Baikal. Champagne. Kyoto...

Mikhail V. PANCHENKO

Putting in another way a well-known phrase, we can say that a drop of champagne — a beverage which starts its life on a grapevine, fills with solar energy and after a long chain of transformations gets into your glass — is an excellent model reflecting many of the processes that occur when live nature interacts with man. Among these processes is carbon dioxide circulation, now considered to be responsible for the global climate changes of the last decades, which have been such a troubling issue for mankind...

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