Political participation in Latin America still low: Report
Source: NewKerala
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-23 07:21:26 -0700 | green-news
These include an increased number of indigenous movements, which also benefited from communications technology, including mobile phones, the Internet and social media; the expansion of their rights after countries signed and recognized crucial international conventions; and an increased...
Insects, from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger
Source: Inter Press Service
Oaxaca :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-22 15:35:20 -0700 | green-news
IPS Articles In her view, This country is ready for mass consumption of insects, but people need education about techniques and ways of marketing them...There are no official measures, said the expert, who has been carrying out research since the...
Nogales, Ariz., wildfire grows, only 15 percent contained
Source: United Press International
Nogales :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-22 15:30:13 -0700 | green-news
A wildfire burning in the Coronado National Forest near Nogales, Ariz., has consumed 6,000 acres and is 15 percent contained, officials said Wednesday. More than 200 personnel are battling the Soldier Basin Fire, east of Nogales International Airport.
Scientists finally identify unique pathogen that caused Irish potato famine
Source: Mail Online UK
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-21 11:29:29 -0700 | green-news
21 May 2013 The unique strain of potato blight which triggered the Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century has been identified by scientists...The specimen, held at Kew Gardens, allowed scientists to decode the genome of a plant pathogen and...
Report: Sunken WWII ships may pollute US waters
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-20 13:59:24 -0700 | green-news
A new government report details 87 shipwrecks that could pollute U.S. waters with oil...The potential for pollution is less than scientists had expected. They estimate that far less oil will leak into the ocean than the BP oil spill of...
Nestle invests USD130 mn in Mexico plant
Source: NewKerala
Toluca :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-20 10:32:47 -0700 | green-news
The project has boosted the plant's productive capacity by 30 percent, making it the world's biggest facility of its kind, Nestle Mexico CEO Marcelo Melchior said during Friday's ceremony. The factory, which covers a 14-hectare area, will supply the Mexican,...
Sea butterflies: Spectacular photographs show beautiful but endangered sea butterflies as they swim ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-20 00:15:00 -0700 | green-news
20 May 2013 We've all been taken aback by the beauty of a butterfly...Karen Osborn, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institute, has captured a series of never-before-recorded photographs of the fascinating creatures, which she collected while scuba diving off...
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano still rumbling
Source: Taiwan News
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-19 10:59:37 -0700 | green-news
The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early Sunday. And the 17,886-foot (5,450-meter) mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks.
Forget pipelines – Canada must prepare for a post-carbon world
Source: The Globe & Mail
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-17 09:38:13 -0700 | green-news
Query Danny Harvey Forget pipelines Canada must prepare for a post-carbon world Danny Harvey The Globe and Mail Last updated Friday, May. The expansion of oil-sands operations and various pipeline proposals to get bitumen to market have incraseingly been topics...
The making of the Hyogo2 disaster prevention treaty
Source: IRIN
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-17 09:00:11 -0700 | green-news
A month after the Indian Ocean tsunami struck in December 2004, affecting millions, 168 countries signed on to a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards...Countries have since begun discussing what a follow-up action plan, the Hyogo...
OECD warns Mexico on oil dependence
Source: United Press International
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-17 04:24:04 -0700 | green-news
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said overhauling the country's energy sector is a top priority for his administration. Reforms under consideration include letting national oil companies partner with their foreign counterparts to open the country to new investments.
'People of corn' protest GMO strain in Mexico
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-16 12:30:06 -0700 | green-news
People of corn' protest GMO strain in Mexico Mexico has 59 strains of native corn. While the country has some GMO corn as well, activists are concerned about expanding its reach. Mexico City Everywhere in Mexico , from the megalopolis...
Mexican Communities Sue Pemex for Environmental Justice
Source: Inter Press Service
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-16 10:41:54 -0700 | green-news
Fed up with oil spills from facilities belonging to Mexico's state oil company Pemex, residents of two communities in the southeastern state of Tabasco are taking the country's largest company to court in a bid for compensation for damage to...
Mount Everest Is Melting
Source: Fox
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-15 06:45:25 -0700 | green-news
How Green Published May 15, 2013 LiveScience Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said Tuesday at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico. Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13...
U.S. reviews gas hydrate potential offshore
Source: United Press International
Mexico City :: Mexico | updated 2013-05-15 03:28:44 -0700 | green-news
Geological Survey, Department of Energy and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management spent 15 days in the Gulf of Mexico conducting seismic surveys of underwater sediment with high gas hydrate concentrations. Brenda Pierce said the cross-agency expedition was a "significant milestone"...
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