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Expert: Light pollution is a global problem
Light pollution is a global problem that affects all places on Earth that have been electrified. Excess light at night is harmful not only to people and animals, but also to plants - warns biologist Prof. Krystyna Skwarło-Sońta.
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Cheap and effective - bacteria in the fight for clean water
Bacteria are amazing creatures, single-cell processing plants that can process any type of waste in biological wastewater treatment plants, if they are adapted accordingly. Among them are bacteria with unusual cell structure, capable of anaerobic oxidation of ammonia - anammox.
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Tornadoes have been recorded in Poland for 200 years
Tornadoes that carried people and animals into the air were recorded in Poland already in two previous centuries. Storms will become more frequent with the warming climate, but it is difficult to predict how their intensity will change - says Dr. Mateusz Taszarek, "storm hunter" and forecaster from Adam Mickiewicz University.
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Polish geologists explain the cause of one of the great extinctions
Big lava flows from volcanoes were the cause of one of the so-called great extinctions from the Devonian, scientists from the University of Silesia in Katowice say.
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The European Court of Justice: Large-scale logging in the Białowieża Forest violated EU law
Decisions of the Polish authorities regarding large-scale logging in the Białowieża Forest violate EU law, the European Court of Justice ruled in Luxembourg, pointing out that these decisions could not be justified by the unprecedented bark beetle outbreak.
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The Arctic is losing ice and gains new islands
The Arctic is losing ice as a result of global warming. As many as 34 new islands with an area larger than 0.5 km2 have appeared there since mid-20th century, show the results of an analysis of maps and satellite images carried out by Polish scientists.
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Silesia/ Scientists will create a 3D model of the washing tip from the UNESCO list
Researchers from the University of Silesia will use a special scanner to create a 3D model of the washing tip - one of the post-mining objects of Tarnowskie Góry, inscribed on the UNESCO`s World Heritage List last year.
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Łódź ecohydrologists win the prestigious EU award "The Best LIFE projects"
Ecohydrologists from the University of Lodz received the prestigious EU award "The Best LIFE projects" for the project of water reservoir reclamation in Arturówek, Łódź. It is among the best projects completed in 2016-2017, and competes for the "Best of the best award".
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Expert: Rising air pollution means an increase in hospitalisations and deaths
Smog kills. When air pollution rises, the number of hospitalisations and deaths increases - says Prof. Tadeusz Zielonka, a pulmonologist, internist and one of the experts at the science conference "Green for Clean Air" organized in Kraków.
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