Πριν 5 χρόνια αναζωπυρώθηκαν οι αντιδράσεις των ντόπιων κατοίκων και των περιβαλλοντικών οργανώσεων και κινήσεων στο άκουσμα της είδησης για την εκτροπή του Αώου, του ποταμού που πηγάζει από ελληνικό έδαφος και διασχίζει τη Βόρεια Πίνδο, σε Ελλάδα και Αλβανία. Έχοντας βιώσει τις αρνητικές συνέπειες που άφησε ως κατάλοιπο η κατασκευή του υδροηλεκτρικού φράγματος [...]
The lignite fields of Ptolemaida resemble a European version of the Grand Canyon, where in its depths, dozens of trucks can be spotted that continue to bring the coal to the ever-hungry power stations in the vicinity. At the end of the western field, you can see the village of Mavropigi. The field extends right [...]
Costa Rica was thought to be one of the “greenest” countries in the world, because of its high biodiversity and of the fact that it has the highest percentage of protected areas on the planet (25% of its surface), which makes many people call the country “a paradise on earth”. However, in 2002 Glencairn Gold [...]
The explosion of the oil mining platform of Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010, for unexplained yet causes, and the ecological disaster that followed in the Gulf of Mexico, was one of the most important environmental accidents of the last decade. This explosion killed 11 employees of the British multinational oil company BP and [...]
In March 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef, causing the leak of tens of thousands tones of oil in the Gulf of Alaska. Ιt took only a few minutes to open a large hole in the single shell tanker and approximately 11 million gallons (40,000 tones) of oil from the 53 million gallons [...]
The so-called Minamata disease, a type of mercury poisoning, took its name from the locus of the appearance of the first incidents in 1956 in the population of the wider area of Minamata Bay (Japan). Investigations to locate the source of mercury poisoning pointed to Chisso, a chemical factory operating in the area. Ten years [...]
Central Evia has two natural drainages of surface water, one by the Evian Gulf and one in the Aegean Sea. Due to the high rates of rainfall it receives, it is considered as a water-rich region. The data of a hydrogeological survey held in the period 1997-2002 disclosed that groundwater is enriched with huge pollutant [...]
