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European convention of human rights in judgments in Urgenda case

The article analyzes the decision of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in a case brought by a NGO Urgenda. The arguments of the courts of different instances regarding the possibility of applying the rules of the European Convention of Human Rights in the cases of climate change are highlighted. It is stated that the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of the Netherlands have applied Art. 2 and 8 of the Convention in their classic sense by the European Court of Human Rights

THE DICHOTOMY OF THE‘ MANIPULATIVE VERSUS COUNTER-MANIPULATIVE IMPACT’: DOES IT EXIST IN THE ENGLISH- WRITTEN MASS MEDIA TEXTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE?

Problem .For all the undisputable good that mass media have afforded the society, they are as well known to be exploiting on a high scale the means of manipulation which results in the public being deceived or told half-truth, information distorted, an individual recipient misled. Elucidating the means and markers of manipulation in a media text constitutes a formidable problem of media linguistics. It cannot be otherwise because it is the nature of manipulation to hide the means of its impact.

Triggering of earthquakes of Azov-Black Sea basin by seiche deformation of the ground

Purpose. Evaluation of possible causes of earthquakes in the area of waters by comparing the Earth's surface deformations, caused by their own variations of water, with deformations, caused by stress from pressure created ponds. Method. The method is based on the hypothesis of the possibility of excitation of the earthquake as a result of the fatigue defects, which accumulated in the intense tectonic fault due to oscillation of seiche-triggered wave. Lithosphere deformations, caused by pressure of seiche-triggered waves, form the lattice of antinode lines. Results.