System developed to extract ocean oil spills using a magnetic method. Oil spills at sea could have a new solution: a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a method to separate water from oil using magnets.
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'Space debris' refers to active or inactive satellites that have been launched or decommissioned from orbit and sunk at sea, as well as old and operational space rockets and other objects resulting from fragmented debris, generated, for example, in explosions. Space debris orbiting the Earth […]
The National Assembly of CONAIE is being held in Baños de Aguasanta (Tungurahua). The following will be discussed: an analysis of the pre-legislative consultation on the Water Law, the 11th Oil Round in the Amazon, and the political and electoral landscape. At the opening of the Assembly, Humberto Cholango, president of CONAIE, addressed me […]
One of the trawlers that will have to abandon this type of fishing starting in December. The National Government is offering alternatives for the industrial fishing sector, which is abandoning trawling as of December 15th. Guillermo Morán Velásquez, Vice Minister of Aquaculture and Fisheries, stated that the National Government, through the Ministry of […]
One of the activists presented Leticia Ortiz with a dossier on Repsol's impact on Yasuní National Park. Photo: Beno Bonilla. During the visit a few days ago for the Spanish-Ecuadorian Business Forum, an event attended by the Prince and Princess of Asturias and several representatives of the oil company Repsol, a group of human rights activists […]
When the idea of transforming Ballenita Park, a space that had been abandoned for nearly 30 years, into a place of recreation and healthy family and community gatherings first emerged in Carolina Bermeo's mind months ago, the road ahead seemed uphill. Carolina, a Colombian with Ecuadorian children who lives in Ballenita, found a way to […]
Image: ACDesign PRESS RELEASE This week (September 17-25), an International Action against the Biological Risks of GMOs is taking place around the world. Guayaquil is joining this global effort; for this reason, activist, agricultural, environmental, and social organizations will participate in a sit-in on Friday the 21st […]
When news broke that several European countries (Belgium, Great Britain, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland and Slovakia) had blocked Denmark's proposal to allow GM crops throughout Europe (1) and that several others (France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Austria, Luxembourg and Bulgaria) had banned the entry of GM maize produced in […]
By: Fausto Valero When the well-known phrase was launched to promote our country using the entire state advertising machinery (both within and outside our borders), many of us thought it would truly be in keeping with its essence: the "love of life" that is innate in Ecuadorians; and to demonstrate the commitment (as a people […]
The US military is responsible for the most atrocious and widespread pollution on the planet. Yet, this information and the supporting documents are virtually never made public. Despite the evidence, the US military's impact on the environment is not a topic addressed by environmental organizations; nor was it the focus […]
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