Carving up continents

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3121, 2017, págs. 22-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • After years of protest, the world's biggest civil engineering project yet is now cleared for takeoff. Late last month, the Supreme Court in Nicaragua turned down the last environmental claim delaying the construction of the $50 billion Interoceanic Grand Canal. It will carve a 273-kilometer channel through the small Central American country to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean--even though the Panama Canal, 1,000 kilometers to the south, already does the job, and received a massive upgrade less than a year ago. Here, Pearce talks about the environmental chaos that could ensue when alien species navigate between newly linked oceans.