Ecuador

While as humanity we increasingly feel the consequences and impacts of climate change in our daily lives, we have been discussing for weeks the book by General Vannacci, best-selling in Italy, which defines the climate crisis is a "bogeyman" and claims that the tons of CO2 that we emit are a good "because they allow us to be born in a hospital". All this in the same weeks in which Copernicus, the European climate change service, he said that in 2023 we had the hottest summer on record.Heat waves, floods and fires have not abandoned Europe and North America.In the Alps, freezing point was reached at 5,328 meters (and it is another negative record).The storm that hit eastern Libya is news in recent days. There is currently talk of over 5 thousand deaths.Phenomena of this type are intensifying as the planet warms. The climate crisis is getting worse and not newsworthy And while it's still there who tries to insinuate doubts And question the anthropic origin of c...

More than 30% of Ecuador's current total surface area has been impacted by human activity, and much of this loss has come at the expense of the Amazon rainforest, this is the summary of a long relationship produced by the Ecuadorian environmental NGOs EcoCiencia and MapBiomas Ecuador together with other independent researchers.The research also records the reduction of glaciers and changes in land cover triggered by the expansion of capitalist activities such as agriculture, forestry, mining and oil extraction that have affected the country from the coast to the Andes.The researchers analyzed and compared satellite images taken between 1985 and 2022, finding that Ecuador lost 1.16 million hectares of natural land cover during this period.To understand the order of magnitude, it is an area slightly larger than the entire Abruzzo region, a very large surface area for a country like Ecuador, which is smaller than Italy. In the Ecuadorian Amazon, themining activity – especially...

In Ecuador, almost 60% of the population set a world precedent by choosing in a referendum to block oil exploitation from one of its most important deposits, located in the Yasuní National Park, the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon.The result of the referendum - which took place yesterday in parallel with the presidential elections, which will result in a run-off between the candidates Luisa González and Daniel Noboa - represents a sensational victory for the environmentalist coalition Yasunidos, which promoted the consultation, and all the indigenous movement against the excessive power of the oil companies. The referendum had been called for ask to the 13.45 million Ecuadorian voters if they wanted the exploitation of oil in the Yasuní, which has been underway for some years, whether to continue or not.The question read:“Do you agree that the Ecuadorian government keeps the ITT crude, known as block 43, underground indefinitely?”.An issue that has...