В Китае пустыню Такла-Макан окружили гигантским «барьером»
Проект по окружению крупнейшей пустыни Поднебесной заграждениями завершился 28 ноября. Он нацелен на предупреждение опустынивания и восстановление почвы в пустыне.
Вся защитная система растянулась на 3046 км по периметру пустыни. Она включает в себя ограждения из тростника и посадки засухоустойчивых растений, в том числе евфратского тополя, саксаула и кизила.
В Китае пустыню Такла-Макан окружили гигантским «барьером»
Проект по окружению крупнейшей пустыни Поднебесной заграждениями завершился 28 ноября. Он нацелен на предупреждение опустынивания и восстановление почвы в пустыне.
Вся защитная система растянулась на 3046 км по периметру пустыни. Она включает в себя ограждения из тростника и посадки засухоустойчивых растений, в том числе евфратского тополя, саксаула и кизила.
Overall, extreme levels of fear in the market seems to have morphed into something more resembling concern. For example, the Cboe Volatility Index fell from its 2022 peak of 36, which it hit Monday, to around 30 on Friday, a sign of easing tensions. Meanwhile, while the price of WTI crude oil slipped from Sunday’s multiyear high $130 of barrel to $109 a pop. Markets have been expecting heavy restrictions on Russian oil, some of which the U.S. has already imposed, and that would reduce the global supply and bring about even more burdensome inflation. A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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