With the global economic development the Arctic region has increasingly become important. Depletion of natural resources forces countries to exploit remote and hard-to-reach mineral deposits. International experts assess that Arctic accounts for about 13% of undiscovered oil, 30% of undiscovered natural gas, and 30% of freshwater in the world. Consequently,Continue Reading
Finland’s Interior Minister and chair of the Green Party Maria Ohisalo has demanded that the government’s coalition partners make the necessary decisions on climate policy during budget negotiations scheduled for the autumn. This includes policies aimed at reducing the amount of emissions from agriculture, Ohisalo added, as Finland seeks toContinue Reading
Petteri Taalas, the Finn who leads the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), said on Monday that the world is on course to miss crucial climate change targets after the publication of the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global warming is a rather significant problem inContinue Reading
To combat rising sea levels, there is a highly ambitious plan to build massive sea dams across the North Sea and English Channel. When it comes to engineering, you rarely see projects as bold as this one. Concerned that rising sea levels will eventually swamp northern Europe’s major cities, twoContinue Reading