A major earthquake in Haiti
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Yesterday Tuesday, a violent earthquake, a magnitude of 7, struck Haiti. The damage is considerable, especially in Port-au-Prince, the capital. The number of victims is unknown at this time. He was 16 h 53 local time this Tuesday, January 12, 2010 (21 h 53 in time universal,
Major volcanic eruption is preparing Does Indonesia
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The assumption seems plausible. Already in 1835, Charles Darwin had speculated on the possibility of volcanic eruptions triggered by earthquakes. Today, the volcanologist David Pyle, University of Oxford (UK) and colleagues Sebastian Watt Tamsin Mather and reviewed
Earth seen from space: Hawaii Pacific hotspot
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All the main islands of this archipelago is formed by volcanic mountain peaks, which are formed there are several million years when the rock basaltic melt has escaped from a fault in the seafloor. Located above a hot spot of magma at the heart of the Pacific Plate, the islands of Hawaii ((Hawaii in English, [...]
Earth seen from space: the land of lakes and volcanoes
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The Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific coast (in the form of leg, left on the picture below article) is a natural port shared between Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. Cosiguina Peninsula, bordering the Gulf South, was formed by sand, ash and lava from the volcano Cosiguina, located at its tip.
Penultimate round for the post-Kyoto
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More than 1,600 written contributions by 80 experts from all countries on climate change will be presented from Tuesday at the IPCC conference in Copenhagen, which could be the last chance. In December, the agreement will replace the Kyoto takes effect. The objective of this meeting is to update the scientific data collected since the [...]
Tropical forests absorb more CO2 than previously believed
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The good news, an international study has shown that rainforests store more carbon than they release. They now absorb almost one fifth of emissions of human carbon dioxide. Each year, humans and their activities release 32 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (or carbon dioxide), according to IPCC data. However, there are only 15 billion in [...]
120 countries gathered for a global crisis
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Today, one billion people short of water. In 2030, the shortage will affect half of humanity. On this finding has started in Istanbul on Fifth Global Forum on Water. For one week, 30,000 people from around the world, including 15,000 researchers and policy makers, 180 ministers and 25 heads of state will discuss a critical [...]
Earth seen from space: Aral, ice and salt
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This image taken by Envisat shows the Aral Sea taken by the ice, which straddles the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. In fact the sea, it is rather a large salt lake. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea has shrunk steadily over the past five decades. In [...]
warming are grossly under-estimated
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The integration of economic factors influencing the ongoing climate warming shows that without a rapid and massive, the situation may be at least twice as bad as expected. A new study spearheaded by a research team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), headed by Professor Ronald Prinn, incorporates for the first time a wide range [...]
Global Conference on Oceans: he must rescue at sea
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International Scientific Forum organized by Indonesia, the World Conference of the ocean comes to end with a solemn appeal: the mobilization against the degradation of the seas. The so-called small island states threatened by rising sea level, sound the alarm on the problem of climate refugees. We must “rescue the oceans.” It is on this [...]
