Santiago, Chile (UPI) Nov 15, 2010 – Chile is working on a $3.85 billion plan to pipe freshwater to its arid north as part of a government strategy to stimulate social and economic development in the region. The ambitious project, now in an advanced stage, will involve laying a pipeline undersea for about 600 […]
By Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, www.guardian.co.ukTuesday 26 October 2010 04.25 BST One of the most important tributaries of the Amazon river has fallen to its lowest level in over a century, following a fierce drought that has isolated tens of thousands of rainforest inhabitants and raised concerns about the possible impact of climate […]
www.mongabay.comOctober 12, 2010 Brazil will auction large blocks of the Amazon rainforest to private timber companies as part of an effort to reduce demand for illegal logging, reports Reuters. The government will grant 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of logging concessions by the end of the year, according to Antonio Carlos Hummel, head of […]
Monday, October 11, 2010 A couple of months ago, I traveled with my Amazon Watch colleagues Mitch and Kevin into the Ecuadorian Amazon, where we met up with our friend Donald, an activist with the Amazon Defense Coalition. In this video, Mitch and Donald illustrate Chevron’s toxic legacy in Ecuador, in the form of one […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2010) — The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers conclude in the first major study to ever examine “evapotranspiration” on a global basis. Most climate models have suggested that […]
By Marcela ValenteSep 19, 2010 BUENOS AIRES (Tierramérica) – Argentina’s glaciers, along with Chile’s the most extensive of South America, manifest the damage caused by climate change, while they also face threats from mining and major transportation infrastructure projects. A law to protect them has been postponed yet again. Glaciers are vast reserves of freshwater, […]
In years past, when Desdemona was still in the grip of delusional hope, there was the possibility that the internet might spark a revolution in human consciousness, and that we might overthrow the sociopaths who dominate the various power elites. Desdemona had been scrutinizing the Bush family very closely, after watching, with increasing horror, the […]
Contact: Karen Hinton at 703-798-3109 or Karen@hintoncommunications.com 17 September 2010 Lago Agrio, Ecuador (September 17) – A group of highly respected American technical and medical experts, using conservative assumptions, have concluded that it could cost Chevron up to tens of billions of dollars to clean up oil waste discharged into Ecuador’s rainforest and compensate local […]
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 15, 2010 – A severe drought parching northern Brazil this year has shrunk the mighty Amazon River — the world’s longest river — to its lowest level in 47 years, officials said Wednesday. The waterway’s depth at Manaus, the main city in the Amazon region, was just 19.34 meters (63.45 […]
Lake level products from the NASA/USDA/FAS. Topex/Poseidon (blue), Jason-1 (red), and Jason-2 (purple) radar altimeters. The lakes reside in the USA (Michigan), Argentina (Chiquita), Iran (Urmia), Tanzania (Rukwa), and China (Hulun). State of the Climate in 2009, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, as appearing in the June 2010 issue (Vol. 91) […]
