Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – MEXICO: A Green Guide to Businesses and Services

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An ecological guide will promote eco-friendly providers of goods and services in Mexico beginning in September.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: More Grassfires

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The burning of weeds this month set off a new rash of fires in eight provinces of northeastern Argentina, the environmental group Fundación Proteger has charged.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Uruguayan Thermoelectric Plant Faces Criticism

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmentalists are fighting Uruguay’s plans to build a coal-fired electrical plant to generate 350 megawatts in Candiota, a town in southern Brazil near the Uruguayan border.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Electricity from Garbage

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A biogas plant with the capacity to process 21 tons of urban waste daily will be inaugurated in September in Havana. The methane gas produced will be enough to generate 60 kilowatts of energy per hour.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Capital Is Home to 320 Bird Species

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The metropolitan area of Caracas, with 1.5 million vehicles and four million people who generate five million kilograms of waste per day, continues to serve as habitat for 320 species of birds, a quarter of the national total.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Amazon Biodiesel for Electricity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Thousands of communities throughout the Brazilian Amazon will have access to electricity as the result of biodiesel made from the oil of the tucumán, a native palm tree.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Detox Bacteria Discovered

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Research conducted in Argentina has proved that some bacteria are capable of breaking down and detoxifying otherwise polluting liquid waste from tanneries and paper, textile and chemical industries.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Free Refrigerator Replacement

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazilian electricity companies are donating more than 30,000 new refrigerators each year to poor families as part of the national plan to eliminate chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which damage the Earth's ozone layer.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Kids Sign Charter Against Global Warming

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In the schools of the state of Mexico, neighboring Mexico City, there is a charter circulating in which the students commit themselves to 24 actions aimed at halting global climate change.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Climate Threatens Food Production

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Excessive rainfall in some areas and prolonged drought in other areas of Honduras threaten agricultural production and food supplies, warn farmers and the International Monetary Fund.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Exotic Plague Advances

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The "ácaro rojo" (Raoiella indica), an insect measuring just 0.3 millimeters, has devastated several hundred hectares planted with coconut palms on Venezuela's northwest and northeast coast, reports the government's autonomous agricultural health service.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Uniting Against Salmon Farms

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Business leaders, artisanal fishers, tourism operators, students and citizen organizations in Puerto Natales, in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes, have created the Salmon-Farm Free Patagonia Association.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Regional Network for Sustainable Forests

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuba officially joined the Regional Network of Model Forests of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC-Net) on Jul. 5 through a project to cultivate tropical plants on 30,000 hectares in the central province of Villa Clara.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Fighting Chagas Disease

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Honduras is working with Canada to put together 60 million dollars in funding for ecological and health projects in areas where Chagas disease is endemic. The illness has spread from rural areas to urban areas of the capital.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Studying Fungus as Insecticide

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican scientists are researching different types of fungus that kill harmful insects without hurting the environment.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: A Promise Not to Buy Amazon Soybeans

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Supermarket chains and the vegetable oil industry in Brazil have promised for another year not to purchase soybeans grown in recently deforested areas of the Amazon.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Government Sets Sights on Wind Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran government plans to sign a contract at year end with a U.S. company to generate the first 100 megawatts of wind energy in this Central American country, in the southern region of Cerro de Hula.

Ecobreves – MERCOSUR: How to Adapt to Climate Change

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The vulnerabilities of the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) to climate change were the subject of debate by meteorologists and environmentalists gathered in the Argentine capital.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: New Rules for Oil Spill Cleanup

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil's National Environment Council has adopted new rules to prevent and deal with oil spills in national waters, updating legislation from 2001.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Eye on Desertification

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Venezuelan government has launched a plan to fight desertification, which begins with a diagnosis and description of each of its 24 regions.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Low-Energy Lightbulb Plan Advances

By IPS Correspondents and - -
From March to June, the Chilean government handed out 351,132 low-consumption electric lightbulbs to 175,566 families in six regions of the country as part of a national energy-saving program with a budget of 5.6 million dollars.
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