment buildings as tall as 30 and 45 storeys, which is unprecedented in the city. Dan Trifu, Vice President of the...