A world without fish

Not long ago we have been present at the polemic if there was necessary the inclusion of the red tuna in the list of protected species QUOTE. ”The European Union defends, to prohibit the international trade of the red tuna, a species that European ships catch for the most part to export later up to 80 % of the apprehensions Japan.

“ QUOTE the initials are in English “The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora” (Convention on the International trade of Species Threatened with Fauna and Flora Silvestres).

It is a question of an international agreement between government s, written like the result of the resolution adopted in 1973 in a meeting of the members of the “World Union for the Environmental protection” (World Conservation Union) (IUCN). His intention is of making sure that the international trade of specimens of animals and wild plants should not threaten his survival in his natural way. The agreements are several protection grades, and they cover to more than 30.000 species of animals and plants.

None of the species protected by QUOTE it has become extinct as a consequence of his commerce, since the Agreement came into force in 1975.”

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Oceana has just done públcia a note that I reproduce next.

“ Oceana claims that YOU QUOTE protect 40 marine species, including the prohibition of the international trade of the red tuna under the Appendix I and that regulates the commerce of 8 species of shark and 31 of red corals and roses by means of the Appendix II. A team of scientists and experts of the international organization of marine conservation is from yesterday in Doha (Qatar). There they are present at the 15th Conference of the Parts of CITES (Convention on the international trade of threatened species), which chases to avoid the species extinction as a result of the international trade.

The Atlantic red tuna I of CITES has been proposed for his inclusion in the Appendix because the illegal fishing and the international trade are pushing it to the collapse. The red tunas are between the most valuable fish of the world and his meat is used for the sushi and the sashimi. In the last years, almost all the apprehensions declared in the Mediterranean have been exported to Japan and the stock of western Atlantic red tuna has turned out to be reduced in more than 82 %. Oceana and MarViva demand his protection under the Appendix I, which prohibits the international trade of species that are almost threatened with extinction.

Eight sharks species II of CITES have been proposed for the Appendix, what would demand permissions of exportation. The international demand of products of shark, particularly fins, is taking many populations at the edge of the extinction. For this reason, Oceana supports the inclusion of the oceanic braggart and the horned common one, as well as of “similar species” – shark sand-dealer, shark piece, horned giant and horned cross – in addition to the cailón and the spiny dogfish.

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Also for the Appendix II, the European Union and the United States have proposed 31 species of red corals and roses. These corals are exploited intensively to meet the international demand of jewelry shop and other products, and his elimination stops to other species without food or refuge. From the 80s of last century, the landings have diminished more than 60-80 % and the polyps populations have fallen down concerning 80-90 %. Oceana supports his inclusion in the Appendix II of CITES, necessary to assure the future of these species and the marine habitats that they shape.”

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I freeze in the sea. Crioesfera

The ice covers about 28 millions of Km2, principally in the Oceans the Arctic and in the Antarctic. It plays a fundamental role in the regulation of the climate and escrítico for multitude of animals. The glaciers and the badges of ice cover approximately 10 % of the surface of the Earth. Except Australia all the continents are partially covered by ice. In spite of his magnitude and importance, it is difficult to visit and to study these frozen spaces and often the scientists study them across photos taken from the space.

The badge Wilkins of the Antarctic peninsula broke in February, 2008. In the previous image taken the satellite of Taiwan Formosat-2, big ice pieces can be seen floating. In the following image of the satellite of the NASA Terra it offers a wider image.

On the coast North-East of Greenland the marine currents produce images as that one sees next. It was taken in 2006 by the team MODIS in satellite of the NASA Terra

The Okhotsk sea is between Siberia and the Peninsula of Kamchatka. In the winter it is covered of ice almost totalmentee. It was taken in 2007 by the team MODIS in satellite of the NASA Terra. The following one was taken in 2009 by the team ASTER in satellite of the NASA Terra.

The glaciers Hampton and They Reside contribute ice to the Shokalsky bay in the island Alexander in this image taken as 2009 the satellite USGS-NASA.

