UN, 20 September 2014 – In the lead-up to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's
Climate Summit, the United Nations lit up its iconic Headquarters
complex in New York with a spectacular 30-story architectural projection
show aimed to inspire global citizens to take climate action.
Entitled
“illUmiNations: Protecting Our Planet”, and organized in partnership
with the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) and Obscura Digital, the
projections were shown on the white marble west facade of the UN General
Assembly Hall and north facade of the Secretariat building from 7:30 to
11 p.m. Saturday evening.
UN, 9 September 2014 – Underscoring that peace is more than just the
absence of war, United Nations officials today stressed the need for
concerted efforts to achieve the common vision of a life of dignity and
well-being for all.
“We know that peace cannot be decreed solely through treaties – it must
be nurtured through the dignity, rights and capacities of every man and
woman,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks
to the High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace, convened by the
General Assembly. “It is a way of being, of interacting with others, of
living on this planet.”
The annual UN climate conference opened Monday in Poland, a European country that has been singled out for its pollution. Negotiations will continue until 2015, when an emissions agreement must be signed....
By Anne-Diandra LOUARN (text)
Smokestacks as high as the Eiffel Tower, 30 million tons of carbon dioxide produced each year … welcome to the Bełchatów Power Station in Poland.
This giant thermal plant produces 20 percent of the country’s electricity and has its own mine for the extraction of lignite, or brown coal.
By Joel Achenbach
There are scads of building-size, potentially hazardous asteroids
lurking in Earth’s immediate neighborhood, and they may be colliding
with the planet 10 times more often than scientists have previously
believed, according to a new study published Wednesday that examined the
airburst of a 25-million-pound asteroid earlier this year near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
Three studies released Wednesday, two in the journal Nature and
one in the journal Science, have provided the most detailed description
and analysis of the dramatic event on the morning of Feb. 15.
Scientists now estimate the diameter of the object at just a hair
under 20 meters, or about 65 feet. Undetected by astronomers, the rock
came out of the glare of the sun and hit the atmosphere at 43,000 miles
per hour.
Exclusive: Journalist uses Freedom of Information Act to disclose 1961 accident in which one switch averted catastrophe.
A
secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by
the Guardian today, reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically
close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have
been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima.
The
document, obtained by the investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under
the Freedom of Information Act, gives the first conclusive evidence
that the US was narrowly spared a disaster of monumental proportions
when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over
Goldsboro, North Carolina on 23 January 1961.
Pour
le 333e mois consécutif, la température de la planète en novembre a été
supérieure à la moyenne relevée pour la même période au cours du XXe
siècle, d'après le bilan mensuel publié par la National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) américaine. Une température mensuelle
mondiale inférieure à la moyenne du XXe siècle n'a plus été observée sur
Terre depuis le mois de février 1985.
