Fuente: La Jornada por Alejandro Nadal 25 de noviembre, 2009 Los pronósticos de la comunidad científica sobre el cambio climático son claros. Las concentraciones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) alcanzarán niveles peligrosos en pocos años. Los efectos sobre la temperatura promedio global ya se dejan sentir, precipitando el deshielo de glaciares y de la capa de hielo [...]

Source: Common Wonders Babies With No Heads, 2 Heads or Monstrous Deformities by Robert C. Koehler November 25, 2009 In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children. This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in [...]

Fuente: Rebelión por Lucía Sepúlveda Ruiz 26 de noviembre, 2009 Dos brotes –intoxicaciones masivas por plaguicidas- se produjeron en los últimos días en distintas comunas de la provincia de Linares, Región del Maule, en la zona central de Chile, clave para la agroexportación. La primera ocurrió el sábado 21 de noviembre en el fundo El Antojo, ubicado en [...]

Source: The New Internationalist A new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it’s a business opportunity by Oscar Reyes December 2009 A flower blooms under a floodlight. It is projected on to a huge screen, behind a panel of expensively suited executives. A CNN business correspondent [...]

Source: Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON – Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday. As it is, humanity each year uses resources equivalent to nearly one-and-a-half Earths to meet its needs, said the report by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank. “We are [...]

versión en español abajo by Environment News Service November 18, 2009 NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge ruled late [Wednesday]. The decision could make the federal government the target of billions of dollars worth of legal [...]

Fuente: América Latina en Movimiento por Jorge Majfud 21 de noviembre, 2009 Los períodos de calentamiento global no son un invento humano. Pero los humanos hemos inventado la forma de convertir un ciclo natural en una anomalía. Su gravedad puede exceder la tragedia de una, de muchas bombas atómicas, pero no vemos la explosión porque vivimos dentro de [...]

Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges November 23, 2009 There are some 614 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down. No one in the White House will do it. No one in Congress will do it. And no one at the coming U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen will [...]

Fuente: The Independent Traducción: Àngel Ferrero, Sin Permiso por Steve Connor y Michael McCarthy 18 de noviembre, 2009 El mundo se encuentra en rumbo firme hacia el peor de los escenarios posibles en lo que se refiere al cambio climático, con la media mundial de temperaturas subiendo hasta 6º C a finales de siglo, según advirtieron destacados científicos ayer. [...]

Source: The Guardian by Bob Ward November 20, 2009 Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, with the hacking of email messages between some of the world’s leading researchers on global temperature trends. But as usually happens in the blogosphere, this episode is generating more heat than light and is [...]