This image of the crack in the glacier of Pine Island in the rim of the layer of ice placed to the west of the Antarctic was captured by ASTER in the satellite Terra of the NASA. It predicted that a big glacier would become detached in 18 months. This happened in Noviemvre of 2001 how it is verified in the sequence. According to some models (Proceedings of the Royal Society A) the water quantity that that ecnuentra in the layer of ice of the Antarctic West might raise the sea level in more than three meters in case of melting.

The image that it continues is an ice in the Arctic, where normally he persists during the whole year and is an important factor in the global climate. Imñagen captured by the satellite NASA-USGS Landsat-7 in June, 2001.

The layer of ice ayles in the Island Ellesmere in the Canadian Arctic broke of the island in 2005. The image shows the area in 2006. A mosáico of pieces of ice covers the surface. Next is the image taken in 2002.

The image that continues sample the beginning of the break of the big iceberg B-22, being liberated of the language of ice Thwaites in the Amundsen sea in the West of the Antarctic in March, 2002. B-22 is the 80 kilometers long and 61 wide one. Next one sees as it is moving two weeks later.

The giant iceberg B-10 was measuring 1,000 square thousands and had a quarter of mile of thickness when Antarctic became detached at the end of the eighties of the glacier. It broke in two in 1995. What appears is so big as the state of Rhode Island (USA) in 1999.

This image of the sea of Labrador combines different sizes of pieces of ice getting rid of the coast of Newfoundland. It took in April, 2003 from the International Space station

The Gulf of the St Lawrence in the East of Canada, normally is covered of ice, but in this image of April, 2008, the ice has begun to melt creating images much lllamativas of the currents in the sea.

Of this article of Wired Science I have taken the hanging pictures and even there is more.

Do they remember of the iceberg of 140 square kilometers that enfilaba towards the Australian coasts?. The block of ice, 19 kilometers long and 8 kilometers wide, is in these moments to approximately 1.700 kilometers of the oriental coast of Australia.

Most of experts usually attribute these events to the climate change, because the increase of the temperature of the sea has accelerated the process of fragmentation of the poles.

Nevertheless, others defend that in the presence of icebergs increasingly far from the polar masses they include also exogenous factors to the global warming like the currents or the fact of being constituted by snow consolidated instead of salt water.

Climate change?

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17 meters giant fish, in alive

It is not the biggest animal of the world but certainly it is very long. “A group of scientists has sighted for the first time in his natural environment a Regalecidae or fish rowed, an extraordinary and slippery fish that can go so far as to measure 17 meters - he is one of the longest of the world - provided with a prominent back fin that gives him an unusual form of snake.”

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“The regalecidos or fish I row or fish saber (family Regalecidae) are a group of two genres of lampriformes of marine habitat, which can be in all the moderate and tropical regions of the balloon. A fish rowed, called científicamente Regalecus glesne is never the longest sighted bony fish, reaching 17 m long.”

“The fish I row they are thin and smoothed. They have small and protuberant mouths, without visible teeth; the body frees this one from scales, having in his place a covering of guanina of silver color and viscous consistency. The back fin is red or pink, of big size, being born just on the eyes and reaching the tail. It goes so far as to have 400 thorns, of which the first dozen is lengthened, forming a distinctive and showy speckled comb of red. The pelvic fins have also similar adornments; the pectoral ones scarcely present, and the anal distinctly limited or absent and caudal one completely. The form of the pelvic fins, which remember oars, is probably the origin of his name.”

Seeing the images it would not be strange that it was the origin of the myths of marine monsters that the ancient sailors were in charge of dispersing all over the world.

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Climate change, IPCC. What is happening?

The last informations about the scientific errors of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts about the Climate change (IPCC in his initials in English) has caused a big discomfort in the British Government.Teme that the conservative groups who deny the influence of the human being in the climate change use it already to hinder an international agreement of for himself difficultly to reach.

Due to the current polemic concerning the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change of the UNO (IPCC), the magazine Nature gathered recently in an article the opinion of five experts who value the future of the organization. The authors recommend changes in the IPCC to recover his lost credibility. This flood lacking in confidence owes to the errors detected in the last report of the organism, as well as to the scandal of the scientists' e-mails that were published and used against the proper experts.

