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Severe weather warnings were therefore in effect. In addition to storms and heavy rain, hail is also expected in some places. Experts attribute the increase in natural disasters in the USA - storms, floods and forest fires - to the consequences of climate change. * Russia | Ukraine | Peace treaty Secret peace treaty could have ended Ukraine war after a few weeks Moscow and Kiev were...
declared a legal entity, the Mar Menor. In the USA, a type of rice that is sacred to the indigenous people has been brought to court in a community called Manoomin. In Ecuador, a cloud forest under which raw materials were to be mined sued in court against its deforestation and won. And indigenous people in several Pacific states have recently granted legal entity status to whales...
Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
Occurrence - despite record temperatures worldwide and the promises of many countries to become greenhouse gas neutral in the medium term. The “Global Oil & Gas Exit List” from the environmental protection organization Urgewald lists the companies’ plans. TotalEnergies as well as Shell, Eni, ExxonMobil, BP, Petronas, Chevron and Repsol are all pursuing expansion projects in more than two dozen...
had the legislative proposal behind it, which failed because of the ministers a few days ago. [...] Last but not least, the regulation for deforestation-free supply chains, which was already in the dust, is now up for discussion again. Although it came into force in the middle of last year, it is still in a transitional period. The law is intended to ensure that cocoa,...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
From historical experience, “defensive democracy” is still considered necessary, but the prerequisites have also been formulated... * Ghana | deforestation | Supply chain | Bribes Deforestation in Ghana: Theft of forests for Europe's consumption The EU wants to use a regulation on supply chains to prevent forests that are worth protecting from being cleared. But it doesn't really work. Large trees rise into the...
4 | NAMS 3,8) Hanford nuclear factory, USA December 5, 1965 (Broken Arrow) Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, USA December 6, 1972 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,6) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR December 7, 1975 (INES 3) nuclear power plant Greifswald, GDR December 8, 1955 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR December 10, 1994 (INES 2 class?) Pickering nuclear power plant, ON, CAN December 12, 1952 (INES 5) Chalk River nuclear power plant, Ontario, CAN 16. December...
4 | NAMS 3,8) Hanford nuclear factory, USA December 5, 1965 (Broken Arrow) Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, USA December 6, 1972 (INES 3 | NAMS 1,6) Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR December 7, 1975 (INES 3) nuclear power plant Greifswald, GDR December 8, 1955 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR December 10, 1994 (INES 2 class?) Pickering nuclear power plant, ON, CAN December 12, 1952 (INES 5) Chalk River nuclear power plant, Ontario, CAN 16. December...
Climate protection, indeed a fair coexistence in the world, actually looks like. At the same time, negotiations have been underway for months by a company based in the UAE that wants to buy rights to vast African forest areas in a series of comprehensive compensation deals. An area of at least 25 million hectares of forest is affected, i.e. larger than the United Kingdom, among other things...
The tube will stretch 1445 kilometers through the East African landscape, all the way to Tanzania on the Indian Ocean. With its starting point in Hoima on Lake Albert, it misses the Budongo forest, where the Reynolds are conducting research, by a few kilometers. Not far away, the French energy giant TotalEnergies is planning its Tilenga project. Together with the...
make with his postulate that the state must spend its money cleverly... November 17th CO2 emissions | Certificates | Climate protection projects | Greenwashing fraud with CO2 certificates? Why so many forest projects are a scam If you save a forest from the chainsaw, you can apply for CO₂ certificates - and sell them for a lot of money to companies that offset their emissions, go green...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
to Russia. This is also due to gaps in sanctions. The town of Isny in the Allgäu lies between Munich and Lake Constance. Tourists appreciate it for its healing climate, hikers and hunters for the picturesque forest areas that extend over the foothills of the Allgäu Alps. On the arterial road to the east, right on the edge of the forest, is the company that offers the accessories for these leisure activities:...
can be stabilized and adapted to weather extremes. At the beginning of the year, hydrogeologists from the TU Berlin installed level probes in several small rivers in the Lower Spree catchment area between the Spreewald and Berlin, which were intended to record the water level and flow speed. When Irina Engelhardt and her team travel to the measuring points to collect the data...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
had created. "That's why the number of 500 is the guideline for us through this report," said Neumeyer. With an area of over 8000 square kilometers, the state forests are the largest forest owners in Germany, and the state government has given the company an important role in the expansion of renewable energies. However, there are differences of opinion when it comes to wind turbine construction...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
been convicted of violating EU law. Conservation legislation is not the problem, it is its implementation. There are far too few employees in the authorities to determine why this forest and meadow area should be protected, what measures are necessary and exactly how it can be managed... * Brazil | Indigenous | Agricultural lobby Historic success for indigenous people:...
Capacity has been exceeded - two more than in 2015, as a new balance sheet reveals. The planetary limits have therefore been exceeded in terms of global warming, the biosphere, deforestation, nitrogen cycles, pollutants and fresh water. The pressure on these earth systems and cycles is also growing more and more. There is a risk of serious and sometimes irreversible...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
therefore, to act and ensure a cross-border EIA for these old reactors in which everyone can participate.”... * Fires in Canada, Tenerife and Hawaii Forest fires: Fires on a new scale Severe fires in Tenerife, in Canada and Hawaii. Mass evacuations and thousands missing. Hawaiians fear loss of cultural identity due to...
animals. Therefore, according to Engelhardt, urgent measures are needed now to continue to provide sufficient water even in the event of prolonged drought... * United States | Forest fires | 1,5 degree fires in Hawaii: Dissolved in smoke In tropical Hawaii, a fire destroys an entire city. Has control over climate change long since slipped away? So far it has been a...
In southern Germany, even 37 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, there may still be radioactive cesium contamination. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) announced that increased values were measured primarily in southern Bavaria and the Bavarian Forest. Read here which fungi are affected. Salzgitter, Berlin. Wild edible mushrooms in southern Germany can still be found 37 years after...
According to those responsible, there is no danger. Recently there was a similar problem. A reportable event occurred at the waste disposal plant for nuclear systems GmbH (EWN) in Greifswald/Lubmin. Corrosion was found on three barrels used to store radioactive waste that was to be dried in a facility, the Ministry of the Environment said...
1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events
with radioactive fallout. Large amounts of radioactivity fell, especially north of the power plant, in parts of Belarus, but parts of Scandinavia, Asia Minor and the Bavarian Forest were also covered with radioactive iodine-131 or cesium-137. The catastrophe was kept secret from the population for days. Evacuation and protection measures were severely delayed. Consequences for...