Новости по теме environment

81 elephants die of poisoning in Zimbabwe: authorities More than 80 elephants and other animals have died of cyanide poisoning by poachers in Zimbabwe's largest game park.

26 September 2013

Sands of time running out for rare Canadian desert As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada's vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse -- slowly sprouting with vegetation.

25 September 2013

Warming 'pause' gives thought for scientists, sceptics A slowdown in warming that has provided fuel for climate sceptics is one of the thorniest issues in a report to be issued by UN experts.

24 September 2013

Shark overfishing endangers reefs: Australian study Scientists studying remote reefs off Australia said Thursday sharks played a fundamental role in coral health, with overfishing of the marine predators increasing reef vulnerability to global warming and disasters.

19 September 2013

New Kazakh-Korean Balkhash TPP to burn Ekibastuz coal Kazakhstan is getting year another coal fueled power plant, a South Korean-owned one this time.

18 September 2013

Greenpeace activists scale oil rig in Russian Arctic Two activists from Greenpeace were on Wednesday scaling an oil platform owned by state energy giant Gazprom in the Russian Arctic in a bid to stop it drilling for oil in a hugely sensitive area.

18 September 2013

Africa's 'right-on' whale capital Perched away from the world on the rocky southern tip of Africa, the town of Hermanus rose to global whale-watching renown almost by chance.

16 September 2013

New study points finger at climate in mammoth's demise A wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that the towering tusker was wiped out by climate change.

12 September 2013

Chevron claims new proof of fraud in Ecuador pollution ruling US oil giant Chevron, hit in Ecuador with a record $19 billion fine for pollution, asked Monday for the court to consider what it claimed was "new evidence" the judge in the case was corrupt.

11 September 2013

3,000 saiga antelopes die in Akmola and Karaganda oblasts Mortality of 3 thousand saiga antelopes has been registered in Akmola and Karaganda oblasts in central Kazakhstan.

11 September 2013

Hunting season kicks off in Kazakhstan The autumn season of waterfowl, hoofed mammals and predators hunting starts in Kazakhstan on September 7.

06 September 2013

NCOC fined $10 thousand for dead seagulls North Caspian Operating Company, the operator of Kashagan oilfield, located in Kazakhstan's sector of the Caspian Sea shelf, was fined $10 thousand for harming the environment.

04 September 2013

Tiny rainforest frogs hear with their mouths Some of the tiniest frogs on Earth have no middle ears or eardrums but can hear by using their mouths.

03 September 2013

Pavlodar to spend 800 million tenge on green region Pavlodar authorities are planning to make one of the densely populated regions of the city green and energy-efficient in the nearest two years.

03 September 2013

Massive canyon lies beneath Greenland ice sheet A huge canyon twice the size of the longest river in Britain and as deep as the Grand Canyon lies beneath the ice sheet in Greenland.

01 September 2013

Fish leaders are born, not made: study Leadership is an innate quality, said a fish study Wednesday that predicted trouble in animal social groups, also human ones, when natural roles are reversed.

29 August 2013

Japan scientists launch freeze-dry animal sperm bank Japanese scientists have launched a sperm bank for endangered animals that uses freeze-drying technology they hope could one day help humans recreate animal populations on other planets.

29 August 2013

Measles-like virus blamed for Atlantic dolphin deaths A virus that is similar to measles in humans is suspected of killing hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins since July.

28 August 2013

Jumpy caterpillar shies the Sun: study The larva of a Vietnamese moth has devised a unique form of transport -- constructing a leaf cone and thrashing about inside to make it jump.

21 August 2013

Rising deforestation sparks concern in Brazil Amazon Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is on the rise sharply, sparking alarm over the future of the world's biggest rainforest.

21 August 2013

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