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Last Friday night, the US House of Representatives approved a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure project that forms the center of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. However, the US$1.7 trillion package aimed at social protection and environmental actions has not yet been voted on. House Democratic leaders had hoped for a vote on the economic package […]

“Listen now to the sound that forever separates the old from the new.” That’s how the North American radio NBC introduced the signal of the first satellite into space, on October 4, 1957, in the United States. But the novelty wasn’t a triumph of American science: the sound came from the Soviet Union’s Sputnik, a […]

Both in the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, where young activists from around the world held a protest, and inside the official area of ​​COP26, the power of young people marked Friday (5). But beyond the youth, the preservation of the oceans – and the blue economy – were highlights. During the meeting of the Parties […]

In the area of ​​the COP26 negotiations on the reduction of polluting gas emissions by the major global powers, the contrast between these countries and the nations that are at the bottom of the list of smallest emitters in the world is great. Most of the cleanest nations in the world are islands located in […]

Activist Vanessa Nakate was 21 years old when deadly floods flooded vast areas of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after the disaster, she and her younger brothers and cousins ​​decorated posters and started protests in his hometown of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. With storms intensifying, […]

North Korea can get all the uranium it needs to create nuclear weapons at its plant in Pyongsan, as well as producing much more nuclear fuel than it currently does, concluded a new academic study that analyzed satellite imagery of tailings piles. Despite a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear weapons testing since 2017, North Korea has […]

In the first week of meetings at COP26, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, Brazil took over new appointments to combat climate change: the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions rose from 43% to 50% in 2030. The country also adhered to a new goal: to reduce emissions by 30%. methane emissions, which, in […]

Russian royal jewelry smuggled out of the country during the 1917 revolution, along with rare-colored diamonds, will be up for auction next week in Geneva, Switzerland, in search of collectors willing to pay high prices for the rarities. A pink-orange diamond weighing 25.62 carats, estimated at 3.6 million to 5.38 million Swiss francs (more than […]

The gap between the impacts of the climate crisis and global adaptation efforts is widening, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The annual report on the “adaptation gap”, released on Thursday (4) on the sidelines of the COP26 summit on climate change in Glasgow, found that the estimated costs […]

Workers and guests at a hotel in Mexico, considered popular with American tourists, experienced moments of chaos this Thursday (4), amid reports of gunfire in the vicinity. According to local authorities, a clash between drug traffickers culminated in two deaths on a beach near the hotel in the Cancun region. “There was a confrontation between […]