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World Animal Day: Groups Demand New Animal Protection Law
October 4th is World Animal Day. The German Animal Welfare Association and its affiliated over 700 member clubs underline their demand for a completely new animal protection law. It is more than a decade ago when, on August 1, 2002, the Animal Protection was established as a national objective in the Basic Law....
Baltic Sea Threatens Increase of Up to 80 Centimeters
Stralsund – The cities and towns on the German Baltic coast must adjust by the end of the century sea level researchers say, due to a rise by 70 to 80 centimeters. However, there was no reason to panic, according Marcus Reckermann from Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, last Tuesday at a conference in Stralsund. “In this period,...
IUCN Calls for Protection of Caribbean Reefs
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) urged to take “urgent measures” to protect coral reefs in the Caribbean, which is threatened by pollution and aggressive fishing practices in the area. In a report presented at the V World Conservation Congress that began yesterday in the South Korean island of Jeju, IUCN warned...
Green Energy “Bursts” East German Power Grid
Hall – The East German power grid is overloaded with increasing frequency. “We’re more on edge. The rapid expansion of wind and solar systems brings the network to the edge of the load, “says Gunter Scheibner, head of system management of the TSO 50 Hertz, to the”Central German” (Wednesday edition). This is because of...
WWF Calls on Forest Policy
WWF Spain has requested by letter to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, a forest policy “sustainable and coordinated” in the wake of wildfires that have hit the country this summer. Thus, according to WWF, the letter asks the minister to “lead, urgently and decisively, a strategy that underpins forest...
Altmaier Should Provide Concept for Modern Coal-and Gas-Fired Plants
Berlin – Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg plan so hard for energy transition by Environment Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) to task. The Bavarian Economics Minister Martin Zeil (FDP) and Baden-Württemberg Environment Minister Franz Saucer (Green) to throw the federal government in the newspaper “Die Welt” (Wednesday edition) inaction on the creation of spare capacity before the disconnected...
Environment Will Help Monitor Compliance with Ban on Incandescent Light Bulbs
Dusseldorf – The German Environmental Aid will monitor the current from September to trade ban on traditional light bulbs with filament strictly. “After the deadline there will be visits,” said national manager Jürgen Resch of “Business Week”. Merchants who ran under the ban, he threatened legal action and targeted campaigns. Help the environment by getting tips from...
Dispute Over Digital Copyright Intensifies
Berlin – The fight for the protection of copyright in the Internet intensified the tone between the creative industries and Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger. It specifically concerns the introduction of the warnings for copyright infringers, which calls for the culture industry and rejects the minister. The controversial issue is a required warning for cooperation with the providers...
Environmentalists in Argentina on Alert Following Belgian Central Fissures
Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Foundation of Argentina warned today that the Argentina Atucha nuclear plant has one of the 19 reactors in operation with Dutch vessels provided by the RDM, one of which presented cracks in a Belgian central. Both organizations reported in disseminated environmentalists who claim that the Nuclear Energy Agency of...
Altmaier Wants to Fight for Affordable Electricity
BERLIN, Germany – Federal Environment Minister, Peter Altmaier (CDU), assumes that electricity prices will rise during the phasing out of nuclear power. “Everyone knew when to phase out nuclear energy, the energy transition can not be had for free,” the CDU politician said on Wednesday in the ZDF “Morning Magazine”. Task of the federal...
Who is the Human Ancestor?
A paper recently published describes three fossils found in northern Kenya. It was a portion of the facial skeleton and two jaws with teeth, with an age range of 1.78 and 1.95 million years. Having examined them, anthropologists noted their resemblance to a skull discovered in 1972 (photo), also in Africa, and was assigned...
Indictment Against 19 Palm Oil entrepreneurs
Colombia’s attorney general, Eduardo Montealegre, announced the preparation of indictment against 19 palm oil entrepreneurs for their alleged responsibility in the displacement of peasants in the village of Curvaradó. Montealegre said after a meeting with Agriculture Minister, Juan Camilo Restrepo, that land claimants and leaders in the Palace of Justice in Bogota that employers...
