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La Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón continuará con el plan de dragados de la bahía al considerar que esos trabajos no dañan la playa de San Lorenzo y que sus efectos son, según las previsiones de los informes elaborados para el estudio de impacto ambiental, los esperados. Los responsables del Puerto explican las erosiones detectadas en San Lorenzo, notables y visibles a finales de enero de este año, cuando afloraron rocas en algunos tramos del arenal, con la «excepcionalidad» de los últimos períodos invernales. Díaz Rato indica a Medio Ambiente que adjunta una carta remitida por el Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad de Cantabria, cuyas conclusiones «son claras acerca de la fiabilidad de los estudios previos, confirmando que la respuesta y la evolución de la playa se han producido conforme a los mismos». Personal del citado instituto constituyó el equipo redactor que hizo los estudios previos sobre los posibles efectos de esos dragados en el arenal de San Lorenzo, además de analizar la dinámica litoral en el entorno de la obra.
Date: 28/06/2010
Source: La Nueva España
The government and university researchers confirmed Tuesday that plumes of dispersed oil were spreading far below the ocean surface from the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, raising fresh concern about the potential impact of the spill on sea life. The tests, the first detailed chemical analyses of water from the deep sea, show that some of the most toxic components of the oil are not necessarily rising to the surface where they can evaporate, as would be expected in a shallow oil leak. Instead, they are drifting through deep water in plumes or layers that stretch as far as 50 miles from the leaking well. As a rule, the toxic compounds are present at exceedingly low concentrations, the tests found, as would be expected given that they are being diluted in an immense volume of seawater.
Date: 08/06/2010
Source: The New York Times
Alrededor de las 10.30 horas de hoy van a colisionar en el Abra de El Sardinero el petrolero 'Urania Mella', que se dirige hacia el puerto de Santander, y el buque ro-ro 'Gran Canaria Car', que salía de la bahía. Este es el supuesto de partida del ejercicio de salvamento y lucha contra la contaminación que se va a realizar hoy y mañana en aguas de Santander, en el que los efectivos españoles contarán con al apoyo y cooperación de medios franceses y de la Agencia Europea de Seguridad Marítima (EMSA). Dado que en la colisión se producen varios heridos en ambos buques y se rompe uno de los tanques del petrolero, lo que propicia un incendio y el vertido de crudo, que llegará a las playas, las operaciones harán necesaria la participación durante dos días de una veintena de medios marítimos y aéreos y de alrededor de 400 efectivos para rescatar heridos, reducir el fuego, remolcar los buques y combatir la contaminación. Se trata del mayor ejercicio por número de participantes y duración que se ha realizado nunca en aguas de Santander. Un simulacro que puede resultar espectacular estos dos días y que fue presentado ayer por parte del delegado del Gobierno, Agustín Ibáñez, junto a la directora general de Marina Mercante María Isabel Durántez.
Date: 28/05/2010
Source: El Diario Montañes
The world's oceans are warming up and the rise is both significant and real, according to one of the most comprehensive studies into marine temperature data gathered over the past two decades. Measuring the temperature of the oceans has not been easy, but the scientists behind the latest study believe there is now incontrovertible evidence to show that the top few hundred metres of the sea are warming – and that this temperature rise is consistent with man-made climate change. The findings are important because ocean temperatures are seen as a more reliable and convincing signal of global warming than land-based measurements, which are prone to huge variability. This is due to the fluctuating influences of the weather and the spread of cities, which can artificially increase local terrestrial temperatures by the urban "heat island" effect.
Date: 26/05/2010
Source: The Independent
Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet? Nowhere has this shift in public opinion been more striking than in Britain, where climate change was until this year such a popular priority that in 2008 Parliament enshrined targets for emissions cuts as national law. But since then, the country has evolved into a home base for a thriving group of climate skeptics who have dominated news reports in recent months, apparently convincing many that the threat of warming is vastly exaggerated. A survey in February by the BBC found that only 26 percent of Britons believed that “climate change is happening and is now established as largely manmade,” down from 41 percent in November 2009. A poll conducted for the German magazine Der Spiegel found that 42 percent of Germans feared global warming, down from 62 percent four years earlier.
Date: 25/05/2010
Source: The New York Times