Recently there were publishing information about the possible impact of the increase of the temperature in more than three degrees centigrade by the middle of century that might produce the decrease of the productive capacity of the cultivable grounds that might cause a food catastrophe between more than 3.000 million persons who will live in the outskirts of the equator of the planet, according to the information gathered in a special one of the magazine Science (February 12, 2010). Without being still provided with the possible adverse effects of a more warm climate, the growth of the world population in more than 30 % before 2050 represents a notable challenge that would force to duplicate the grain production.

Nevertheless, the present winter is proving to be especially raw largely of the north hemisphere and especially in Europe, but, although this takes us to doubt it, the warming keeps on advancing to planetary scale.

A new analysis of the global temperature in surface realized by scientists of the NASA has thought that last year 2009 has tied with others like the second most warm from 1880, slightly more than one century. In case of the south hemisphere, it has been the most warm since records exist.

The period January, 2000 was to December, 2009 the decade more cálid to never registered. Looking until 1880, when the modern scientific instrumentation begun to be used, a clear tendency to the warming is present, although a certain leveling out took place between the decades of 1940 and 1970. But in last three decades, the records of temperatures taken the GISS it shows a tendency to the increase of 0, 2 degrees centigrade per decade. In whole, the average of global temperature has risen in 1,5 grades from 1880.

It is obvious that the man uses to the planet in his benefit (some more than others) but we should appear all that can last this way of using it and if there is way of changing our attitude.

Who is interested in that as in, Copenhagen or in Seville, there is not I agree on the actions to develop in this topic and in that increases the confusion and the absence of credibility?

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Weekend with “Perfect thunderstorm”. Ciclogénesis … “plosive“

Last January 26, 2009 a storm produced to itself with winds dede 150 kilometers winds for hour and blasts of up to 200 kilometers per hour. It was an impressive storm. This weekend might take place a very similar situation

The Headquarter of Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Department of the Interior they have activated the alert maxim for this weekend before the very strong winds with hurricane-force gusts that might reach even 160 km/h and storm in the sea. This is what has happened in calling the ‘perfect thunderstorm’ and, in technical, terms ‘”ciclogénesis plosive’”.

L to ciclogénesis plosive is “a slightly habitual meteorological phenomenon, which grows with extraordinary rapidity and which there raises the fury of the wind and of the sea. The experts call it ciclogénesis explosive, although also he is met like ‘The perfect Thunderstorm’. It is a meteorological phenomenon that takes place on having shocked a mass of warm air, with other one of cold air. The meeting of the different masses of air, it develops quickly a deep storm in a very short period, giving place to very intense winds and strong rains. The effects of a Ciclogenesis Explosiva can be very devastating and similar to those of a tropical cyclone.”

“The thunderstorm, also called a Cyclone of Half a Latitude, begins in a front parked between two masses of warm and cold air. These two air masses will move in opposite directions, what a necessary horizontal cizalladura creates so that the instability takes place. The cyclonic flow begins about the mentally disturbed section of the stationary front.”

“This atmospheric phenomenon already had a winter precedent in the Cantabrico: on December 27, 1999. That date wind gusts measured themselves in Cantabria to ‘peaks‘ of up to 172 kilometers per hour. A few characteristics similar to those of the storm of December 27, 1999, which came to Cantabria with a pressure of 972 millibars and gusts of 172 km/h measurements in Major End. The excellent precedent would be the surada that swooped down on February 16, 1941 on Santander, day of the frightening fire. It is anticipated that the winds went on from 180 kilometers per hour, but the hurricane rendered useless the measurement devices. In the speed 'ranking' of the wind, to these records 161 km / h would happen measured on October 3, 2006, or 140 km/h of March 8, 2007.”

Soon we will know if the predictions are fulfilled.

