Environment

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Government to Build Aerodrome in Maya Archeological Area

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The government of Honduras plans to build an aerodrome near Copán Archeological Park, but will ensure that it has no environmental impacts on the Amarillo River, which flows through the area.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Promoting Wind Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuba is striving to develop wind power and contribute to its expansion in the rest of the Caribbean, said energy specialist Conrado Moreno, organizer of a world conference on this energy source to be held for the first time ever in Latin America.

Hydropower Dam to Flood Sacred Amazon Indigenous Site

By Fabíola Ortiz
The Sete Quedas or “seven waterfalls” on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous groups.

Europe Thinks Again About Food

By Claudia Ciobanu
Present day European farming is based on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which was created over six decades ago by countries emerging from severe food shortages that swept the continent during and after the Second World War.

Cambodia’s Hydro Plans Carry Steep Costs

By Lawrence Del Gigante
The Cambodian government has committed to the construction of two dams along the Mekong River in order to meet a huge demand for electricity, but environmental groups warn that severe repercussions loom for this strategy.
Courtesy of Per Bertilsson

Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable

By Thalif Deen
With the U.N. ominously warning of an impending food crisis following severe droughts in farmlands in the United States, Brazil, Russia and at least two rain-deprived states in India, the world will once again turn its attention to a finite natural resource: water.

Activists in Argentina Expect Landmark Ruling against Agrochemicals

By Marcela Valente
After more than a decade of campaigning against toxic agrochemicals, a group of women from a poor neighbourhood in the northern Argentine city of Córdoba have brought large-scale soybean growers to trial for the health damages caused by spraying.

Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper Hunger Crisis

By Haider Rizvi
Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe.

Belo Monte Dam Can No Longer Ignore Native Communities

By Fabiana Frayssinet
A judicial order to halt construction of the Belo Monte dam in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest may be just one more battle in a long-drawn-out war in the courts over the controversial hydroelectric project.

Q&A: Hospitals Working to Reduce Their Ecological Footprint

By Marianela Jarroud
Medical care is associated with images of cleanliness and good health. Today’s hospitals, however, are major sources of pollution and consume large amounts of valuable resources, like energy.

Crocs and Humans Clash in Shrinking Space

By Malini Shankar
Twenty two-year-old Ajay Kallu, hailing from the Bakultala village in northern Andamans, was devoured by an estuarine crocodile when he waded waist deep into a creek to fish on the morning of Aug. 1, marking the fifth fatal crocodile attack in 28 months in the remote Islands that lie at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

Plant Diseases Threaten Food Security in Kivu, DR Congo

By Baudry Aluma
Plant diseases affecting bananas and cassava are gaining ground in two provinces in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to South Kivu's provincial minister for agriculture, Gisèle Batembo.

Biopolymers and the Dream of a Green Petrochemical Industry

By Fabiana Frayssinet
Brazil leads global production of biopolymers, an industry that generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuel-based plastic manufacture. But "green plastics" made from sugarcane have a sour aftertaste.

U.N. Launches New Oceans Compact Following Expo 2012

By Thalif Deen
As the three-month-long international exhibition Expo 2012 came to a close in the South Korean coastal town of Yeosu last week, the United Nations announced the launch of an "Oceans Compact" aimed at the preservation of marine resources worldwide.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Promoting the Right to Mobility

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Civil society organizations in Mexico City are promoting the right to mobility, which involves social, economic and environmental policies.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: First Solid Waste Plant Opening Soon

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The municipality of Marcovia, in southern Honduras, will be the first in the country with a plant for treating and recycling solid wastes, which will enter into operation in September. The recycled material will be sold to companies in El Salvador and Guatemala.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA : Agrochemical Suit Could Set Precedent

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The relatives of victims affected by aerial spraying of toxic agrochemicals in the central Argentine province of Córdoba hope the lawsuit filed against two farmers and a fumigator will set a legal precedent.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Biofilter Reduces Landfill Pollution

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Researchers at the University of São Paulo have developed a biofilter that uses bacteria to reduce the amount of polluting gases released by sanitary landfills.

U.S. Drought Exposes “Hydro-Illogical” Water Management

By Carlota Cortes
The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term.

Jeju Island Base Divides Korean, International Green Groups

By Jon Letman
As construction of a hotly contested naval base on South Korea’s Jeju Island advances, there’s a showdown underway.

It’s Either Orangutans Or Cheap Palm Oil

By Kafil Yamin
When four men were sentenced to eight months in jail in March for the ‘murder’ of orangutans, it was the first time that people associated with Indonesia’s booming palm oil industry were convicted for killing man’s close relations in the primate family.
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