The 5 worst environmental disasters in the Worls

Mexico and other countries have confronted environmental disaster caused by the oil spill, the explosion of nuclear plants and disposal of chemical materials.

The 5 worst environmental disasters in the Worls

Persian Gulf, 1991: The war between Iraq and the United States caused a major ecological disaster of the twentieth century due to burning oil wells causing black rain that destroyed vegetation and polluted water by the oil spill.

Ukraine, 1986: The explosion in a reactor of a nuclear plant resulted in a radioactive cloud over the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Radiation finished with four square kilometers of vegetation and life of the Pripyat river.

India, 1984: A leak of 42 tons of methyl isocyanate that became toxic gases caused one of the worst disasters in memory. About 20 thousand people and thousands of head of livestock and pets died from inhaling the pollutants.

Mexico, 1979: The oil well Ixtoc I, belonging to Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), is out of control and exploded causing a spill of 560 million gallons of oil into the Bay of Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen in the Gulf of Mexico.

Italy, 1976: An explosion at a manufacturer of perfumes and cosmetics, instantly killing 193 people and air pollution in 11 communities around the cloud of dioxin that is presented and the ecological disaster.

Japan stopped whaling in Antarctica by environmentalists

Japan has temporarily suspended its annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters because of the harassment of environmental organizations who rely on this controversial practice is now closer to an end.
A spokesman for Japan's Fisheries Agency announced Wednesday that the Nisshin Maru whaling ship crippled their catches on 10 for safety, to the aggressive practices of the conservation group Sea Shepherd, and evaluate what decision to make now and Japan stopped whaling..
The environmental organization Greenpeace was assumed that the return will be decided ahead of Japan's whaling, which processes the catches of three other boats with a total crew of 180 men, fishing with spears to the huge cetaceans.

Japan stopped whaling

The Japanese whaling season, which was to last until March, was suspended when the Nisshin Maru was in an area near Chilean territorial waters, according to the local agency Kyodo and Japan stopped whaling.
Whaling has been reported to Tokyo constant criticism throughout the world and even a complaint from Australia to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to hide, under assumptions scientific, purely commercial motivations and Japan stopped whaling..

In recent years, catches of the Nisshin Maru have been complicated by the sabotage of American Sea Shepherd in the cold Antarctic waters, with practices such as collision, release of corrosive acids or chains of the whaling activists, which have caused irritation in Japan .

Hunting whale

Japan, Iceland and Norway are the only countries that continue whaling, a practice that Tokyo is defended as an ancient cultural tradition, born on the coast of Taiji, Wakayama, who also holds a controversial hunting of dolphins and Japan stopped whaling..
The spokesman Minister of Japan, Yukio Edan, today deplored the stonewalling against the issuing "scientific" and said Japan will ask other nations to take action against him.

Global warming increases the risk of flooding

Scientists have long warned that the global temperature increase leads to changes in precipitation patterns. The basis of the argument is simple: more power means more heat in the atmosphere and it is therefore more water vapor and more activity in the system.
Experts say it is difficult to predict exactly how rainfall will change in every corner of the world, but they know that, because of the greater amount of energy in the atmosphere will become more common extreme events such as storms, hurricanes and strong temporary and the Climate change and the global warming.

Indeed, two articles recently published in the journal Nature corroborate these predictions. The authors argue that human emissions of greenhouse gases have substantially increased the likelihood of heavy rainfall and flood risk.

Climate change and the global warming

Francis Zwiers and colleagues at the Division of Climate Research Division of Toronto (Canada), have managed actual rainfall data recorded over half a century in the Northern Hemisphere to conclude that torrential downpours have more than doubled.

The researchers used the records of rainfall made by 6,000 different meteorological stations between 1951 and 1999 across the northern hemisphere. The ground covered includes North America and much of Eurasia to India. Data came from maximum rainfall in a single day each year and also recorded the maximum rainfall for a period of five days each year that are, according to them, that best reflect what is a torrential downpour Climate change and the global warming.

Global Warming

After implementing new computer systems for calculating all these databases, the researchers found that violent rainfall events have increased by two-thirds of the northern hemisphere in recent decades. In particular, records of daily maximum has increased by 65% of the stations and the maximum of five days in 61% of them.

Brazil introduced its new green jersey

The renewed coat with a green band unpublished breast height, was manufactured by recycling plastic drink bottles. Will be used for the first time on 9 February to France.According to marketing director of Nike, Thiago Pinto, the band-green in the yellow jersey holder, yellow and blue shirt in the alternative, was conceived as a "shield" of the players and the Ecology jersay.
"The band alludes to our ancestors, who painted a band on the body before every battle as a form of protection," said the executive of the sportswear company that is among the sponsors of the Brazilian team.
The other novelty is not visible to the public: on the inside, the coat has the shape of a canary, referring to the Brazilian teams that won titles in Sweden's World Cup Chile 1958 and 1962 and were known as "Canarinhas and the Ecology jersay."

The Ecology jersay

The authorized representative of Nike said the clothing brand of "Scratch" was produced by recycling plastic drink bottles, resulting in a lighter fabric than the one used before.

The presentation of the new Brazil shirt was made at the informal on the premises of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Niteroi, near Rio de Janeiro, and without the presence of the coach, Mano Menezes, who must have presided the ceremony and the Ecology jersay.

However, according to the DT's Pinto "Scratch" no weather problems could return from Peru, where matches are watching South American U-20.