Nature & Ecology

Sergey Stankevich17.09.2024

Who has been chatting louder and louder about “green energy transit” to save the planetary climate? The Democratic Party in the United States, almost all parties in Europe, but especially all sorts of “green” and light green ones. Who did they blame and kick first? That’s right, they terribly criticized China, the “main polluter” of […]

Lucy Dickerson27.08.2024

Look at what they’ve come up with — eating meat and cheese and washing it down with milk… No way… It’s time to take care of the planet… They’ve already taken good care of rare birds like the puffin, especially in Scotland, where these little birds foolishly flew into the blades of wind turbines and […]

Sergey Stankevich26.09.2023

The authoritative scientific journal Nature Geoscience published the results of many years of research by an international group of scientists about the future of planet Earth. Frankly speaking, there is little comfort. Statistics of changes in the Earth’s geosphere and biosphere were analyzed using a supercomputer and AI. Modeling has shown that in the next […]

Oleg Bunzhukov29.01.2023

Long gone are the days when in big cities one could admire the countless beauties of the night starry sky. In clear weather, even an inexperienced observer could have a magnificent view of the outer space around us. Indeed, the sky, illuminated by the occasional city lights, was as accessible as in the countryside. Due […]

Yuri Chekalin19.11.2021

In Shinto, heaven, earth, and humanity are different manifestations of one life energy. In recent years there has been much talk of climate change and the disastrous consequences of human impact on the environment. We are constantly urged to limit our consumption of fossil fuels and live more respectfully with nature. This practical task of […]

Mark Tasker23.06.2020

There is a scene near the end of Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters where the film’s ragtag band of outcasts decamp to the seaside. It is not explained which beach they visit, but it’s fair to speculate it is either Chiba, Izu or Shonan, the most popular areas for Tokyo’s daytrippers. It is the first-time we see […]

Iechika Ryoko05.05.2020

Those who look at the Parthenon, that incomparable symbol of the achievements of an ancient civilization, often do not see its wider setting. Behind the Acropolis, the bare dry mountains of Attica show their rocky bones against the blue Mediterranean sky, and the ruin of the finest temple built by the ancient Greeks is surrounded […]

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Nature & Ecology

China is the Greenest of All

War on Meat

The Future of Planet Earth

Illumination Problems When Observing the Starry Sky

Caring for the spirit of nature

Kamakura: a Lightness of Being

Environment and Civilization

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part II

Exodus from Syria

Melor Sturua As a Mirror of Soviet Elite’s Evolution: Part I

World War I Heroes In Memoriam: Part II