Researchers from the University of Lodz help European companies reduce CO2 emissions
Companies that want to increase their energy efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions can participate in the "Trainergy" project. It is implemented by an international consortium whose leader is the Faculty of Management of the University of Lodz.
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Dr. Wachniew: Polish waters will remain polluted for several decades
Even if we start caring for the environment now and farmers start using less fertilizers, from which biogenic substances get into the soil and then into the waters, the Polish rivers and the Baltic Sea will still be polluted for several more decades - says environmental physicist Dr. Przemysław Wachniew from AGH-UST.
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Experts: The EU countries should decide themselves whether they want GMOs
EU Member States should be able to express their willingness to grow GM crops and not, as the current regulations require, report that they do not want to produce GM plants authorized by the EU. An expert group proposes a change of regulations in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
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Global "suffocation" of seas and oceans: oxygen deserts are expanding
Oxygen depletes in the oceans and seas all over the world around the world. Regions with dangerously low oxygen level have increased in the last 50 years by an area as large as the European Union - scientists alarm. Publication about this appeared in Science.
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Polar biologist: Iceberg calving is an opportunity for interesting research
Giant iceberg with a huge area of 6 thousand km2 calving from Antarctic ice shelf reveals areas of the Antarctic Ocean that have been covered with several hundred meters of ice.
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Toruń/ Research of a Nicolaus Copernicus University scientist may change the chronology of the Bronze Age
The eruption of Thera volcano, which destroyed the Minoan culture and changed the climate, could happen earlier than it was thought - scientist from Toruń believes. His research may change the chronology of the Bronze Age of the cradle of our civilization - the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.
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Expert: Diversification of crops is the key to food security
Just four plants - wheat, rice, maize and soybeans - account for 60 percent food produced worldwide. In the face of catastrophic climate change, a larger diversification of cultivated plants is needed, says Prof Sayed Azam-Ali from the University of Nottingham, UK.
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Baltic clams and marine worms contribute to global warming
The seas and oceans, where clams and marine worms live, emit eight times as much methane into the atmosphere as the oceans free of these creatures, according to the recent study of the Baltic Sea and its molluscs.
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Expert: climate change affects cities
Cities are affected by global climate change, but at the same time they also modify the local climate, among other things, through the so-called urban heat islands; they also affect precipitation and humidity - told PAP Prof. Krzysztof Fortuniak from the University of Lodz.
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Time capsule with scientific valuables hidden on Spitsbergen
Fragment of a meteorite, fossils, plant seeds, human DNA, tardigrades, coins, photos of the Earth, silicon crystals - are the treasures buried by Polish scientists in a time capsule on Spitsbergen. The container is designed to appear on the surface of the Earth in about 500 thousand years.
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