The title is wrong. The money is not taken from the russian assets but rather interest earned from those assets. The original assets are left intact. FTA:
The European Commission has disbursed an additional 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) to Ukraine, to be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets, the commission announced on March 20.
Except moving production to US means giving away the only thing that keeps US interested in protecting Taiwan.
Do you have data for Jan 2025 and/or Feb 2024?
We should start by subsidizing plant based materials instead of oil based. We're literary paying extra to make more plastic.
That's beside my point. They talk about the difference between photosynthesis efficacy with and without MPs, but don't explain how the MPs affect the process.
Yeah but that means what exactly? Plastic deposits on the surface of the plant? Water contamination? Something else?
What's the mechanism for photosynthesis reduction? It's not explained in the PNAS article nor the abstract of the original paper, which is a meta-analysis.
It there ANY reason that a ghost fleet exists other than avoiding EU law?