Colegio Oficial de Geólogos

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EFGeoWeek nº 350 | 19 de marzo de 2024

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Depountis: Geological studies for regional and urban planning in Greece

This article presents the importance of geological studies for identifying the most suitable areas for regional and urban planning in Greece. Termed as geological suitability studies, these studies aim to determine the geological suitability of land to...

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Mónica Edreira joins EFG as Board Financial Advisor

Mónica Edreira is advising the EFG Board on financial matters.

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How the Tour de France helped me think about geology in a new way

This article is an adaptation of https://theconversation.com/how-the-tour-de-france-helped-me-think-about-geology-in-a-new-way-186548

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Call: Share your experience on challenges faced by geological SMEs!

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE), commonly known as the ‘Liberals Group’ in the European Parliament, is interested in testimonials and case studies from small...

On 12 March 2024, the RAWMINA and CRM-geothermal projects jointly organised a webinar on "Frontier technologies for sustainable extraction of critical raw materials".

Geothermal energy can play a significant role in the fight against climate change. It is a renewable and sustainable heat and electricity source that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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CEEGS Project: Newsletter #1

CEEGS newsletter #1 by ceegsproject | Mar 4, 2024 | NewsWe invite you to discover our first newsletter which provides an overview of: The current status of our research and selected highli...

A volcano in Iceland erupted Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky.

In the Italian town of Nepi last year, a school covered floorspace in sheets and asked children to draw how they would change the urban layout. Elsewhere in the town, a care centre for elderly people quizzed them on the same topic in a questionnaire.Th...

Dr Quentin Bletery has some good news regarding an all-too-often gloomy subject: earthquakes. A researcher at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, or IRD, Bletery thinks it might one day be possible to predict strong eart...

Could a daring experiment help our planet or is it a dangerous distraction?

Germany's greenhouse gas emissions dropped by one-tenth last year as renewable energy grew in importance, the use of coal and gas diminished and economic pressures weighed on businesses and consumers, official data showed Friday.

French President Emmanuel Macron lobbied at a Franco-Czech Energy Forum in Prague on Tuesday (5 March) for the state-owned energy giant EDF's bid to build new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic.

Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday (5 March), something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built.

Nuclear technologies should benefit from all types of EU funding, such as the European Investment Bank (EIB) and innovation funds, the French-led nuclear alliance, which now has 12 EU member states, said at its meeting on Monday.

Leaked documents from the emails of Russian politicians show that the Kremlin, through Russian and Belarusian companies, had full control over the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline through Bulgaria from 2019-2021, despite then-Prime Minis...

Europe is on track to end the winter with a record volume of gas in storage, which has pushed futures prices back to pre-crisis levels once inflation is taken into account.

Bulgaria has started negotiations with Azerbaijan to increase gas supplies to Romania, Moldova and Ukraine through the future vertical Balkan gas corridor, the Bulgarian parliament’s press centre announced on Monday.

On Monday 18 March, the Council adopted a new law to protect wholesale energy markets from manipulation. The new regulation aims to strengthen market surveillance and guarantee open and fair competition in the European Union.

French candidates topping the lists for the EU elections in June laid bare their differences on nuclear energy and the EU electricity market in the first televised debate of Public Sénat on Thursday (14 March).

The sharp drop in the EU's CO2 price, caused by high energy prices and political uncertainty, risks the carbon market's credibility – and becomes an obstacle to the bloc's industrial decarbonisation.

The EU’s new and evolving forest monitoring framework has lawmakers contesting the benefits of harvesting optimum broad data sets, weighted against cost burdens for the forestry industry in acquiring the data.

Bulgarian nuclear experts are questioning the economic feasibility of the country’s plan to build two US nuclear reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, raising questions on funding and whether the country has the means to purchase energy from th...

France's EDF has recently come under fire for increasing project costs and delays, while problems with its existing fleet of reactors have resurfaced. Euractiv looks at what this means for the state-owned energy giant as the industry appears to be in f...

The election of a new government in Poland has enabled this Central European country to revive its ambitions in terms of energy transition and to meet European targets.

Europe needs to take immediate action to address the rapidly increasing climate challenges, the EU's environment agency said in its first European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA), published on Monday (11 March), which identified 36 major risks.

Satellites sitting more than 22,200 miles above the Earth's surface have been capturing storms and weather data for decades. Now, scientists have essentially hacked the data coming back for another purpose: spotting methane emissions.

Greece dominates the list of top performers for winning Horizon Europe funding among the 15 EU Widening countries, with six out of the top 10 places taken by the country’s institutions. Out on top is the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH...

The European Commission should improve the adoption and publication of research work programmes in the next framework programme, FP10, say universities of applied sciences.

A new ZOiS Report analyzes the various effects of Russia's war against Ukraine on the Arctic region. The authors also assess how a baseline of coordination with Russia on the vital issues of security and climate change could be re-established for the s...

Global warming, the long-term warming of Earth's overall temperature, has greatly accelerated in the last 100 years due to human factors such as the burning of fossil fuels. Along with this trend, certain atmospheric phenomena have also changed, such a...

Greenpeace could be thrown out of the UN body overseeing deep-sea mining for obstructing a research expedition.

BGS has been awarded a two-year research project to undertake the first assessment of microplastic occurrence in springs in the UK.

A skeleton lies exposed to the elements as turquoise Caribbean waters lap the shores near a shattered tomb—a grisly reminder that the Colombian city of Cartagena is slowly being swallowed by the sea.

Gas hydrates are great alternative energy sources but they could also harm us and the environment, note geologists from the University of the Philippines.

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