A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador on the evening of Saturday the 16th of April. According to news agency AFP, the death toll has risen to 272 and over 2,000 people have been injured. Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas said the damage is enormous and declared a state of emergency in the six hardest-hit provinces: Manabi, Esmeraldas,
The history of energy in Brazil: “the oil is ours” Brazil drilled its first oil well in 1897 in Bofete City and in 1953 the oil and gas giant Petrobras was founded under the slogan “o petróleo é nosso” (the oil is ours). Over the years, Brazil diversified its energy matrix. Starting from the 1940s
The Brazilian congressional commission has backed impeaching President Dilma Rousseff, with 38 votes to 27. This is a crucial week for the country and the government: the impeachment proposal will now be taken to the full session of the lower house to decide – by Sunday and with a two-third majority – if the head
La costruzione di nuovi impianti basati su fonti rinnovabili ha consentito di aumentare dell‘8,3 per cento la capacità produttiva in un solo anno.
The Upsala Glacier is Argentina’s second largest. Here, according to Fabiano Ventura and his team, explorer and priest Alberto Maria De Agostini took a series of seven pictures. On the Trails of the Glaciers’ new expedition was in Los Glaciares National Park, from the 2nd to the 10th of March, in order to “photograph” global warming
A huge archive of documents, nicknamed the Panama Papers and leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, allowed discovering how the world uses tax havens. 107 international newspapers carried out a 9-month investigation on 11.5 million dossiers filed in the law firm founded in 1977 by German Jurgen Mossack and Panamanian Ramon Fonseca, specialists of offshore
Another environmental activist has been killed in Honduras. After the murder of Berta Cáceres, leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) shot dead on 3 March, another COPINH member has been killed: Nelson García, 38. According to COPINH, García, father of five, was killed on 15 March by Honduran
One child has already died due to mercury poisoning, which has put the safety of up to 80% of the indigenous Nahua tribe, who live in the Peruvian Amazon, in jeopardy. The circumstances as to why the majority of the community presents symptoms of intoxication caused by the substance remain unclear. Its high levels in
Joao Pereira de Souza ha salvato questo pinguino nel 2011. Da quel momento Dindim torna ogni anno a passare l’estate dal pescatore. Cosa dimostra questa storia?
L’attivista messicano Gustavo Castro Soto, testimone del delitto, è stato fermato all’aeroporto mente cercava di tornare in Messico. E accusa la polizia di aver alterato la scena del crimine.
