On the 22-nd of September, Car-Free Day is celebrated in many countries. It is a date when all automobilists and motorcyclists are offered to omit usage of transport vehicles at least for 24 hours and move on foot or by bicycle.
Tradition of Car-Free Day arrangement began in England in 1997, and within a year it was held in France. Then this day was celebrated in nearly 20 cities. In return, by 2001 more than thousand of cities in 35 countries joined the movement officially. Car-Free Day promulges omission of private automobile transportation in honour of public transport: underground, trams, trolley-buses, etc. It allows to reduce emissions of deleterious gases into atmosphere and thereby conduces improvement of ecological situation on the planet. Today it is impossible to omit usage of cars, however, we should remember the problems caused by automobile transport at least once a year. It is the main idea of annual celebration of Car-Free Day.
The private British schools are going to make contributions up to ten thousand of free-of-charge places for education of children from the families with the low level of income.
According to the information provided by Guardian on the 6-th of December, the famous singer Lady Gaga visited the centre in New York where LGBT-youth reside who do not have a permanent accommodation.
The famous in the world artist Hailey King working under the trademark FLOX has created the design of Christmas baubles depicting flower with medical peculiarities manuka. With the help of sales FLOX intends to arrange December campaign on the collection of financial expenses for the support of hospices in New Zealand.
Classic works created by the famous British artist and children writer Quentin Blake as well as pictures painted by English rock-musician Erik Clapton, the composer of electronic music Brian Eno, and Scottish actor Peter Capaldi are put for the sales on the 7-th of December. The organizers of the stated event are planning to collect money for the further functioning of London gallery.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Protected environmental zone with the square of more than 1.5 million square kilometers will be located in Ross Sea. The agreement has been signed by European Union and 24 more countries, including Russia.
Since 1907 the population of mammals, fishes, birds, amphibia and reptiles has reduced by almost 60%, as it is said in the report of World Wild Nature Fund.
Netherlandish authority will prepare a legislative act implying the legalization of assistance in voluntary leaving of this life for those who consider that ‘their lives have run their courses’, however, not compulsory is death sick.
The experts of World Economic forum (WEF) defined the safest countries in the world. The leader of the tanking where 141 states were included became Finland, as it is stated in the report of World Economic forum.
In the world every seven second the girl aged younger than fifteen years gets married, as it is stated in the report of charitable organization Save The Children.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
At the beach Legzira located at the Atlantic coast of Morocco, there was a wreckage of one of two stone arches that used to be the famous sightseeing of the country. The Guardian reports about that.
The delegates of the conference of Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) happened in Republic of South Africa voted for prohibition of international trade in African gray parrots.
The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse Priscilla Chan entered into a bond to contribute 3 billion dollars from personal finances in funding medical investigations during the next decade. The couple expects that it could help to fight off all the famous illnesses by the end of century.
