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A recent study published in the journal "Nature Geoscience" suggests that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought and that it has undergone significant structural changes in the past two decades. According to...

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,...

A new study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment warns that a 2°C increase in global temperatures will triple the area of land where heat becomes dangerous even for healthy people. The affected areas could be the size of...

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 Romanian tennis team will play, today and tomorrow, a crucial match in the Davis Cup World Group I play-off, against Bulgaria. The match will take place at the Multipurpose Hall in Craiova. The local men's tennis has not been going...

A team of researchers from Oxford University has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet in the "Super-Earth" category, located 20 light-years from Earth. This one, called HD 20794 d, orbits a star similar to the Sun and could be in the...

The warming of the entire planet is being confirmed from more and more places. Meteorologists say that the situation is alarming, especially since the upward trend in temperatures is maintained. The average temperature on the Earth's surface...

The planet's oceans reached the highest temperatures ever recorded in 2024, according to a recently published study cited by the DPA agency. The records apply to both surface temperatures and heat stored down to depths of 2,000 meters,...

Turkiye, which has recently made a splash in archaeological circles worldwide with groundbreaking discoveries, continues to unveil significant findings through year-round excavations, revealing traces of life from thousands of years ago. 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...

The domino effect is clearly visible in nature. The record-breaking Antarctic ice loss in 2023 has led to an increase in storms over the ice-free Southern Ocean, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The work by Simon Josey, of...

The vastness of outer space hides secrets that are hard to imagine. A study suggests that the Moon is 80 million to 180 million years older than previous estimates. According to the study, published in the journal Nature, rock samples taken from...

Land aridity is a problem with long-term effects and is difficult to solve. About three-quarters of the Earth's surface has become "permanently drier" in recent decades, a new UN study has warned. According to the study by the UN...

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...

Damage caused by extreme weather events is increasing. The 2024 tropical cyclone season was exceptional, with violent storms causing record losses well above the average of the last ten years, according to estimates by the German reinsurance...

Natural phenomena, including extreme ones, are linked. Record-breaking ocean temperatures increased the maximum wind speeds that accompanied all hurricanes formed in the Atlantic in 2024, according to a study, thus confirming that global warming...

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The public debt/GDP ratio is a key indicator of a country's financial health, providing insight into a government's ability to manage its debt, while also shaping the flexibility of fiscal policy and playing a crucial role in influencing...

Europe faces a significant shortage of military personnel and an insufficiency of defense capabilities, despite increased spending on this sector since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, according to a report prepared by the British...

Natural disasters are increasing at an alarming rate, much to people's concern. The catastrophic floods that killed at least 72 people in Spain were caused by a destructive weather system in which cold and warm air meet to produce heavy rain...

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...

Norway supports the purchase of a Patriot system by our country with 127 million dollars, the Ministry of National Defense announced yesterday, through a press release, after the decision-makers in Bucharest decided to donate such a system to...

The BRICS summit that is taking place these days in Kazan, Russia, also has on its agenda the request made by Turkey to acquire the status of a full member of that economic organization, after until now it had observer status. Turkish President...

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

Australia will quadruple the area of the vast marine protected area around Heard and McDonald islands, located near Antarctica, where penguins, seals and whales live, the government announced on Tuesday, reports AFP. This measure represents a...

Cyber criminals' weapons are multiplying. In a report published by HP Inc., cybersecurity experts have revealed a malware campaign targeting French speakers that uses malicious code generated with the help of generative artificial...

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...

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...

If the Russian drones that flew over Romania's airspace on the night of Saturday to Sunday had targets on the territory of our country, they would have been shot down by F-16 planes, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said yesterday, before the...

Specialists in ocean activity have noticed a thermal anomaly in the surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean, which are unusually cold for this time of the year, a phenomenon that began to manifest itself as early as May. This accelerated cooling,...

Antarctica, one of the most isolated and fragile regions on the planet, faces a new threat: the arrival of non-native marine species and marine pollution from other continents in the southern hemisphere. These risks are highlighted by a new study...

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are causing excitement and concern around the world. The indisputable stars of these military conflicts are the weapons, sent to the involved parties from all areas of the world. Peace is desired, but war is fueled...

The monitoring by means of the Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 satellites (of the Copernicus program), of the agricultural plots in our country, led to the discovery last year of 453 farmers who intended to defraud the subsidies granted from European...

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...

Changes in temperature greatly influence life on this planet. The water temperature in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has reached its highest level in 400 years in the last decade, according to a study. Water temperatures have risen every...

George Simion, the president of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians and candidate of this party in the presidential elections of November 24, offers houses to all the people. Simion's offer? 35,000 euros for a two-room apartment of 50-52...

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 reemergence of the Cold War in Europe seems a close alternative, if we consider recent statements regarding the gradual deployment by the US of medium and long-range missiles in Germany, starting in 2026, as decided at the NATO Summit in in...

Good news also comes from the "front" where the fight against pollution is taking place. The amount of dust in the atmosphere decreased slightly in 2023, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced, warning that poor...

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...