Earthquake in Chile 8,8 and in Japan 7,3

Not long ago Haiti we surprised with the violence of the earthquake that Port-au-Prince took place cercade. Today, “an earthquake of 8,8 grade s of the Richter scale has shaken today the Chilean region of Bio Bio, approximately 300 kilometers to the south of Santiago, according to the last report of the Geologic Institute of the United States (USGS). The American institute has given like magnitude this terrremoto 8,8 on the Richter scale“. Information updated here.

“The earthquake, of a minute of duration, could feel in the capital, which remained in the dark, as Efe could state. Also, the telephone communications remained discontinuous largely of Santiago de Chile, as informs Reuters.”

“Nevertheless, the USGS pointed out that the epicenter of the quake was located in the sea, in Maule, to 59,4 kilometers deep, by what expressed a tsunami alert for this country and Peru, as well as another alert “in alertness grade” for Ecuador.

“The Center of Notices of the Pacific Ocean of the USA extended today the tsunami alert in alertness grade for Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and the Antarctica, in addition to Ecuador, included initially, after the earthquake of 8,8 grades on the Richter scale registered in Chile.”

“The tsunami alert is supported for Chile and Peru, the countries that at first might NOAA turns more affected by the giant wave, according to the last bulletin of the Center of Warning of Tsunami for the Pacific Ocean, of the National government of Ambience and Oceans (for his acronym in English).”

“The observation of the sea level indicates that the tsunami has been generated. It can be more destructive on the coasts near to the epicenter of the earthquake and it might be also a threat for more distant coasts”, he explains himself on the web page of the NOAA.”

“ TO TSUNAMI ADVISORY CONTINUE IN EFFECT FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII.

AN EARTHQUAKE IS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS ORIGIN STEAL - 0834 PM HST 26 FEB 2010 COORDINATES - 36.1 SOUTH 72.6 WEST LOCATION - NEAR COAST CENTRAL OF CHILE MAGNITUDE - 8.8 MOMENT MAGNITUDE - 8.4 RICHTER (MS) MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON STEALS AMPL PER-------------------------------------------------------CAULDRON CL 27.1S 70.8W 0843Z 0.45M / 1.5FT 20MIN ANTOFAGASTA CL 23.2S 70.4W 0832Z 0.40M / 1.3FT 58MIN TALCAHUANO CL 36.7S 73.4W 0653Z 2.34M / 7.7FT 88MIN COQUIMBO CL 30.0S 71.3W 0852Z 1.32M / 4.3FT 30MIN CORRAL CL 39.9S 73.4W 0739Z 0.90M / 2.9FT 16MIN SAN FELIX CL 26.3S 80.1W 0815Z 0.53M / 1.7FT 08MIN VALPARAISO CL 33.0S 71.6W 0708Z 1.29M / 4.2FT 20MIN LAT - LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH) LON - LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST) STEALS - STEALS OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH STEALS) AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE NORMAL TO IS LEVEL. IT IS... NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT. VALUE PLOW GIVEN IN BOTH METERS (M) AND FEET (FT). PER - PERIOD OF STEALS IN MINUTES (MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT. EVALUATION THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER IS ISSUED AN REGIONAL EXPANDING TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH FOR PARTS OF THE PACIFIC LOCATED CLOSER TO THE EARTHQUAKE. AN EVALUATION OF THE PACIFIC WIDE TSUNAMI THREAT IS UNDERWAY AND THERE IS TO POSSIBILITY THAT HAWAII COULD BE ELEVATED TO TO WATCH OR WARNING STATUS."

“According to information of the emergency Office, which were quoted by the issuing Cooperative Radio, at the moment there are at least 100 deaths as a result of the earthquake. With posteriority two replies of minor intensity have registered.”

“The electrical service and the communications are cut in the metropolitan region and in that of Valparaiso and minor internal destructions have registered in buildings.”

“In the scale Mercalli, which measures the intensity, the earthquake has reached 8 grades in the metropolitan region, from 5 to 6 in the region of Valparaiso, from 4 to 5 in that of the Lagos, and of Coquimbo from 3 to 4.”

