This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
Rescuers are still trying to find survivors reported missing after the January 25, 1999, earthquake. Having virtually given up hope of finding survivors, rescuers have been forced to follow the stench of death to locate the bodies. "From now on, our mission is to recover corpses,' said a Venezuelan rescuer …
armenia , the capital of Quindio province, about 300 kilometres west of the Colombian capital Bogota. On January 25, 1999, at 1:20 pm, the earth shook. The Richter scale said 6.0. At least 20 towns and villages in five provinces were badly hit, with Armenia bearing the brunt. The epicentre …
The Colombian government has called upon the European Union to help drought-affected farmers in the country. The government has sought us $2.5 million aid in this regard. The damaging effect of the warm Pacific current, El Ni
illegal cultivation of poppy and coca for opium and cocaine has brought about some serious environmental changes in the mountains of San Jorge De Las Hermosas in central Columbia. The damage caused by the nefarious activities is not restricted to the social and political ethos. The climate of region has …
around 5,000 members of the U'Wa tribe have threatened to commit suicide if an oil company from the us does not abandon its plans to drill for oil on their ancestral land. The tribe has already lost legal claim to the 162,000 hectares drilling site, which is located just outside …
Volcanic eruptions normally release molten lava, water vapour and hot gases. But the Galeras volcano in Colombia is one with a difference. It spits out gold dissolved in its dense mix of gases; this gold melts out as magma from crustal rocks hundreds of miles beneath the surface. Fraser Goff, …
The government has turned to forcible spraying of defoliant chemicals on coca plants across the country in an attempt to give strength to its anti-drug policy. This has led to strong protests from the Columbian farmers who have tried various methods like blocking the roads to the airstrips in Putumayo, …
Leftist guerrillas are playing havoc with Colombia's oil pipelines. A recent announcement made by government authorities says that during the last 9 years, guerrilla forces have blown up Colombia's main pipeline 346 times, spilling slightly more than 1.2 million barrels of crude oil -- nearly 5 times the amount spilled …
Good news for those down with malaria. Manuel Patarroyo, a biochemist from Colombia, claims that he is about to develop a vaccine against the disease, one of the oldest scourges of mankind. The vaccine is being tested in tropical countries like Tanzania and Thailand. Reports from Tanzania indicate that Patarroyo's …
IN WHAT he called "Colombia's gift to the world", immunologist Manuel Patarroyo has handed over all rights to his synthetic malaria vaccine to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a newsletter of the organisation says. The first scientifically accepted field study of the vaccine, reported in March 1993 in the British …
WHILE burning sugarcane leaves makes harvesting the stalks easier, the practice is damaging to the environment. So Cinecana, the Colombian sugarcane industry's research arm, has come up with a way to help farmers harvest their cane in an environment-friendly manner. Says Cinecana director James Cock, they recommend harvesting the cane …
The 6th International conference on Energy and Sustainability will be reconvened at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin. The University is named in honour of the South American Liberator Simon Bolivar.The meeting follows the success of previous conferences started in the New Forest, UK, home of the Wessex Institute (2007); …
