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Showing posts with label Environment Home International. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Merkel says goodbye to the nuclear and heralds a revolution in renewable

Fukushima and more than 30 years of citizens' movement against nuclear have forced the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to take to the mountain: a maximum of eleven years to 2022, Germany will maintain its power without nuclear power industry and population, the first Europe. The move, expected but officially announced yesterday, is fraught with consequences for the continent.

If Germany can, other smaller European neighbors more so. Described as "irreversible", the decision is a huge boost industrial and research for renewable energy, together with gas and other technologies gradually occupy the hole, that 23% of electricity generation today is for nuclear in the country .

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

New Zealand's remote Kermadec Islands marine reveal their secrets

Otoya dew. Sydney (Australia) .- The remote Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, considered one of the last wild frontiers of the planet, hiding a rich marine biodiversity through a mix of temperate and tropical waters also unique in the world. To the archipelago of thirteen volcanic islands, of nearly 7,500 square kilometers and located a thousand miles northeast of the mainland, recently moved a group of local and Australian scientists to find new fauna and flora.