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ENVIRONMENT: Tree Plantations Are Not Forests, Women Activists Say
Touted as "harvested forests," single-crop tree plantations are fast encroaching on the native forests and grasslands of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, affecting the environment and the lives of local communities, rural women say.ENVIRONMENT: Gov’t Silence Dooms Whales to Slaughter
Latin American governments are considering a bloc response to the Japanese whaling fleet's departure for Antarctica, in a new season of what it claims is "hunting for scientific purposes" and which threatens to kill 1,000 whales in the protected Southern Ocean sanctuary.AGRICULTURE-ARGENTINA: Desperately Dry
The persistent drought affecting some 90 percent of Argentine territory has slain cattle in the hundreds of thousands and caused forest fires, drastic restrictions on water use and local disputes over water.ARGENTINA: ‘Grandma, Will You Read to Me?’
"Moving," "rewarding," "therapeutic" are some of the terms used to describe their volunteer work by some of the women taking part in the Storytelling Grandmothers Programme aimed at awakening a love of reading among youngsters from poor families in Argentina.ARGENTINA: Child Benefits Expanded to Unemployed and Informal Workers
A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as an extraordinary step forward in terms of social policy.
ARGENTINA: ‘Drugs Are Killing the Youngsters We’re Feeding’
"You often ask yourself why feed them if some wretch is just going to come along and sell them that rubbish," says Isabel Ruiz, who runs the Las Brujas soup kitchen in Moreno, a poor neighbourhood on the west side of the Argentine capital.CLIMATE CHANGE: Investment in Ecosystems Key to Adaptation
Investing in the sustainable management of ecosystems and curbing environmental degradation greatly improves the capacity of nations to adapt to climate change, according to a study carried out in 16 countries by two environmental organisations.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Much More Than Carbon Storage
The world's forests and jungles are much more than carbon storage sites and compensation for greenhouse emissions, experts and activists point out to governments that are negotiating a new global climate change treaty.
Forests Much More Than Carbon Storage
The bid to include forests in initiatives to mitigate climate change is turning out to be a sensitive issue for the planet.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Grassroots Campaign Calls for Bold Steps
Through nearly 5,000 different actions planned in 170 countries for Saturday, climate change activists will try to raise public awareness on the need for a new global climate treaty which would set an upper limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide that would effectively prevent environmental catastrophes.CLIMATE CHANGE: How Eco-Friendly Is Natural Gas?
Natural gas, a non-renewable yet plentiful energy source, is being promoted by the gas industry as part of the solution to climate change. But experts say that its contribution to global warming is only slightly less than that of coal and oil.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Taking Forests into Account
What role can forests play in the fight against climate change? What impact do tree plantations have? What effect will the bioenergy craze have on forests? These are some of the questions that experts, government officials and business leaders from around the world will try to answer next week in Argentina.ARGENTINA: Opposition, Media Giants to Fight New Law
While civil society groups celebrated Argentina's new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December.ARGENTINA: Through the Lens of Young Slum Dwellers
Two dozen young slum dwellers in Buenos Aires began filming a documentary about themselves this month, in an attempt to break down the negative stereotypes with which they are portrayed in the media.
Q&A: Desertification and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand
"The entire social fabric of an area is compromised when soils are depleted," says Italian expert Massimo Candelori, whose fight against desertification is increasingly linked to global efforts to combat climate change.
Desertification and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand
Precise indicators are needed to quantify desertification and its interactions with climate change, says expert Massimo Candelori in this exclusive Tierramérica interview.ENVIRONMENT: Synergies in Fight Against Desertification , Climate Change
Climate change aggravates soil degradation, but sustainable use of land resources can, in turn, mitigate global warming, according to participants at the United Nations conference on desertification in the Argentine capital.ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities
A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake to defend their rights.
ARGENTINA: Women Judges Not Enough; Gender Awareness Training Needed
For Argentina’s justice system to truly incorporate a gender perspective, more important than overcoming the male-female imbalance in the higher rungs of the judicial branch is providing gender-awareness training for judges of both sexes so that it is reflected in their rulings, experts say.LATIN AMERICA: Desertification – an Invisible Cancer
"Desertification is the cancer of the earth," Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. "It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is visible there is nothing to be done, and people have to move away, in search of an alternative."ARGENTINA: Corruption Cases Pick Up Speed
While the popularity of the Argentine government of President Cristina Fernández is waning, allegations of corruption against public officials have mushroomed.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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