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Initiative certainly bizarre to Eduardo Gold is an "inventor" who has brought Peru and put in practice the painting of a glacier, now melted.

The World Bank has given $ 200,000 for this project to work on the Chalon Sombrero Peak at about 4,756 meters above sea level.

Mr. Gold felt that the glacier white paint now been missing for decades, with paints containing ingredients all eco-friendly, to take advantage, increasing the albedo effect, which could reduce the temperature a few degrees, in so to recreate that local micro-climate which existed years ago.

A team of workers has bleached a small area, but is organized to complete the overall project of 70 hectares.

The painters do not use brushes, but pitchers to spray painting made from: lime, egg and industrial water, a mixture known already to colonial times in Peru.

The project has created much discussion in various fields. For some people, such as the Environment Minister, the money spent in this manner does not result in any way solve the climate problem in the area.

believes that there are programs much more interesting enough to take to get concrete results. However, the Ministry

Principal Peruvian climate change, has given the green light to the idea of \u200b\u200bMr. Gold.

We will see if this bizarre technique will produce some positive results.

I remember that in Peru there is a 70 per percent of the world's tropical glaciers, according to a World Bank report, over 22 per cent have melted in the last 30 years.

If you do not will be undertaken for effective programs, aimed at mitigating climate change, within 20 years, the glaciers could disappear altogether, creating huge water supply problems in Peru.

Source: (The Dirt)

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bizarre coffee production at risk

The cultivation of coffee, which is in Africa or South America or other parts of the globe, has always been sensitive to climate (temperature and rainfall), but in 2003 it was found the mass arrival a small insect (borer coffee), which, aided by the warming climate, took office causing major problems for farmers.

The beetle named in Latin America "broca", or "drill", it behaves like a reamer that pierce the berry of the coffee you can put your eggs into and damaged beyond repair.

Each female can lay up to 200 eggs, depending on climatic conditions, the borer can reproduce from 1 to 7 times a year.

The damage is very heavy, and although the coffee does not have the vital importance of the grain, however, affect the business around seventy countries in the world with a market of 90 billion dollars a year.

Climate change has hit the affected areas to cultivation, has led to a rise in temperature that is optimal for the development of the beetle. The increase in the abundance of small invertebrate that has forced a part of Colombian farmers to move their plots, as from research carried out by the "National Coffee Research Center" of Manizales in Colombia, it was found that the increase of 1 ° C, requires a shift in cultivation of 550 meters above sea level. The

borer beetle need an average temperature 20 ° C to survive and reproduce. Experts have found that every time the temperature increases by 0.05 degrees Celsius, the infection of plants coffee increased by 8, 5%.

Who has not moved production altitude tried to keep the temperature in crops, planting a large number of trees capable of generating the shadow.

This solution is not among the fastest but also ensures a reduction from 2 to 4 degrees Celsius on the leaves of the coffee plant.

addition to all these measures we have tried to eliminate the problem by using substantial quantities of pesticides, but unfortunately we did not manage to do is reduce the number of reproductive cycles of the European corn borer.

Source: (Treehugger)

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Fishing open after the tragedy

I sincerely serious doubts on the choice of NOAA (National Atmosperich Oceanic and Administration) agreed with the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the Gulf States to reopen August 12, 2010, commercial fishing and pleasure boats to a size of 5144 miles square, near the terribly affected by the disaster BP oil platform.

since 3 July, the area is was flying over controlled by the United States Coast Guard which ensures that there are no traces of oil at sea.

Among the 153 species of fish caught, including: grouper, snapper, tuna and mahi mahi, the NOAA said that after carrying out stringent chemical analysis, the results confirm that there should be no concern by consumers .

The fishing area is about 115 miles northeast of BP well.

Commissioners appointed by the ministries concerned and experts, say that the importance of fish in the area is of paramount importance for the people until the day of the accident, lived on fishing and farming of fruits sea.

I hope this is not reckless move, the result of political pressure groups and other stakeholders, to economic problems.

The area provides the NOAA closely with the Food and Drug Admistration and the Gulf States, will be constantly monitored to ensure consumers a secure catch.

Source: (The fishs)

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enormous damage to rainforests

Party Greenpeace accuses the Indonesian pulp and paper guidelines to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP).

The paper company is suspected of planning a huge expansion of exploitation of Indonesian forests, have enormous consequences (deforestation).

According to the report carried out by Greenpeace, an internal document of the APA in 2007, highlighting the project (never set aside) to increase production capacity 2.6000000-17.5000000 tonnes per year.

This plan emphasizes the fact that the APA tried to get hold of more than 1 million hectares of plantations to exploit virgin.

In the provinces of Sumatra's Riau and Jambi, the paper company has applied for 900,000 hectares of forests seems to have half is in possession of the powerful company.

addition to Greenpeace also sent in the area of \u200b\u200bTimes journalists who have found that the Indah Kiat mill, owned by the Asia Pulp & Paper, is constantly fed by timber from the rainforests.

There are many accusations that are made by Greenpeace to a string of world-class big companies that do business for years with the APP as: Wal-Mart, Hewlett Packard, Auchan, Carrefour, Tesco, KFC, Kraft, Nestle, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark.

The consequences of this exploitation has led Indonesia to move into third place of the podium certainly not very edifying, that producer of greenhouse gases.

currently appears to be the second largest supplier of palm oil, a component of hundreds of thousands of products, many of which are present in our homes and everyday use. In recent years it has often been considered as an alternative fuel to petrol.

Just read the ingredients of many snack foods and snacks or even the soap you will find it there too!

The great demand for this product has meant that plantations of palm trees are grown in an exaggerated way to the detriment of protected areas, agricultural land and destroying the ecosystem of many protected species such as rhinos, orangutans and Sumatran tiger than to put in serious economic forest communities.

I conclude with a very significant sentence of a Greenpeace activist in the south-east Asia, "Some global brands are pulped the planet."

Source: (Greenpeace)