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A consortium of environmental scientists has expressed strong concern about the impact of a controversial Central American canal across Nicaragua.
The path of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will cut through Lake Cocibolca (aka Lake Nicaragua), Central America's main freshwater reservoir and the largest tropical freshwater lake of the Americas; this plan will force the relocation of indigenous populations and impact a fragile ecosystem, including species at risk of extinction, according to Rice University environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and other members of the consortium.
Alvarez is co-corresponding author of an article that includes 21 co-authors from 18 institutions in the United States and Central and South America who gathered at a multidisciplinary international workshop in Managua, Nicaragua, last November to discuss the project. The paper, titled "Scientists Raise Alarms About Fast Tracking of Transoceanic Canal Through Nicaragua," was published this week by the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology.
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-scientists-nicaragua-canal.html
[Abstract]: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b00215
[Source]: http://news.rice.edu/2015/03/04/scientists-question-rush-to-build-canal-2/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06 2015, @03:12PM
after the Shopping Mall impact study.
Don't worry, parking lots will save our economy, not nature.
We must consume this planet entire.
Concern for anything beautiful on this planet is a waste of time.
Welcome to your Blade Runner future.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday March 06 2015, @03:51PM
In Blade Runner the world was largely void of people. Only a dozen people living on an entire city block. They crowded together for the appearance of crowds. At least, that's what i remember.
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