“The first informations indicate that the earthquake could feel along Chile, from the region of Antofagasta up to The Lagos.”

“The earthquake has allowed to feel in several provinces of the Argentine and enclosed center, according to local media, in some areas of Buenos Aires.”

“Yesterday an earthquake of 7,3 grades of magnitude has shaken the south of Japan, according to the Geologic Service of the United States.”

“The quake happened to the 5.30 of the got in ahead Japanese hour (21.30 spanish time), to 84 kilometers of Naha, the Japanese island more to the south of Okinawa.”

“The most serious earthquake happened in Japan in the recent years registered in Kobe (west of the country) on January 17, 1995, with a magnitude of 7,3 grades in the open Richter scale, and caused more than 6.000 dead persons.”

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Let's not forget Haiti.

Earthquake in Chile. Hundreds of dead persons.

“The strong earthquake 8,8 intensity grades on the Richter scale, which has shaken with violence the central and south area of the country and has provoked at least 800 dead persons, according to official numbers. There are 15 missing persons and tens injured men. The earthquake also has left numerous scenes of destructions of highways and buildings, swells, glass breaks, cracks in ways, falls of posts and courts of the electric power and of the communications. Official sources have coded in at least way million the housings destroyed by the quake and in more than one million and a half the damaged ones, although the works of evaluation of the damages might it was prolonging up to two more weeks. Information updated here.”

“The Center of Alerts of Tsunami in the American Pacific Ocean (PTWC, in his initials in English) it has withdrawn this dawn (spanish time) the alert for tsunami that had delivered a judgment hours earlier for the American archipelago of Hawaii, on having verified that the waves that had come up to this moment to the islands were minor than the due thing and in a frequency that was indicating the entire absence of danger of tidal wave. The waves did not go on from the meter of height, very far from two meters and a half with which one had put in alert the population, evacuated in the first hour to high areas of the archipelago.”

“ A 15 meters wave flogged to the Chilean island Robinson Crusoe, one of the three that form the archipelago Juan Fernández located to approximately 670 kilometers of the coast of Valparaiso. The victims' first inventory in the island points out that there are at least five dead persons and 11 missing persons. For precaution, the navy has alerted the population so that it was evicting the riverside area of Isla de Pascua, placed to 3.762 kilometers of continental Chile. In the Clever Coquimbo beach, to the north of Santiago, the sea has advanced more than 80 meters.”

“The authorities North Americans have raised the alert for the tsunami (consequence of the earthquake of Chile), which covers the coasts of the Pacific Ocean without leaving notable damages to his step. Japan for his part, has reduced his alert to a “warning of tsunami”, which refers to waves of about 2 meters, as has pointed out the chain of Japanese television NHK.”

“ It has been between 50 and 100 times more intense than the earthquake that it destroyed Haiti in last January, and in the seismic history of Chile it is the third most intense, as the sismólogos have calculated. The affected stripe of the continental badge in which Chile is is of approximately 350 kilometers, between the spa of Pichilemu and the Gulf of Arauco.”

“Until now at least 25 replies have registered with intensity superior to 5 grades Richter, according to the Geologic Service of the United States.”

“The yesterday earthquake in the South American country is only comparable with the one that the biggest registered one shook on May 22, 1960 to Valdivia, to the south of Santiago, in the planet. In that occasion, the earthquake reached a magnitude 9,6 on the Richter scale and stopped approximately 3.000 dead persons and more than 2 millions of harmed. To the earthquake he was followed by a tsunami 10 meters high that came up to Hawaii, where it caused 61 dead persons, and other 32 in the Philippines.”

“Chile, he is located in the called “belt of fire” that borders on the countries washed by the Pacific Ocean, one of the most seismic areas of the planet, where 80 % of the earthquakes takes place.”

“The Belt of Fire of the Pacific Ocean concentrates some of the more important areas of subduction of the world: badges of the earth's crust sink at big geologic speed (several centimeters per year) in other badges, a phenomenon that accumulates enormous tensions that must be liberated in the shape of earthquake”

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