Brazil 'on alert' over Ecuador spill
Source: BBC
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-06-09 20:01:25 -0700 | green-news
Brazil 'on alert' over an oil spill from Ecuador Petroecuador says it will clean up the spill Brazil is "on alert" over an oil spill that originated in Ecuador and is travelling downstream towards the Brazilian Amazon. In a statement,...
Scientists gather in Galapagos Islands to discuss evolution
Source: NewKerala
Quito :: Ecuador | updated 2013-06-04 22:08:07 -0700 | green-news
The scientists are attending the 3rd World Summit on Evolution on the Pacific archipelago, organizers told EFE. Spain's Francisco Baquero, of the Instituto Ramon y Cajal de Investigacion Sanitaria, and Roderic Guigo, who leads a research team at the genomics...
Ecuador oil spill pollutes Amazon tributary
Source: Fox News
Quito :: Ecuador | updated 2013-06-04 10:01:07 -0700 | green-news
Ecuador Ecuador's state oil company says it has resumed pumping through the country's main pipeline four days after it was damaged by a landslide. But a spill caused by the slide polluted drinking water for a city of about...
Ecuador's Fragile Paramo Ecosystem Threatened by Climate Change
Source: Inter Press Service
Loja :: Ecuador | updated 2013-06-04 07:01:10 -0700 | green-news
IPS Articles But the paramo ecosystem has a limited capacity for recovering its original structure and biodiversity once these are altered, warned the founder of the non-profit scientific organisation EcoCiencia , Patricio Mena. It is intrinsically very fragile, which means...
Pre-historic tortoises lived in Amazon
Source: NewKerala
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-27 21:47:26 -0700 | green-news
The researchers constructed a tortoise made of stone, plaster and foam. The pre-historic tortoises lived in the Amazon about 8 million years ago and were similar to those inhabiting the Pacific islands off Ecuador today. Giant chelonoidis fossils were found...
Boulder's Stratus Consulting played key role in Ecuador oil field figh
Source: Denver Post
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-25 23:36:44 -0700 | green-news
Font Resize An acclaimed Boulder environmental consulting firm finds itself in the middle of an international legal controversy involving oil giant Chevron and sensational allegations of fraud, bribery, extortion and corruption by various parties in the case.
BGU experts to help preserve Galapagos Islands
Source: Jerusalem Post
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-25 12:53:10 -0700 | green-news
A Galapagos giant tortoise is pictured during its annual weighing at Riga Zoo July 12, 2012. Ints Kalnins The exotic Galapagos Islands, which lie on the equator about 1,000 kilometers off the west coast of South America, are a treasure...
Satellite collides with Soviet-era rocket
Source: Al Jazeera English
Quito :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-23 23:10:27 -0700 | green-news
26 Ecuador's space agency said Pegaso's collision occurred over Madagascar's east coast [La Republica] A small Ecuadoran satellite that collided in space with the remains of a Soviet-era rocket has survived the crash, but is damaged and not transmitting, Quito's...
Incredible pictures show swarms of beautiful insects feeding off the tears of turtles in the ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-23 09:39:47 -0700 | green-news
Dozens of butterflies swarm around the yellow-spotted turtle's face to drink its tears The turtle appears to pull its head away as the orange and yellow butterflies take turns for a drink The reptiles, pictured in the Amazon, were sunbathing...
Ecuador fears for first satellite
Source: BBC
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-23 03:02:31 -0700 | green-news
Ecuador Pegasus satellite fears over space debris crash NEE-01 Pegaso is Ecuador's first satellite in space The Ecuadorean space agency (EXA) is trying to pick up signals from its satellite after it was found to be on a collision course...
If Earth Had a Ring Like Saturn
Source: io9
Quito :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-20 16:14:26 -0700 | green-news
Our planet is lucky enough to have a large moon orbiting not too far away, which makes for very pretty moonlit nights. But for spectacular skies it might almost be worth trading in our moon for a ring like Saturn's....
March to Stop Monsanto
Source: Scoop
Quito :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-16 14:58:52 -0700 | green-news
Rotorua joins the International March Against Monsanto' May 25...March Against Monsanto has announced that on May 25, hundreds of thousands of activists around the world will March Against Monsanto . Currently, marches are being planned on six continents, in 41...
Peru bans GMOs: Will America take the hint and follow suit before it's too late?
Source: Natural News
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-07 23:22:58 -0700 | green-news
The only other country in the Americas besides Ecuador to completely ban genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) from being cultivated within its borders, the South American nation of Peru has taken charge to help protect not only its own citizens but also...
Incredible photo captures bee that survives by sucking up a turtlei¿½s tears for the first time ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-06 02:59:04 -0700 | green-news
The endangered yellow-spotted river turtle cannot easily brush the salty liquid away, while the solitary bee needs sodium in its diet. It is believed to be the first time this incredible natural phenomenon has been caught on film and was...
Amazon nations' observation center to protect rain forest
Source: NewKerala
Quito :: Ecuador | updated 2013-05-05 23:02:43 -0700 | green-news
Taking part in the meeting at Coca in the Ecuadorian Amazon were representatives of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guiana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. Amazon, as a reference center for regional information on biodiversity, natural resources and social diversity."
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