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1101.On the sites of shell explosions near Donetsk EPL environmentalists revealed the whole Mendeleev periodic table of elements (2015-04-10)
... International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) continues studying the impact of military actions in Eastern Ukraine on the environment. EPL environmentalists study the changes in the environment, in particular in soils, concentrations of mobile forms of heavy metals that can migrate into plants and human organisms, and unsolvable forms of metals. ...
1102.Environmental education for judges (2015-04-08)
... On 16 March 2015, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” started realization of the project “Improvement of access to justice in the sphere of protection of environmental rights of citizens and the environment” funded by USAID. In view of the fact that environmental rights are directly related to the basic human right – the right to life... ...
1103.Climate change, plant roots may accelerate carbon loss from soils (2015-04-07)
... Soil, long thought to be a semi-permanent storehouse for ancient carbon, may be releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere faster than anyone thought, according to Oregon State University soil scientists. In a study published in this week’s online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers showed that chemicals emitted by plant roots act... ...
1104.Under the microscope, strong-swimming swamp bacteria spontaneously organize into crystals (2015-04-07)
... Insects form swarms, fish school, birds flock together. Likewise, one species of bacteria forms dynamic, living crystals, says new research from Rockefeller University. Biophysicists have revealed that fast-swimming, sulfur-eating microbes known as Thiovulum majus can organize themselves into a two-dimensional lattice composed of rotating cells, the first known example of bacteria spontaneously forming such a... ...
1105.Where is the world’s greenest city? (2015-04-02)
... It’s easy to say we’d like our cities to be cleaner and greener. But what does that even mean? “Greenness” is a concept that’s hard to pin down – there’s no official list of the top 50 most eco-friendly cities, nor any widely agreed set of measurements for working out how green a city actually... ...
1106.UK’s most endangered butterfly back from the brink (2015-04-02)
... The critically endangered high brown fritillary had its best summer in a decade in 2014, with numbers rising 180% in a year thanks to conservation efforts The high brown fritillary butterfly was once common in woodlands across England and Wales. Photograph: Iain H Leach/Butterfly Conservation ...
1107.Polar bears face starvation as unlikely to adapt to a land-based diet, says report (2015-04-02)
... New research casts doubt on the theory that polar bears could survive habitat loss as sea ice declines by foraging for food on land Polar bears will not be able to get enough calories from land-based food, says a new report Photograph: Justin Hofman/Barcroft Media ...
1108.Fossil-fuel divestment is not the way to reduce carbon emissions (2015-03-25)
... or two decades I lived in Vietnam, leading research into the health challenges affecting low and middle-income countries. It is clear from my personal and professional experience that environmental change, including climate change, is among the most significant of these: rising temperatures, altered weather patterns, urbanisation and habitat loss have serious implications for nutrition, disasters... ...
1109.Inside the Guardian – how we started the debate about climate change (2015-03-25)
... The Guardian’s climate change campaign launched last week and already more than 100,000 readers have pledged their support. Keep it in the ground journalist Emma Howard explains what’s been going on behind the scenes The Keep it in the ground journalists debate climate change with editor-in-chief Alan Rushbridger. Photograph: Guardian ...
1110.Shell oil drilling in Arctic set to get US government permission (2015-03-25)
... Controversial decision expected from US interior secretary likely to spark protests from campaigners against Anglo-Dutch exploration in seas off Alaska A Greenpeace activist covers the Shell logo in May 2012. Photograph: Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty ...
