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Back to homepageRivers must flow: The case against big dams 0
Post Views: 65 Lori Pottinger Lori Pottinger has worked for the California-based International Rivers for 17 years. Large dams threaten the planet’s riverine lifelines and action must be taken soon It is estimated that dams globally have flooded a total area larger
Read MoreUrgencias climáticas 0
Post Views: 12 Ignacio Ramonet Le Monde Diplomatique La grave crisis financiera y el horror económico que padecen las sociedades europeas están haciendo olvidar que –como lo recordó, en diciembre pasado, la Cumbre del clima de Durban, en Sudáfrica– el
Read MoreCumbre del clima en Durban Marchando hacia el precipicio 0
Post Views: 7 Noam Chomsky La Jornada Una tarea de la Convención Marco sobre Cambio Climático de Naciones Unidas, que en la actualidad está teniendo lugar en Durban, Sudáfrica, es extender las decisiones políticas previas, limitadas en alcance y solamente
Read MoreLa Diputación de Gipuzkoa se reafirma en abogar por una moratoria para la incineradora 0
Post Views: 9 INCINERADORA El diputado guipuzcoano de Medio Ambiente, Juan Karlos Alduntzin, ha anunciado que el ente foral apuesta por aplicar una moratoria al proyecto de la incineradora en Zubieta, con el fin de fomentar un debate entre la
Read MoreSix-year-old girl died from cold in Van centre 0
Post Views: 15 Cold weather and hunger continue to claim lives in Van which has been hit by two major earthquakes in the last month. Six-year-old Öznur Örgün died of cold and hunger in the while fighting to survive under
Read MoreSobre transgénicos, agroecología, democracia y capitalismo 0
Post Views: 15 Jorge Riechmann Rebelión Reflexiones para concluir las jornadas “Los transgénicos en el ámbito científico, agrícola, medioambiental y de la salud”, Escuela de Organización Industrial (Madrid), 10 y 11 de noviembre de 2011Sobreestimamos lo que sabemos –en una
Read MoreQuake-hit Van a ‘ghost city,’ governor says 0
Post Views: 12 AP, ANKARA Earthquake survivors receive food aid in Erci?, near the eastern turkish city of Van. (Photo: Reuters) Two powerful earthquakes that struck eastern Turkey have left a city of half a million a virtual ghost town,
Read MoreQuake victims in tents battle freezing cold 0
Post Views: 15 ISTANBUL Photo: AA Quake victims in Van are grappling with severe weather conditions as the temperature decreased to seven degrees below zero and snow covered much of the region over the weekend, sparking questions over how locals
Read MoreFresh quake in Turkey’s Van kills at least 8, dozens trapped 0
Post Views: 10 TODAYSZAMAN.COM WITH AP One of the collapsed buildings was the Bayram Hotel, Van’s best-known hotel. It was at least 40 years old, and had been renovated last year. (Photo: Today’s Zaman) Rescue workers have pulled out some
Read MoreCost of anticipated countrywide urban renewal project estimated at $255 bln 0
Post Views: 11 TODAY’S ZAMAN, ?STANBUL A construction worker hoses down the debris of a building demolished by a buldozer during an urban renewal study in the western province of ?zmir. An anticipated countrywide urban renewal project in the wake
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