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Review article Faster! Higher! Stronger! … And greener Browse news for the week. Environmentalists 'adjust' the Olympic facilities in Sochi. Rosprirodnadzor: checks and penalties, comments, and personnel changes. The cataclysms of nature: earthquakes, floods, tornadoes. Again plastic: plastic rubbish – a global problem of mankind. Abnormal heat: earlier than usual in Russia, wake up hedgehogs and bears. In Russia, celebrated the Day of Russian science.

Review from 04/02/2008 to 10/02/2008. A short overview of the major environmental news for the week. The General Assembly will discuss the UN role in the fight against climate change, on 11-12 February at the UN headquarters in New York held a thematic debate of the General Assembly 'Tackling climate change: actions by the United Nations and the international community. " It is the first step in promoting the objectives set at the UN Conference on Climate Change … —- Ten places on earth incompatible with life on this planet a lot of interesting and attractive places that many people want to visit. However, there is also the place from which it is better to stay away.

They should be avoided, not because there is nothing interesting, but stay because there could be life threatening. American ekologicheskym fund Blacksmith Institute has compiled a list of ten of these places … —- Many of the tools to care for infants contain potentially dangerous chemicals, Scientists have discovered body lotion, baby shampoo and powder can be hazardous to children's health because they contain harmful chemicals group called phthalates, chemists warn doctors and the University of Washington Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh … —- The list of the most environmentally fragile regions scientists have compiled a list of regions where global warming is likely in the near future may lead to irreversible consequences, according to Potsdam Institute for human influence on climate, with reference to an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences … —- Problems solved global warming, but quite expensive Climate Change on which is so much talk in recent times, there is not only due to natural internal processes. A great influence also have external effects such as changes in Earth's orbit, solar activity and volcanic eruptions. However, the most serious consequences is the so-called greenhouse effect, which is a consequence of entering into the atmosphere, which amount to 22 billion tons per year … The full texts of these and other News you can get on ECOportal.ru and mailing in this release: 285 issue a weekly mailing of environmental ECOportal.ru ECOportal.ru tags: ECOportal.ru, environment, news, newsletter