Eco-world
Claude, the eucalyptus thief
10.09.2023
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A koala named Claude made headlines around the world after he was caught chewing saplings at an Australian eucalyptus nursery. The owner of the nursery told reporters that several months ago his employees began to observe the disappearance of plants. They initially suspected that escaped goats or local opossums might have been responsible for the theft.
Photo fact: NASA has published a new satellite image of the Amu Derya
10.09.2023
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NASA published a satellite image of the Amu Derya in the gallery on its website on September 9. The description of the image states that "on September 4, 2023, the medium-resolution spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the NASA Aqua satellite received a full-color image of the green stripe surrounding the Amu Derya River in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan."
The genetic "tree" of tigers of continental Asia was compiled by a team of scientists
10.09.2023
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For the first time, the evolutionary history of ancient tigers has been fully studied - an international team of scientists has traced the genetic history of the origin of these large predators in continental Asia. They examined the DNA code of more than 60 modern and fossil specimens and officially confirmed the existence of nine modern subspecies. The results of their work are published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Tajikistan will transfer the chairmanship in the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea to Kazakhstan
31.08.2023
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Tajikistan will transfer the chairmanship in the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) to Kazakhstan. The Fund Council will be held in Dushanbe as part of a consultative meeting of the leaders of the heads of state of Central Asia, scheduled for September 14. This was announced at a briefing by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan Sodik Imomi.
A baby giraffe without spots was born in an American zoo
23.08.2023
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A new superstar has appeared in one of the zoos in Tennessee, USA. It doesn't have a name yet, but it has already made a splash among its herd – a giraffe without spots.
Unusual mushrooms called "bloody teeth" were found in the Leningrad region
20.08.2023
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Unusual mushrooms that are rarely found in nature have been discovered in the Nizhne-Svirsky State Reserve of the Leningrad Region of Russia. One of them is a "bloody tooth", or Hydnellum peckii, which secretes a red liquid similar to blood.
Trees in Bishkek will receive a "medical card" and will be entered in the digital register
17.08.2023
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Each tree in Bishkek will have a kind of "medical card" - the mayor's office of the Kyrgyz capital and the public foundation "Archa" for the first time launched a project of electronic inventory of green spaces of the city. The register will include data on the number, geolocation, types, irrigation and condition of certain trees, reports vesti.kg.
In the US, CO2 from the air will be captured, sent to storage for concrete production
16.08.2023
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The US Department of Energy will allocate $ 1.2 billion to expand direct air capture (DAC) projects to clean it from carbon dioxide, writes Reuters.
UN completes pumping of 1.1 million barrels of oil from damaged tanker in Red Sea
13.08.2023
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The United Nations successfully completed the transfer of oil from the FSO Safer supertanker off the Red Sea coast in Yemen, averting the immediate threat of a major spill.
Today people have exhausted the annual resources of the Earth
02.08.2023
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In 2023, people have exhausted the conditional supply of renewable natural resources by Wednesday, August 2, the American environmental organization Global Ecological Footprint Network, GFN, reported. DW writes about this.
