Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Sawdust to Remove Metals from Water

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Lumber waste is helping to clean up rivers and industrial effluents, removing heavy metals like chromium and lead, according to a study by the University of Brasilia.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Protests Against Cereal Pollution

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Based in a tent in the eastern Argentine city of Rosario, civil society groups are demanding action on a court order to shut down a cereal storage and production site that they say is polluting the environment with pesticides.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: A Highway Challenge

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican authorities approved the construction of 62 kilometers of highway in a forested area outside the capital, but environmentalists are preparing legal action and mobilizations, charging that the road would destroy a biodiverse area that is also essential for water production.

Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Regional Lacks Environmental Policies

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In Central America "there are no uniform public policies to ensure that polluting our quality of life is also a matter of corruption and lack of transparency," said Roxana Salazar, environmentalist and interim judge in Costa Rica's Constitutional Court.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Eco-Materials for Areas Hit by Hurricanes

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A construction method with alternative materials resistant to extreme climate will help alleviate the housing deficits in two Cuban provinces hard hit by hurricanes Ike and Gustav.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Promoting Inclusive Recycling

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Very few municipalities in Chile apply “clear policies for waste management, with environmental, economic and social components, where all benefit,” Exequiel Estay, secretary-general of the National Movement of Recyclers, told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Honduras and El Salvador Agree on Water Management

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The governments of Honduras and El Salvador will launch a binational project in 2009 to manage the water resources they share in the Lempa River zone, Karen Zelaya, the Honduran minister of cooperation, told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: GPS to Monitor Harpy Eagle

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Dozens of harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) are being tracked by GPS, the satellite location system, after being captured and released for research in the Imataca mountains, in southeastern Venezuela.
IPS Director General Mario Lubetkin and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. - Mithre Sandrasagra/IPS

Ecobreves – LATIN AMERICA: Official Inauguration of Tierramérica Center

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Tierramérica International Center for Sustainable Development and Environmental Defense was inaugurated at the United Nations headquarters in New York, with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in attendance.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: From Garbage to Micro-Enterprise

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 30 families from the community of El Volcán, in the central Honduran valley of Comayagua, launched a project this month to recycle garbage.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Industries that Save Forests

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The industrial complex established in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaos at a cost of heavy subsidies since 1967 has reduced deforestation in the northeastern state of Amazonas by 70 percent between 2000 and 2006.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: International Dialogue on Climate Change

By IPS Correspondents and - -
"Adaptation, mitigation, technology transfer and financing" were the issues dealt with at the climate change meeting that drew environment ministers from 25 countries to the southern Argentine city of El Calafate.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Promising Invention for Spinal Injuries

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican researchers have synthesized a polymer that promises to restore the electrical connections in a damaged spinal cord, which could help injured people recover mobility.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Adiós to Controversial Forestry Agency

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The much-criticized Honduran forestry development agency, Cohdefor, officially halted operations on Monday, Sep. 15, after more than three decades, and ceding the way for the new governmental body, the Forest Conservation Institute (IFC).

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Amazon Boat Runs on Solar Power

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The first solar-powered boat is already navigating rivers in the Brazilian Amazon. Weighing 250 kilograms and a capacity to carry four people, the Siesuí 1 serves a hotel on the Araçá River in the northwestern state of Amazonas.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Progress on Native Forest Law

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Chile's Ministry of Agriculture opened the registration period until Sep. 29 to run for a post on the Consultative Council of the Law on Native Forest Recovery, published in the Official Newspaper of Jul. 30.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Transit and Garbage on the Electoral Agenda

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The combined problem of garbage and transit in Caracas awaits solutions in the final stretch of municipal and regional elections to take place in November across Venezuela.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Teachers Lacking in Natural Sciences

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An assessment of science teachers of secondary schools in Mexico shows that they know very little about physics, chemistry or biology.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: United Front Against Illegal Logging

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran National Human Rights Commission signed a pact with civil society groups and the government as part of a shared strategy to halt illegal logging and lumber trafficking.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Alternative Fertilizers to Fight Inflation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Brazilian government has decided to set aside 4.8 million dollars to develop alternative fertilizers, given the brutal hike in prices of conventional fertilizers.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Massacre of American Rhea

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An environmental group in Argentina has denounced the massacre in recent weeks of several hundred ñandú, or American rhea, a cousin of the ostrich that is increasingly threatened in the central province of Córdoba due to the expansion of soybean cultivation.
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