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Tierramerica - Ecobrief
Ecobreves – CHILE: Demand for Dioxin Information
The EcoOceans Center, the Latin American Environmental Conflicts Observatory (OLCA) and the Citizen Consumers League have called on all Chileans to abstain from eating pork during the national holidays of Sep. 18-19.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Flower Covers Vital Reservoir
The "bora" (eichhornia crassipes), is a species of tropical water hyacinth that has spread like a green carpet over two-thirds of La Mariposa reservoir in Venezuela. The reservoir covers 54 hectares and has a capacity of 8 million liters, which supplies most of the Venezuelan capital.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: African Palm to Reforest the Amazon
An agreement between Brazil's ministries of Agriculture and Environment authorizes utilizing the African palm (Elaeis guineensis) and other exotic species for recuperating forests in the country's Amazon region.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: New Environmental Rules Announced
The Honduran government has announced new environmental regulations two years after the free trade agreement with the United States, known as CAFTA, entered into force.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: São Paulo Sets Climate Change Goals
The city government of São Paulo, Brazil's most populous city, has set a goal to reduce municipal emissions of greenhouse gases by 30 percent, with a deadline of 2012 -- ahead of the federal government's target date.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Universities Commit to the Environment
The 20 universities in Honduras signed an environmental pledge on Aug. 18 that includes reforms in their programs and greater participation in managing threatening situations, research and policies.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Justice Orders Demolition of Embankment in Wetland Preserve
The Forestal Andina company received an order from the justice department of the northern Argentine province of Corrientes to demolish immediately the 27-kilometer embankment it built in the Esteros del Iberá ecological preserve.Ecobreves – MEXICO: More Traffic Restrictions, Better Air Quality
The inclusion of Saturdays in the Mexican capital's program for limiting the circulation of certain cars to certain days has made a notable improvement in air quality.Ecobreves – CUBA: New Biological Rodent Poison
Experts from Cuba's Plant Sciences Research Institute have created a new biological product for fighting rodents that attack crops, institute scientist Pedro Pablo Mora told Tierramérica.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Edible Oil Waste to Fuel Buses
Biodiesel distilled from edible oil waste from restaurants and households will fuel 18 buses in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, whose transportation system is an international model and award winner.Ecobreves – CHILE: Preparing First Fisheries and Aquiculture Census
From September 2008 to April 2009, Chile will conduct its first national fisheries and aquiculture census. The results will be ready by the end of next year.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Thousands of Children in Eco-Games
Some 15,000 children headed to 50 parks and zoos in Venezuela to start the 30th Ecological Games, which combine recreational activities with environmental education during two weeks of school vacation.Ecobreves – MEXICO: Eye On Climate Change and Renewable Energy
A scientific report, entrusted to the Veracruzana University of Mexico, will measure the impact of climate change on renewable energy.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Electric Motorcycle On the Horizon
The electric motorcycle will be able to travel one kilometer per one cent of the Brazilian real (.006 dollars). This super-efficient bike will enter its final testing phase this month and will be launched in 2009 by the Brazilian electric company CPFL.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Petrified Forest to Be National Park
Argentina’s parliament is studying a bill that would create a new national park in the southern province of Santa Cruz in order to preserve its unique petrified forest.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: No Justice for Murdered Ecologists
Environmental and human rights organizations in Honduras have sought measures from the Inter-American Human Rights court following the escape of three of the four policemen implicated in the murder of ecologists Heraldo Zúniga and Roger Iván Murillo.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Caribbean Brings Garbage to Shores of Tortuga Island
The sea is the vehicle for pollution of the islands of the southern Caribbean, even the nearly uninhabited ones like La Tortuga, located 150 kilometers northeast of the Venezuelan capital.Ecobreves – CHILE: Illegal Logging in Native Forest Under Investigation
The investigative police in Chile are looking into a report of illegal logging in a native forest for the construction of a road to a dam on the Cuervo River, a project of the Energía Austral company.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Date Set for Withdrawal of Canadian Mine
The Honduran mining development agency announced the withdrawal, in one year, of the Entremares mining company, a subsidiary of Canada’s Glamis Gold, which launched operations in this country in 2000.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Recycled Plastic for Solar Water Heaters
An apparatus made from discarded plastic containers provides hot water, making use of the abundant solar energy of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná.Ecobreves – LATIN AMERICA: Tierramérica Launches International Center
IPS news agency, the United Nations Development Program, United Nations Environment Program and the World Bank on July 31 will celebrate the founding assembly of the Tierramérica International Center for Sustainable Development and Environmental Defense, in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus.« Previous Page — Next Page »
Tierramérica is the main communications platform on sustainable development and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is produced by IPS Noticias, the agency’s Spanish-language service, which created it jointly with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with later support from the World Bank. The weekly editions of Tierramérica are published in Spanish, Portuguese and English and are picked up and printed by dozens of media outlets in the region. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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