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The European Commission presented the project of a new level of environmental standards “Euro-7”. However, it received a lot of criticism from automakers and automotive industry experts. From 2015 until today, the Euro-6 norms are in effect. These norms are mandatory for the manufacture and sale of new vehicles in the territory of the European […]
Located in the North Sea, the world’s largest offshore wind farm Hornsea 2 is fully operational. It will provide electricity to more than 1.4 million households in Great Britain. This is stated in the press release of the Orsted company, which was engaged in the implementation of the project. Hornsea 2 Power Station is located […]
In the occupied Energodar in the Zaporizhzhia region (Ukraine), the russians occupiers are trying to provoke an environmental catastrophe by shooting at themselves. This was reported by the Telegram channel of the Operational ZSU. “According to reports from residents, the orcs are currently shelling the Zaporizhzhia NPP in Energodar with barrel and rocket artillery. Ukrainian […]
More than 5,000 dolphins died as a result of Russia’s actions in the Black Sea. Scientists of the National Park ‘Tuzlivski Lymani’ are now planning to create a Center for the rehabilitation of mammals. A large reserve in the Black Sea is planned to be created for the rehabilitation of dolphins, which also became victims […]
A team from the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) built a prototype of a passenger electric car, which not only does not cause significant damage to the environment, but also absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere directly during the trip. The authors estimate that the car will absorb more gas than is released during its […]
Construction of the world’s largest CO2 air purification factory has begun in Iceland. The installation of 80 fan units, called Mammoth, is assembled by Swiss startup Climeworks, one of the leaders in the field of Direct Air Capture (DAC). Mammoth is an order of magnitude more powerful than the similar Orca plant that has been […]
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the second reading a bill on waste management (№2207-1d), which introduces a modern European approach to waste management and aims to address the problem of mass landfill. This was announced by the Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov. The adopted bill 2207-1-d establishes […]
The Russian army has turned the occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant into a military base. This was announced by the president of the state company Energoatom Petro Kotin. He said that the Russians had deployed military and heavy equipment – trucks, tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles – at the occupied Zaporizhzhya NPP (infantry fighting vehicle. […]
The European Parliament on Wednesday supported changes to the rules proposed by the European Commission, which provide for a total ban on cars with internal combustion engines until 2035. The initiative was supported by 339 MEPs, 249 opposed and 24 abstained. This was reported by the press service of the European Parliament. According to the […]
Radiation detectors resumed operation in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for the first time since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Most of the 39 detectors that send data from the exclusion zone are now visible on the IRMIS map (International Radiation Monitoring Information System – ed.)”, – said in a statement […]