In full (EN): https://ps.ueb.cas.cz/pdfs/phs/2025/04/08.pdf%5D The International Conference on “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research” was inaugurated in 2004 in Trois Rivières, Canada, as “Photosynthesis and Post-Genomics Era”. It was conceived by its founders, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev (Russia), Vyacheslav (Slava) Klimov (Russia), Robert Carpentier (Canada), and Prasanna Mohanty (India) to be an alternating conference to the bigger…
Category: Water
Successful use of beet pulp for surface oil spills
In full (RU) Abstract:The sixth and twelfth Sustainable Development Goals are ensuring the rational use of water resources and promoting responsible consumption, production, respectively. Due to the active development of industry, many water resources are subject to anthropogenic pollution, especially as a result of oil spill. The problem of the negative impact of oil and…
What is in defrosted Russian Arctic ice?
Carbon deposits in thawing permafrost include widely reported methane gases released as bubbles and present in craters across Siberia. Scientists wanted to find out more about the greenhouse emissions and what was in the defrosted ground ice including dissolved organic matter (DOM) and particulate organic matter (POM). They studied four locations across the Russian arctic…
Inspecting climate, chlorine and carcinogens in southern Baikal’s water
248,000 water samples between 2011 and 2022 were recently investigated by researchers at the East-Siberian Institute of Medical and Ecological Research, in Angarsk. Lake Baikal is the world’s largest freshwater lake. It is a UNESCO protected site, also protected in Russian national legislation. Chemical engineering and agro-industrial sites in the region also access the water,…
Highway to bottom sediment – heavy metals in the Russian Far East waters
Heavy metal pollution in Peter the Great Bay and Lake Khanka affects both biological organisms and accumulating in bottom sediments (BS) of both freshwater and seawater. Russian chemists ecided to find out more about the impact on the surrounding ecology by analysing each heavy metal phase, how it appears, what it does and where it…
Ice jams and models along the Volga river
Ice is one of the leading causes of damage to infrastructure from water factors including flooding, ice blockages and hanging ice: In 2020, The Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) recorded 1,000 dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena in Russia (97 phenomena more than in 2019), of which 372 phenomena caused significant damage to critical…
Surfing the Russian coast – an atlas of wind and wave energy
Russia’s coastline includes seas and oceans stretching along 40,000 km. Wave energy varies between 29kW/M – 35 kW/M (Myslenkov et al., 2023) The researchers investigated on and offline mapping and methodologies forecasting wind and wave movements. They developed an open-access atlas so that anyone can get updated wind and wave information. This is now available…
Understanding climate politics in Central Asia – interview with Alina Bychkova
Alina Bychkova has nearly completed her PhD thesis ‘Understanding climate change narratives in Central Asia: science, politics and media discussions’ at Nottingham Trent University. She co-published ‘Kazakhstan’s climate change policy: reflecting national strength, green economy aspirations and international agenda’, Post-Communist Economies,34:7,894-915,DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2021.1943916 What is your PHD and how is it going? My PhD is in…
Digging deeper and deeper into the Lake Chany basin
Lake Chany in Western Siberia has historically been a shallow lake, approximately 2 metres deep and a 2.2 thousand km2 area. It is saline which is similar to other lakes in the region due to intensive evaporation after rain and run off. This theoretically increases the affect of climate change in water levels and surrounding…
Less fizz, more plants – acids and eutrophication in Arctic lakes
Russian researchers identified acidification of lakes during 1990s in Murmansk, Karelia, Archangelsk and Vologda regions and found up to 5% of lakes have acidification due to human causes in humid areas of European Russia and West Siberia. Nornickel was identified as the main contributor of sulphur dioxide SO2 in Kola and Norilsk areas. However since…
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