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UNESCO demanded from Russia to create a system of ecological monitoring of Lake Baikal, which is a World Heritage site.

NASA specialists analyzed the images of Mercury made by the Messenger probe and came to the conclusion that there is a lot of ice on this planet. 

Specialists of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the RAS came to the conclusion that in the next 20 million years Lake Baikal will turn into an ocean.

The American photographer managed to make a unique photo that shows how plastic debris pollutes the ocean. In the photo a small sea horse clings its tail behind a cotton swab.

Specialists of the University of Brown (USA) compiled a detailed map of the water reserves in the lunar soil based on data obtained from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper spectrometer. 

A photo of coconut crab, which turned the head of the discarded doll into its home, became a symbol of environmental pollution with plastic debris.

At the end of the summer, St. Petersburg was one of the cleanest cities in our country. 

Amazing plant – Orchid Acampe Rigida, common in South-Western China, uses not the insects or the wind but the rain for pollination. 

At the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, the Rosgeology delegation presented a project of a geothermal station on the Kunashir Island with an installed capacity of 50 MW.

Mobile laboratory on the ship PS-172 basis will study the small rivers of the Nizhny Novgorod region. 

From September to December, tourists have a unique opportunity to swim at the edge of the famous Victoria Falls, and do not fall at the same time to the abyss from a height of 108 meters.

As a result of oil leakage in Udmurtia, Russia, seven wild ducks were killed. 

On September 1 in the Brussels region of Belgium a ban on the use of plastic bags began to operate.

The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation sent a bill to the government, according to which continuous sanitary felling of burned forests within the boundaries of the central ecological zone of Lake Baikal will be allowed. 

Beach Birling Gap on the east coast of Sussex (Great Britain) was subjected to a sudden chemical attack

The Ministry of Economics of the Russian Federation sent a report to the government proposing to curtail the federal target program for the Lake Baikal protection. As a reason, errors in the management, admitted by the Ministry of Nature, are indicated.

Specialists of the Earth Cryosphere Institute (Tyumen) went on an expedition to the Yamal Peninsula to observe unusual lakes.

The University of California at San Diego (USA) specialists have investigated a sample of the lunar rock and came to the conclusion that participants in future flights to the Moon are unlikely to find much water there.