According to theguardian.com, Minnesota’s governor has set strict restrictions on the use of agricultural pesticides that have been blamed for hurting bees. Governor Mark Dayton issued an executive order requiring farmers to prove the necessity of using chemicals, called neonicotinoids before using them. The criteria of the mentioned process are not decided yet. For three decades honey […]
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Theguardian.com reports about a new study on air pollution defining it as “the world’s single largest environment and human health threat”. The information gained through cellphone towers enables researchers to build up a picture of millions of New Yorkers’ movements during 120 days. They use a special formula which charts the density of population and levels
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Pan-Armenian Environmental Front informs us in the Facebook page that serious problems have occurred during the exploitation of Teghut Mine. This information is not confirmed yet. The resources in mine and copper and molybdenum concentrations in the ore are less than it has been confirmed several years ago. Because of the drop in international
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A trip to Crete, Cyprus or Malta 800 years ago would have been a great chance to meet pygmy elephants. Pygmy elephants of the Mediterranean islands may appear as fantastical as the woolly mammoths which still ambled across one Alaskan island just 5,600 years ago. In the interview to theguardian.com Prof Adrian Lister, a paleobiologist
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According to www.theguardian.com, a new study measures the loss of ice from one of world’s largest ice sheets. The emission of heat-trapping gases results in major changes to the Earth, one of which is melting ice. This includes ice atop mountains, ice floating in cold ocean waters, and the ice within large ice sheets or
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Hraparak.am informs us that one of the oldest resort houses in Jermuk, \’Jermuk – Moscow’ is being closed down from September 1. According to the administration, they are launching reconstruction works, however, according to the website, the area of the resort house was given to Geoteam Company, which intends to develop Amulsar gold mine near
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In her article in Lragir.am Naira Hayrumyan mentions that oil price reduction does not affect the prices in Armenia because Armenia has signed a contact with Russia according to which oil and gas depends on colonial relations rather than the market. The result is the price increase in electricity since August 1. According to
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NBC NEWS informs us about the pollution in the Guanabara Bay which is a home to this year\’s Olympic sailing events. Here an organization is using water sports as a tool to teach the next generation how to care for natural resources. A non-profit Projeto Grael\’s program gives 9-years-old kids the opportunity to learn how
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\”EcoLur\” environmental, informational NGO informs us that a press conference will be held at 11:00, 24 August at EcoLur Press Club (49/2 Hanrapetutyun St.) where Amulsar gold mine risks and the dangers for Vorotan-Arpa tunnel and Lake Sevan will be discussed: Speakers are Inga Zarafyan, President of \’EcoLur\’ Informational NGI, Nazeli Vardanyan – Director of
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