Aliens aboard

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2910, 2013, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Pearce talks about eradicating invasive species from ballast water. Around a decade later an unknown ship, probably from the Bay of Bengal, discharged ballast water into the coastal waters of Peru, releasing a strain of cholera that contaminated shellfish. People ate the shellfish and the disease spread, killing 12,000 across Latin America. Right now, the same thing, or something worse, could be happening almost anywhere. A United Nations treaty agreed in 2004 requiring ships to install kit to kill off biological stowaways in their ballast water has still not been ratified by enough nations to come into force. Its day may come when the environmental protection committee of the UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO) meets in London in May.