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Nature Communications: Antarctica is covered with ice due to the sinking of the ocean floor global cooling 34 million years ago, which led to the emergence of a thick ice sheet in Antarctica. According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the main role in this process was played not only by a decrease in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, but also by tectonic changes that affected the circulation of seawater in the Southern Ocean. Traditionally, it is believed that the change from hot greenhouse conditions to a cold climate in the early Cenozoic (from 52 to 34 million years ago) was due to a critical decrease in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Known as the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), these fundamental changes, which determined the state of the Earth's current climate, led to a decrease in the average surface temperature of the entire planet,

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine: the country will stop buying electricity from Russia and Belarus by 2023 and Belarus by September 2023. The Ukrainian government announced the appropriate date on November 24 at a meeting, as part of the approval of a plan to combat the abuse of oligarchs. Interfax reports this. According to the plan, the Cabinet of Ministers will form a list of key objects of the country's fuel and energy complex. Further, these facilities will be included in the energy security strategy and will begin constant monitoring of threats to the energy sector. The document provides for tests on the autonomous operation of the energy system of Ukraine already in 2022. And a year later, Ukraine should stop buying electricity from Russia and Belarus. The Ukrainian government also paid attention to supplying the country with natural gas. By September 2023, the ministers plan to increase the number

OneTwoTrip: an air ticket from Moscow to St. Petersburg in December will cost from 1000 rubles The flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg turned out to be the cheapest destination for a trip to Russia in December. This is evidenced by a study of the travel planning service OneTwoTrip, Gazeta.Ru reports. An air ticket from the capital to St. Petersburg will cost an average of 1,000 rubles. In second place are Ufa and Kaliningrad, where you can go for 1.2 thousand rubles. Travel to Krasnodar and Sochi will cost 100 rubles more. You can get to Mineralnye Vody by paying from 1.3 thousand rubles, and to Vladikavkaz – from 1.4 thousand rubles. From St. Petersburg, the cheapest air tickets can be found to Moscow (from one thousand rubles) and Kaliningrad (from 1.6 thousand rubles). A flight to Arkhangelsk, Sochi, Makhachkala and Kazan will cost a little more: tourists will have

A resident of the Chelyabinsk region called for a monument to the elk killed by Deputy Rashkin A resident of the Chelyabinsk region Vitaly Orekhov whom Valery Rashkin, a State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, killed during the hunt. The Russian citizen's appeal is addressed to the Governor of the Saratov Region Valery Radaev, URA.RU reports. The author of the initiative posted a petition on the change.org portal. He explained that the monument will symbolize a protest against illegal hunting and support for the country's natural wealth. “The monument should be installed in the place where he gave his life for the sake of other people's greed and greed. Let the life and death of an unnamed moose not be in vain, “Orekhov noted. The activist clarified that the damage from the death of an animal can be estimated from 240 to 400 thousand rubles.

The head of the National Bank of Ukraine: the second tranche was received from the IMF in the amount of $ 699 million ) for hundreds of millions of dollars, the head of the National Bank of the country Kirill Shevchenko said on Facebook. “Today Ukraine received the second tranche from the International Monetary Fund under the stand-by program in the amount of SDR 500 million (special drawing rights, SDR, special means of payment of the IMF – approx. “Lenta.ru” ) “, – Shevchenko wrote, indicating that it is about the equivalent of 699 million US dollars. The funds will go to the government's accounts with the National Bank of Ukraine and will increase international reserves, he said. President of the country Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier about the prospect of receiving funds. He expressed gratitude to the IMF Board of Directors and indicated that the funds will be used to