![[:en]Incorporating Induced Seismicity in the 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model—Results of 2014 Workshop and Sensitivity Studies[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/fracking3_web-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Incorporating Induced Seismicity in the 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model—Results of 2014 Workshop and Sensitivity Studies[:]
[:en][By Mark D. Petersen, Charles S. Mueller, Morgan P. Moschetti, Susan M. Hoover, Justin L. Rubinstein, Andrea L. Llenos, Andrew J. Michael, William L. Ellsworth, Arthur F. McGarr, Austin A. Holland, and John G. Anderson] Abstract The U.S. Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Model for the conterminous United States was updated in 2014 to account for new methods, input models, and data necessary for assessing the...
L’UE dice sì agli OGM: Monsanto ringrazia
[di Gabriele Cruciata su Il Vittoriale] «Queste autorizzazioni confermano che Juncker non ha alcuna intenzione di avvicinare l’Unione Europea ai suoi cittadini, ma vuole solamente agevolare gli interessi di Stati Uniti e Monsanto». Con queste parole Federica Ferrario, responsabile della campagna Agricoltura Sostenibile di Greenpeace, ha accolto la decisione della Commissione UE – capitanata dal lussemburghese Jean-Claude Juncker – di...
![[:en]Ethiopia: from autarchy to developmentalism[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mele_funeral-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Ethiopia: from autarchy to developmentalism[:]
[:en][By Ivan Cuesta-Fernandez on entitleblog.org] As fast-track growth overhauls the Ethiopian society, the regime is obliged to re-consider its recipe of mixed authoritarianism and development – as Franco’s Spain was. On May 24 Ethiopia will celebrate its fifth parliamentary elections. A defeat of the incumbent Ethiopia’s People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), in power since 1991, appears as highly unlikely. Such a...
![[:en]UN Climate Summit Poem “Dear Matafele Peinem”[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/dear-matafele-peinem-240x240.jpg)
[:en]UN Climate Summit Poem “Dear Matafele Peinem”[:]
[:en][by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner on youtube.it] On 23 September 2014, 26 year old poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, from the Marshall Islands, addressed the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit. Kathy was selected from among over 500 civil society candidates in an open, global nomination process conducted by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. Kathy performed a new poem entitled “Dear Matafele...
[:en]The top twenty coal banks[:]
[:en][on coalbanks.org] The overall state of the global banking sector’s support for the coal industry is not a pretty picture, with 2013 a record year for coal finance. To really bring home the reality of the findings contained in our latest report on coal finance, we’ve created some attractive visualisations. Once you’ve had a look, we hope the infographics will inspire you to contact the Top 20 coal banks...
![[:en]The Gulf Oil Spill Disintegrated This Island[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bird-island-near-cat-island1-1024x765-240x240.jpg)
[:en]The Gulf Oil Spill Disintegrated This Island[:]
[:en][on video.nationalgeographic.com] Cat Island was once one of the four largest bird-nesting grounds in Louisiana. But the Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed the mangroves growing there, destroying the root system that held the island’s sediment in place. Since 2010, the 5.5 acre island has been washing away into the Gulf of Mexico, and migratory birds find their home disappearing before their eyes. Published in April 14,...
