The oceans are becoming more acidic, Everest has more oxygen and this year we saw an unusual hurricane season. No matter how often we break a global temperature record … it never fails to be shocking. Nineteen of the 20 hottest years on record have occurred in this century , which is only 20 years old. The last six years have been the hottest in the last 140 years . This year it will extend that race to seven and may even top the list, according to a recent analysis by CarbonBrief.org. The extra trapped heat makes its way through…
Author: Hesper News Team
An exhibition of works of art by Jean-Luc Mylayne opens at the Van Gogh Museum On the occasion of the presentation ‘Van Gogh Inspires: Jean-Luc Mylayne’, the French artist has selected three relevant photographic works. From September 11, 2020 to February 14, 2021. With his love of nature, Van Gogh is an important source of inspiration for Jean-Luc Mylayne Both artists strive to express the connection they feel with nature in their works. The use of light, landscape colors and foreground details play an important role in the compositions. While Mylayne’s slow and leisurely approach contrasts with the energy and…
Hispanic voters have become the largest minority in the United States this year. Winning their vote in some key states may mean turning the polls upside down, the ultimate victory. With 32 million people entitled to vote, 13.3% of the US electorate, they have exceeded the number of registered African Americans, according to calculations by the Pew Research Center. And the number does not stop growing every year. The Latino vote, however, is not a bloc. Among the total of Latinos with the right to vote in the country, 59% are Mexican; 14% are Puerto Rican; 5% of Cuban origin…
When Robert Fisk traveled to the Sahrawi camps in Tindouf (Algeria) in 1997, coinciding with the visit of former US Secretary of State James Baker, he was already a saint of the international press. His grimace of skepticism at the young journalists who escorted him under the canopy of admiration gave by now the failure of the umpteenth UN mediation between the Polisario Front and Morocco. The veteran British correspondent, who has covered nearly every conflict in the Middle East over the past four decades, died of a sudden stroke in Dublin, his homeland of choice, on Sunday after he…
Being Diego Maradona and having only one body sounds like an unequal fight. The greatest idol of Argentine soccer, who turned 60 this Friday, October 30 and showed a deteriorated physical version was admitted this Monday night to a clinic in La Plata, 60 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires. While waiting for an official medical report, around the current Gymnastics coach they let a psychic relapse transcend. “I saw him reluctant,” said his personal doctor, Leopoldo Luque, who ruled out an emergency case. “It was an emotionally complicated week for him, with a lot of pressure,” Luque told the…
Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra and visiting professor at Harvard University, presents his latest book Science and conscience to resist , written with the scientific journalist Marisol Guisasola. The studies of Martínez-González (Málaga, 63 years old) have contributed to the advice given from Harvard to Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States, to improve public health and nutrition in her country. Martínez-González has led the Predimed network of researchers, the largest trial carried out so far in Europe on the effects of the Mediterranean…
With delay than expected and with fewer beneficiaries than initially calculated, the Government has given the green light this Tuesday to extraordinary aid for the unemployed who consumed their benefits or subsidies during the state of alarm. The measure that has come out of the Council of Ministers consists of an aid of 430 euros per month for three months for those who had exhausted their unemployment insurance between the declaration of the state of alarm and June 30, according to the Ministry of Labor. Under these conditions, the aid will reach just over 250,000 people. “Help is late and bad.” With…
Dressed in a blue prison uniform, Lee Chun-jae confessed in court on Monday to be the serial killer who for years sowed terror in Hwaseong, a rural region south of Seoul. But he has not done so in a trial where he was tried, but instead appeared as a witness in a new trial to another man who was convicted of one of those crimes. “I am the real criminal,” Lee assured the judge. He and no one else is guilty of the deaths of 14 people (women and girls) and thirty sexual crimes, reports the Yonhap agency.An investigation based…
About 100 million Americans have already voted early in a historic election. This means that 73% of all votes registered in 2016 have already been cast before polling stations open across the country. Still, a handful of states are key to the aspirations of Donald Trump and his rival, Democrat Joe Biden. The re-election of the Republican or the victory of his opponent traverse a route of disputed territories. Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, and Georgia hold the key to success predicted by the 270 votes needed in the Electoral College to become president of the United States. To these has been…
For the Republican Party, this has been a campaign by, for, ancle to that effective “let’s build the wall”2016. Th everything has been Trump. It is difficult to imagine a more personalistic political project. To the point that, at its national convention last August, the party resigned, for the first time in its history, to debate and present a program. The formation, explained the Republican National Committee, “will continue to enthusiastically support the president’s America First agenda.” Nothing else. Trump has not complied with promises, beyond hyperbolic phrases (“we will create the best economy in history”, “I will fight for you more than…