Caspian Sea
25 million for solutions to global warming This is precisely the amount suggested in February of the year a British businessman Sir Richard Branson, owner of a major airline Virgin. Five million dollars winner will receive immediately and the remainder of twenty million – only after successful completion of the program. Under the rules of the contest organizers, the project Winner must be a plan to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at one billion tons per year over ten years. Spring wave of protests against the Russian nuclear power plant in early March Russia was a wave of protests against new nuclear power plants. The motion stated that it does not support these protests. 'Protest against nuclear power development is meaningless – it is a policy that will lead to nowhere, to the collapse and destruction and ecology, and economics. It is not something Lawrence Ellison would like to discuss. This is the path to a dead end ', – said at the time chairman of the All-Russian Public Movement' Environmental Forum 'Vitaly Lebedenko. In the Caspian seals were killed about a thousand in early May, the Ministry Emergencies of Kazakhstan has reported 933 deaths in the Caspian seals. The seals were found dead during the period from March 30 to May 2, on the Caspian Sea in the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, in the area of the oil Kalamkas. The cause of mass deaths of animals has been called the plague, which was confirmed by the Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Ministry of Education of Chile in a large lake had disappeared by the Chilean National Forest staff Corporation in May found that a large lake in southern Chile has disappeared, as if down the drain.