The widespread adoption of genetically modified crops during the last 10 years has fueled an agricultural revolution in Argentina. To the present day 98 percent of soya in the country is GM and in parts of the Pampa 90 percent of the crop is soya which means that there is no crop rotation at all. The reason why [...]
Genetically modified soy began to be planted consistently in Argentina around 1996. According to the business chamber that represents producers of grains and cereals, (the Cámara de la Industria Aceitera-Centro de Exportadores de Cereales) in 1990, there were only 4.8 million hectares of soy while nowadays soy covers 31 million hectares and is Argentina’s leading [...]
For the production of microchips used in our everyday electronic devices a compound of columbite and tantalite called coltan is used. Coltan is a black mineral from which niobium and tantalum are extracted. Because of its hardness and excellent conductibility, coltan is an important constituent in the production of small electronic parts for electronic devices [...]
A mobile phone contains several metals and it contains microchips that use extremely hard and highly conductible elements. Starting from arouind 2000, for the production of microchips a compound of columbite and tantalite called coltan has been used. Coltan is a black mineral from which niobium and tantalum are extracted. Because of its hardness and [...]
A warning has been issued by the World Bank. 12 million poor people who live in coastal regions of Bangladesh are already threatened. A country that live with victims and damage caused by floods and cyclones. The most devastating human impacts in recent history were recorded in 1970 when some 300-500,000 Bangladeshis died in the [...]
According to the report Act Now or Pay Later: Protecting a billion people in climate-threatened coastal cities written by the British NGO Christian Aid and published in May 2016, not later than 2060 more than one billion people will experience coastal flooding because of a combination of factors such as rising sea levels, tidal surges [...]
El Quimbo is a hydroelectric power plant in the southern Colombian province of Huila and the second-largest facility of its kind in South America. Since the very beginning the project faced major resistance from residents, who were never consulted by the dam builder Emgesa, ( which isa Colombian subsidiary of the Spanish utility Endesa and [...]
El Quimbo is a hydroelectric power plant in the southern Colombian province of Huila and the second-largest facility of its kind in South America. It consists of a 151-metre high and 632 meters long concrete-faced rock fill dam on the Magdalena River . There is also an auxiliary dam of 66 metres height and 390 [...]
Donald Trump has recently confirmed that he will withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, claiming that the accord ‘will harm’ American jobs. He claimed that he came to such a decision in order to fulfil his solemn duty to the United States and its citizens. In the meantime an entire community in Louisiana,USA [...]
A small Native American community living in Isle de Jean Charles in coastal Louisiana is to be resettled after losing nearly all its land. The island is inhabitated by Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a Native American tribe living in the Louisiana coastal wetlands and has lost almost 98% of its land since the 1950s. partly due to sea [...]
