1. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    November 1975 (INES 5) Sosnowy Bor nuclear power plant, Leningrad, USSR * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de November 4th CO2 | Agriculture | Rock weathering arable land - Agriculture as a means to combat climate change Natural rock weathering removes CO₂ from the atmosphere. Crushed rock approximately...

  2. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    settled for up to $10,9 billion, but still faces nearly 40 Roundup-related lawsuits. * Energy transition | Communication | Agriculture Leaps in development in the Global South: Simply skip mistakes Western industrialized countries have not only made a lot of mistakes in terms of energy policy. What the Global South does better. The global...

  3. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    "Can have problems with energy and electricity," says the political analyst in an interview with DW. Solar energy should be the solution, and not an agreement to build a nuclear power plant... * Agriculture | Biodiversity | Agri-photovoltaics Triple profit is not enough for Solar power from the field Farming and generating solar power on the same area - the concept of...

  4. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    arise on open spaces. In addition to sealed areas, agricultural land is also required for this: according to calculations by the Braunschweig Thünen Institute, probably around 1,7 percent of the area currently used for agriculture. That's 280.000 hectares, an area slightly larger than Saarland. [...] But what is supposed to advance the expansion of renewable energies also has dark sides. So...

  5. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    EU member states are considering extending approval and want to vote on it in the responsible Committee for Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) in mid-October. The German Ministry of Agriculture is critical of renewed approval and describes it as “not justified”. What is Glyphosate? Glyphosate was distributed by Monsanto from 1974. The US chemical company...

  6. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    September 1999 (INES 4) Tōkaimura Nuclear Plant, JPN * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de September 2nd Climate protection | Agriculture | Solar expansion Solar package limits agriculture's contribution to climate protection Agriculture could contribute much more to climate protection than the federal government's solar package allows...

  7. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    could completely transform the Latin American state. Now the country needs a new business model. The referendum in Ecuador changes everything, even the newspaper landscape: “Sustainable agriculture in the Amazon region is part of the solution,” wrote Ecuador’s El Comercio a few days after the sensational Sí in the Yasuní referendum. Quite unusual for the otherwise conservative paper...

  8. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    If this continues, I'm in favor of it." She hopes that there will be "more decent people" who will leave the party. "Nobody needs to say afterwards: I didn't know anything about it."... * Water | Agriculture | Pesticide | Insect small water monitoring: Too many pesticides get into the water Small streams and ditches are not in good condition in Germany. Due to a lack of water protection...

  9. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    Ukrainian journalist Daria Sipigina said she was “shocked by this sermon” on Facebook. “You can't say that Ukraine and Russia are brotherly nations.” August 6th Agriculture | Nature conservation | Mercosur Mercosur: Farmers' Association and the Federation for Nature Conservation demand a stop The Bavarian Farmers' Association and the Federation for Nature Conservation demand that negotiations with South America...

  10. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    The Belgian supervisory authority stopped production in the entire plant and a district sector of 5 kilometers to the northeast was banned from consuming agricultural products for a few days... Institut_national_des_radioéléments An estimated 45 GBq of iodine-131 was released via the chimney. The Belgian nuclear regulator Agence Fédérale de Contrôle...

  11. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    The Hamburg police confirmed an operation at the airport. The airport announced that flight operations had been suspended since 6.10:12 a.m. Takeoffs and landings are currently not possible... July XNUMXth Agriculture | Hunger in Africa | Pesticide expert on the UN hunger report: “There is enough to eat” According to the latest figures, three quarters of a billion people suffer from malnutrition. Africa must...

  12. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    Good thing that needs to be protected and treated with care. The National Water Strategy was intended to bring together water-relevant measures from all important areas for the first time - agriculture and nature conservation, administration and transport, urban development and industry. [...] Who uses the most water in Germany? Most of the water in Germany comes from energy supply (44,2...

  13. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    the Climate Protection Act is unconstitutional. We must now be climate neutral by 2045 at the latest. Neither traffic, industry, electricity, buildings nor agriculture will then be allowed to emit any greenhouse gases. In 2022, the Climate Protection Act was barely complied with. But the traffic has crashed into its destination... * June 18, 1999 (INES 2) Shika,...

  14. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    “It is therefore a sustainable and long-term investment even if the steel industry has completely switched to hydrogen,” explains Tim Schulzke from Fraunhofer UMSICHT. * Nature conservation | Agriculture | EU Parliament | Renaturation law Before decisive vote "Farmers also benefit from renaturation" The EPP group wants to pass the law to restore nature in...

  15. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    called for the planned free trade agreement to be stopped. On April 17, 2023, the International Day of Peasant Resistance, the Working Group for Rural Agriculture (AbL), FIAN and other organizations demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Economics in Berlin against the planned EU-Mercosur agreement... * CO2 storage | trees | Mushrooms | Carbon sink root fungi as...

  16. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    a “break in regulation in Europe”. He is not alone in this: similar warnings about (allegedly) too much “bureaucracy” at the expense of the competitiveness of industry and agriculture come from Belgium. Macron also receives support from the conservative EPP group in the EU Parliament. But climate change is not taking a break. And the environmental policy balance sheet of...

  17. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    so to renaturate. But the project is far from over and done with. How do you experience this in Brussels? There is extreme resistance from the lobbies for intensive forms of agriculture, forestry and fishing, which are very aggressively and openly trying to overturn the law. Unfortunately, they have also been receiving support from the...

  18. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    which counteract police dominance, can hardly achieve justice in practice," say the researchers. May 15th Farmer | Chemical Industry | Biodiversity | Pesticides Agriculture Main cause of decline in European bird populations Europe's bird populations have been declining for decades. Researchers have now investigated how man-made influences such as climate change,...

  19. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    pats himself on the back and always celebrates his own successes, but is threatened that one day he will be left behind. Because he no longer strives forward. * Spain | Temperatures | Agriculture | Drought Is olive oil now becoming a luxury item? Bertolli is the best-selling olive oil brand in the world. Now the parent company Deoleo is warning: If the olive harvest turns out to be bad again,...

  20. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    of plants are lost and more species are threatened with extinction than ever before in human history. In addition to the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems by agriculture, fishing and industry, man-made climate change is increasingly triggering the loss of biodiversity. [...] Protected areas should not be seen as isolated life rafts for...

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