Calderón convoca a defender el medio ambiente. Ciudad de México | Domingo 22 de abril de 2012Notimex | El Universal21:59 Como parte de la conmemoración del Día de la Tierra, el presidente Felipe Calderón Hinojosa convocó a los ciudadanos a reflexionar sobre la importancia que para la humanidad tiene la defensa del medio ambiente.
A través de su cuenta en Twitter @FelipeCalderon y mediante varios mensajes, el Ejecutivo federal señaló que esta conmemoración es un buen momento "para pensar en los desafíos que en materia ambiental enfrenta la humanidad" . El mandatario recordó que el cambio climático es una realidad que afecta a todo el mundo y por lo tanto toda la humanidad está obligada a atenderlo. También hizo ver que México consiguió romper el tabú en el sentido de que la lucha contra el cambio climático es responsabilidad única de los países desarrollados. ml. Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists - Features. New Orleans, LA - "The fishermen have never seen anything like this," Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera.
"And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I've never seen anything like this either. " Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University's Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010. Cowan's findings replicate those of others living along vast areas of the Gulf Coast that have been impacted by BP's oil and dispersants. Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP's 2010 oil disaster.
Eyeless shrimp Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, are finding eyeless shrimp. "We've fished here all our lives and have never seen anything like this," he added. Green: Death of the Forests - Witness. Filmmaker: Patrick Rouxel This extraordinary visual essay, told with no human commentary at all, explores the impact of deforestation and the exploitation of natural resources in Indonesia from the point of view of a dying orangutan called Green.
Stunning images of the natural world and its biodiversity are counter-pointed with scenes of their destruction and the resulting cruelty to animals. The film takes viewers on an emotional journey, following Green's final days and revealing the devastating impact of logging, land-clearing and palm oil plantations. NOTE: This film, which can be viewed through the link to the film's website below, contains upsetting scenes including cruelty to animals. By Patrick Rouxel In 1991, after dropping out of medical school in Paris, I read Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne.
My mid-life crisis awoke a boyish desire to be out in the wild observing wildlife. The Internet Indians - The Fight for Amazonia. Amazonia is much more than just the earth's lungs: it is home to 20 per cent of the world's fauna, 20 per cent of its fresh water reserves and countless animal species.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Brazil started the conquest of the massive ancient forest in order to increase the country's prosperity - a people without land moved to a land without people, built roads, dams and cities. Since then, two million hectares of tropical rainforest have been burned down and cleared in the Amazon every year. An area approximately the same size as France, 65 million hectares, has now disappeared. Today, the earth's largest forest is home to 20 million people: All of them have their own, usually conflicting, ideas about the future development of the Amazon region. The Internet IndiansA film by Ilka Franzmann "The internet is our weapon. The Ashaninka live on the border of Brazil and Peru. When the tribe confronts the logging mafia their villages are attacked and the villagers killed or driven away.
The Fight for Amazonia. Cold paralyses life across much of Europe - Europe. Europe continues to battle severe freezing weather that has killed hundreds of people, with transport and navigation services badly hit across the continent cutting off tens of thousands of people.
Thick ice has closed hundreds of kilometres of the Danube river in half-a-dozen countries and confined scores of ships to port on the busiest European waterway, officials said on Thursday. The 2,860km-river, which flows through nine countries and is vital for transport, power, irrigation, industry and fishing, was wholly or partially blocked from Austria to its mouth on the Black Sea. With ice floes in the river around Belgrade up to half a metre thick, the Belgrade port authority said that all vessels on the 600km stretch through Serbia were safely in port. A government ban on navigation on all the country's waterways was expected to remain in place for about 10 days, Pavle Galic, the deputy infrastructure minister, told the Beta news agency.
Villages trapped. Les glaciers de l’Himalaya résistent-ils au changement climatique. Les pics les plus enneigés du monde, qui courent de l'Himalaya aux monts Tian, à la frontière entre la Chine et le Kirghizistan, n'ont pas perdu de glace au cours de la dernière décennie.
Cette affirmation pour le moins surprenante, allant à l'encontre de tous les derniers rapports sur les effets du réchauffement climatique, est issue d'une nouvelle étude publiée mercredi 8 février dans la revue Nature, qui a provoqué la stupéfaction de la communauté scientifique.