Începe summitul climatic COP30 din Brazilia. De ce este important și care sunt provocările din 2025 în materie de știinţă a climei?

10 November 2025

Tratatul a stabilit, de asemenea, principiul „responsabilităţilor comune, dar diferenţiate”, ceea ce înseamnă că ţările bogate, responsabile pentru cea mai mare parte a emisiilor care contribuie la încălzirea planetei, poartă o responsabilitate mai mare în rezolvarea problemei. Preşedinţia rotativă, deţinută în prezent de Brazilia, stabileşte agenda summitului şi lucrează pe tot parcursul anului pentru a ... Mai mult

Raport global: Peste jumătate dintre indicatorii climatici ai Pământului semnalează o stare critică a planetei

4 November 2025

Concluzia cercetătorilor este că, fără reduceri rapide și semnificative ale emisiilor de gaze cu efect de seră, sistemul climatic global riscă să intre într-o „traiectorie de seră” greu de inversat, conform descopera.ro. „Semnele vitale” ale Pământului includ elemente precum concentrațiile de dioxid de carbon și metan din atmosferă, acumularea de căldură în oceane, creșterea nivelului ... Mai mult

The communities paying the price for Zambia’s toxic mining disaster

22 September 2025

Under a pale mid-morning sun, Frank Nkulu scans his cropland for signs of life. At the start of this year, his vegetables flourished here in Garneton, in Zambia’s Copperbelt province. Now, the once-fertile soil on the outskirts of Kitwe clings to his boots like wet clay. Nkulu, 40, is one of dozens of small-scale farmers ... Mai mult

Plastics talks failure is bad news for the circular economy

15 September 2025

In August, negotiators trying to finalise a treaty on ending global plastics pollution failed to reach an agreement. The draft text that did emerge from Geneva was even weaker than the one that had come out of the last negotiations in Busan, in December 2024. The text had shifted from a legally binding framework to ... Mai mult

Sumitomo Electric Receives Third Consecutive Order for Long-Duration Redox Flow Batteries in Kashiwazaki —Accelerating the City’s Decarbonization Initiative—

15 July 2025

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (hereinafter, “Sumitomo Electric”) has received an order for its redox flow batteries (hereinafter, “RF batteries”) from Kashiwazaki IR Energy Co., Ltd.*1 (hereinafter, “Kashiwazaki IR Energy”), as part of the city’s ongoing initiative to promote and utilize renewable energy. Construction officially began on July 10 following a Shinto-style groundbreaking ceremony held to pray ... Mai mult

Over 26,000 Nairobi youth secure climate jobs

5 July 2025

A total of 26,499 youth in Nairobi County will be recruited to work under the National Climate Work Programme, an initiative by the National government that is geared towards creating jobs and promoting climate resilience through public works. Nairobi County Commissioner David Wanyonyi said that the youth will be engaged in activities along the road ... Mai mult

The homegrown start-ups hoping to solve Africa’s e-waste crisis

19 June 2025

There is no night or day in Ghana’s infamous e-waste graveyard Agbogbloshie. Hundreds of unofficial e-waste pickers scour its sprawling terrain to extract components that contain copper, cobalt, lithium and other precious metals. If it has a circuit board or battery, it is fair game. These components fetch a decent price on the black market, ... Mai mult

How Restored Wetlands Can Protect Europe from Russian Invasion

10 June 2025

In February 2022, as Russian forces launched their invasion of Ukraine, an unlikely weapon shielded Kyiv, the nation’s capital, from swift defeat: a restored wetland. The attackers advanced from Belarus, which lies to the north of the city, using roads that cut through swamps, peatlands, and waterlogged forests along the banks of the Pripjet and ... Mai mult