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“Russia’s thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict – by accident, intention, or miscalculation – is a terrible risk. New Construction at Russia's Novaya Zemlya nuclear test site, June 22, 2023. Lop Nur nuclear test site. “The Chinese test site is different than the Russian test site,” Lewis said. Both countries keep their strategic nuclear arsenals on “hair-trigger” alert, meaning that nuclear weapons can be launched on short notice.

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☆ Tour leader Vingegaard welcomes scepticism about performances
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Julien Pretot | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

SAINT GERVAIS, France, July 16 (Reuters) - Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar have made such a huge impression in the Tour de France that, in a sport that was marred by doping scandals, doubts about their performances have arisen but Denmark's defending champion welcomes the scepticism. On Sunday, Pogacar and Vingegaard clocked 18:27 on the final climb, beating four-time Tour winner Chris Froome's record by 42 seconds. "So yes, I fully understand the questions we're getting about it (our performances)," said Vingegaard. In 2006, Floyd Landis became the first Tour winner to fail a drugs test during the race after testing positive for the male sex hormone testosterone. The Kazakh’s Astana team left the Tour and sacked Vinokourov, who denied any wrongdoing, and Tour leader Michael Rasmussen was then fired by his Rabobank team during the race for lying about his whereabouts in training.

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☆ When El Niño exacerbates global warming: Record heat, record flooding, record wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Brown | Afp | Getty ImagesIf you feel like record-level extreme weather events are happening with alarming frequency, you're not alone. Global warming is making extreme weather events more severe, scientists said. But what is clear is that climate change makes it more likely that an extreme weather event will happen. "Higher temperatures from climate change are indisputable, and with each degree increase we're multiplying our changes of getting an extreme heat wave. Decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels will help moderate the extreme weather trends.

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☆ An Oil Refiner Leans on Manure to Provide a Greener Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Stanley Reed | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Every day dozens of tanker trucks, many laden with pig manure and other kinds of agricultural waste, rumble through the gateway of an imposing steel-and-concrete plant in northeast Netherlands. This pungent cargo will be mixed together into a slurry and pumped into massive tanks, where hungry bacteria will within weeks turn it into methane gas that will ultimately be sold to the energy grid to heat homes and generate electricity. The gas is a biofuel — similar to the natural gas pumped out of offshore wells in the North Sea but, because of its biological origins, considered carbon neutral. The recipe for success, said Fritz Ullrich, the plant manager, is keeping the microbes nourished with a steady stream of waste. “We have to coddle them,” he said on a recent morning.

☆ MECC anunță noi oportunități pentru elevi și profesori de a studia limba germană în școli și licee
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Ministrul Educației, Culturii și Cercetării, Igor Șarov a avut astăzi, 30 octombrie o întrevedere cu șef-adjunctul Ambasadei Republicii Federale Germania în Republica Moldova, Ullrich Kinne și cu conducerea Goethe – Zentrum Chișinău. La rândul său, șef-adjunctul Ambasadei Republicii Federale Germania la Chișinău, a declarat că țara sa este deschisă și în continuare să ajute Republica Moldova la dezvoltarea sistemului educațional. Pentru a beneficia de aceste oportunități, instituțiile de învățământ sunt invitate să participe la concursul lansat de Goethe-Zentrum. „Prin utilizarea mijloacelor de predare modernă dorim să încurajăm și motivăm elevii, profesorii, părinții, dar și conducerea instituțiilor de învățământ pentru studierea limbii germane”, a declarat Corina Gîrla. În acest sens a fost cerut suportul Ministerului Educației, Culturii și Cercetării în vederea promovării proiectului.

Persons: Igor Șarov, Goethe, Corina Gîrla, Zentrum, Corina Organizations: Educației, Culturii, Cercetării, German, Ministrul Educației, Culturii și Cercetării Locations: Republicii Federale Germania, Republica Moldova, Chișinău, Germania, Germaniei

☆ MECC anunță noi oportunități pentru elevi și profesori de a studia limba germană în școli și licee
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

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