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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...

The glaciers in Switzerland experienced an accelerated melting this year, exceeding the average of recent years, according to a report by the organization GLAMOS (Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland). This trend continues to draw the attention of...

There is a considerable gap between what the European Union's climate and environmental targets want and what national plans for agriculture say, according to the special report published last night by the European Court of Auditors (ECA)....

Ştefăniţă Munteanu, godson of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, remains the president of the Transelectrica Directorate following the recruitment process that took place in recent months. In addition to Munteanu, the other members of the Directorate...

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...

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...

Climate change is sending shivers down the spines of governments around the world. Things are no different at the Victoria Palace either. Romania has set ambitious goals in the fight against climate change, aiming to achieve climate neutrality...

The National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest (UNSTPB) signed a contract worth over 29 million lei for an ambitious project to install photovoltaic systems on 56 buildings on its campuses. Financed through the...

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, raised the alarm about the major problems facing the planet. Antonio Guterres has issued a global climate "SOS". The Pacific Islands Summit organized by the United Nations...

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%...

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...

The projects regarding the modernization of equipment and the implementation of energy management systems within several companies in our country will be started soon, after yesterday the Ministry of Energy signed 27 financing contracts in this...

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...

• 1st January 

The days are getting longer, scientists say. Imperceptible to humans, but the change is not negligible. Climate change, which causes the melting of the polar ice caps, slows the Earth's rotation very slightly, which increases the length of...

Yesterday, PepsiCo inaugurated the automated warehouse at the snack factory in Popeşti-Leordeni, an investment that amounts to over 100 million dollars. Following the implementation of the project started in 2022, three operational production...

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...

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,...

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...

The central authorities in Bucharest received 1.09 billion euros from the European Union, through the Modernization Fund, for the financing of contracts for difference (CfD), through which the price of electricity will be fixed for a period of 15...

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...

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...

The excessive heat of the past year has raised concern. El Nino, the natural weather phenomenon that added to the warming process and made 2023 the warmest year on record, has come to an end, paving the way for the likely return in the coming...

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...

The second month of spring was a stormy one for the PSD-PNL political coalition, which had to face the media revelations about how the doctor Cătălin Cîrstoiu - the candidate of both parties for the position of general mayor of the Capital - made...

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...

Marine life is in more and more trouble because of climate change and the wave of problems it brings. Several colonies of emperor penguins have again witnessed, in the 2023 season, the death of chicks as a result of the record melting of the...

Climate change is felt by people and confirmed by experts. In 2023, Europe registered a record number of days in which the heat felt by the human body was "extreme", due to a temperature above 35°C-40°C, whose effect on the body was...

France and Canada are the countries that obtain the highest revenues in the world from taxes on CO2 emissions, according to World Bank figures, cited by visualcapitalist.com.

• January 1st 

Less than half of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) prohibit anonymous donations for political financing, according to the data published in the report Anti-corruption and integrity -...

• February 1st 

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

Temperature records are falling at an alarming rate. February 2024 was the warmest month ever recorded worldwide, thus joining a series of nine consecutive monthly records, with temperatures well above normal in Europe, the European Copernicus...

The volume of waste in the world, estimated at 2.3 billion tons in 2023, will continue to grow exponentially if no action is taken, with a massive impact on health and economies, the UN has warned. At this rate, current waste should reach 3.8...

Global warming consumes a lot of resources, including financial ones. "The political momentum could fade" and "the spirit of COP28 must be kept alive", said its president, Sultan al Jaber, calling for the mobilization of not...

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 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...

Artom Steel Tubes anunţă investiţii de peste şase milioane de euro în 2024 pentru optimizarea măsurilor de reducere a emisiilor de carbon şi a consumului de combustibil.