A 60m-year-lineage comes to an end
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 ye...
The Serious Results of Teghut Copper Mine
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 th...
A New Study on Air Pollution
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 ...
Strict Restrictions on Chemicals in Minnesota
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 usi...
15 Ha Area Burned Down in “Khosrov Forest” State Reserve
The Department of Information and Public Affairs of the RA Ministry of Nature Protection informs that fire broke out in “Khosrov Forest” state reserve’s “Gyolsar” area on August 30, at 3:00. It was possible to isolate the fire at around 9:00. Ho...
A Letter to the Armenian Government on the Incompatibility of Jermuk development program and Amulsar project
“EcoLur” Informational NGO has addressed a letter to Armenian government, which says that the government has taken two contradictory decisions on the development of Jermuk community. The first one is on declaring Jermuk Town as a center of tourism, an...
Save Reef from Climate Change
Serious steps should be taken to save reef from climate change. The Queensland Government should do something to shift to a low carbon future and to reduce pollution. It is known that unless we can keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the Reef can’t...
Australia Rated “Very Poor” for Action on Climate Change Issues
The guardian reports that Under China’s leadership, this weekend’s G20 deeply analyses climate-related issues. Before the G20 summit in China, a comprehensive assessment was conducted revealing Australia is the worst country among other G20 countries ...
Divesting from Fossil Fuels and Investing in Low Carbon Solutions
The Green Business Network calls to take an action to address the climate crisis. Creating clean energy economy, especially now with 2015 shattering global records for the hottest temperature and the greatest increase in carbon dioxide, is an impor...
Legislative Reform Package in the Sphere of Mining
Legislative Reform Package in the Sphere of Mining Ecolur informs us the Armenian Government is submitting a package of legislative reforms in the mining field, which suggests that all soil management companies have waste management plan. In case of not i...
