EcoNews.am informs that according to Marie Chakryan, president of the “Center for Public Awareness and Monitoring” alarmed that a green area of Dalma Park occupied with 20 year old enormous trees had been destroyed the day before. In an interview with EcoNews.am environmental information website, Yerevan Municipality\’s Information and Public Relations Department said it was […]
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BBC News reports that according to research, plastic is building up in the areas of the ocean where fish feed and grow. A study found bits of plastic outnumber baby fish by seven to one in nursery waters off Hawaii. The researchers set out to investigate the roles of \”slicks\” as nursery habitats for
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Armdiaspora reports that the highest tide in 50 years affected the Armenian St. Lazarus Island in the Venetian Lagoon. The waters peaked at 1.87m, according to the tide monitoring center. Only once since records began in 1923 has the tide been higher, reaching 1.94m in 1966. Father Hamazasp Kechichian from the Mkhitarist School says the
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Fox59 informs that parts of the US are facing record cold temperatures, and some people wonder what happened to global warming. To understand why, you have to first know the difference between weather and climate. Weather is what happens today, climate is what happens over the long run. For years, climate skeptics have pointed to
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In a year, Armenia produces 17,2 thousand tons of used tires, which are mainly burnt in warehouses or buried in tailing dumps or end up in landfills illegally. “Ameska” has been founded since 2014. It deals with tire recycling which results in technical carbon, diesel fuel and scrap metal. The company also processes used oils,
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Recycling.am has been created in the framework of “Green Initiatives” public awareness campaign as part of the UNDP-GEF and RA Ministry of Nature Protection project called “Creating Global Environmental Benefits Through Raising Stakeholder Environmental Education and Awareness”. For the first time in Armenia Recycling.am has tried to map the separated waste bins, recycling organizations and
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Info.com reports that the owner of Lichk Copper Mine, Tatstone Company, is directly connected with Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine. The plant extracted at various sites and then left the area. It is unknown how much ore was extracted from Lichk. As a result of the anarchy of the former administration, the Lichk mine was
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AUA Acopian Center for the Environment has designed an e-learning course on environmental education and an online platform for delivering the course within the UNDP-GEF “Development of E-learning course on Environmental Education” project. The course includes 11 modules which comprise up to 24 hours of training and including the following topics: -Global environmental challenges and
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Euronews informs that nearly 2,700 insect species have declined by over a third in ten years in Germany. An international research team led by scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) collected more than one million insects between 2008 and 2017 at 300 sites across the German states of Brandenburg, Thuringia and Baden-Wurttemberg. Scientists
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Butterflies prefer conditions to be neither too hot nor too cold, but “just right.” Because of climate change, the temperature at any given time of summer is getting warmer, thus leaving butterflies with the challenge of how to remain in their optimal temperature window. The Next Web informs that one of the main ways in
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