Tierramerica

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Promoting a World Social Forum in Amazonia

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The World Social Forum could be held in South America's Amazon region if the candidacy of the northern Brazilian city of Belém to host the massive civil society event is successful.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Food Aid for Drought Zones

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The World Food Program will deliver 1,400 tons of food to the people of three Honduran departments that lost their entire crops to drought blamed on the climate phenomenon known as El Niño, say officials.
Junk food reigns at snack time. - Photo Stock

Limiting the Junk Food Banquet

By Diego Cevallos, IPS, and - -
Latin America is waging its first wars against uncontrolled advertising and consumption of junk food.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: A Law to Save a Lake

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran Congress is debating a bill to halt the deterioration suffered by the northern Lake Yojoa, an area which holds great biodiversity.
Red tilapia raised in Caatinga Grande. - Rodrigo Farhat

Rural Residents Find Riches in Saltwater

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fish farming and growing forage crops resolve the problem of dealing with the waste left by water desalination in a thirsty community of the Brazilian Northeast.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Doctors Denounce Buried Arsenic

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Buried at the Altonorte foundry, near the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta, are 150,000 tons of waste minerals, with 30 percent arsenic, charges the region's medical association.

Ecobreves – CUBA: More Forested Areas by 2015

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Cuba hopes to plant trees on 67,000 hectares per year until 2015, with the goal of increasing its forest cover from its current 24.5 percent to 29 percent, said experts at a Havana conference last week.

Ecobreves – SOUTH AMERICA: Water Activists Issue Invitation to Governments

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The non-governmental South American Water Association, which met here last week, has called on the region's government's to take part in a forum this September in Peru.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Manufacturers Push Junk Food Ads

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexican manufacturers of "junk food" are exerting heavy pressure through the governing National Action Party so that parliament will throw out any bills intended to regulate advertising of foods with little or no nutritional value, say activists.
Devastated forests on Olancho hillsides. - National Human Rights Commission

Fragile Truce on Deforestation of Olancho

By Thelma Mejía and - -
Logging hasn't stopped in the Honduran department of Olancho, despite a partial ban decreed by the government in this environmental "red zone" of Mesoamerica.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Hepatitis and Malaria Decimate Amazon Indians

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Hepatitis and malaria are killing the indigenous peoples of the Javari River basin, bordering Peru, and the Brazilian government faces charges of failing to provide health care for five tribes whose populations total some 3,000 people.
Not enough money to buy fertilizer. - Photo Stock

Malawi's Farmers Don't Waste Human Waste

By Pilirani Semu-Banda and - -
Farmers in six of Malawi's 27 districts are using compost obtained from human excrement to avoid having to buy expensive chemical fertilizers for their fields.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Manual for NGO Conduct

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A self-evaluation tool for the behavior of non-governmental organizations was presented Apr. 11 in Buenos Aires by the Help Argentina association.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Endangered Orchids in Religious Procession

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Nazarene of St. Paul procession that takes place each year on Wednesday of Catholic Holy Week in the city center of Caracas, was this year adorned with 5,000 orchids that are endangered in Venezuela.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Solar Energy Arrives in Rural Community

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 60 homes in the Guantánamo community of Los Cerezos, some 1,000 km from Havana, will be supplied with electricity from photovoltaic cells by May.
Good-bye dense Amazon jungle? - Photo Stock

The Amazon Jungle as Vast Savanna

By Mario Osava, IPS, and - -
Global warming will broaden the effects of deforestation, which could turn 60 percent of the Amazon forest into grassland in this century, say scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In Samaná the challenge is to combine tourism with protecting an endangered species. - Alexandra Ramírez

A Balancing Act for Whales

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Dominican Republic has protected since 1986 the areas where humpback whales give birth. The sites have also attracted tens of thousands of tourists in recent years.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Advertising a Boon for Obesity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Television advertising is one of the main factors behind the rise of obesity in Brazil, says a University of Sao Paulo doctoral thesis.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Ecologists vs. Monsanto Soy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Transgenic-Free Chile Network opposes a project of the agribusiness transnational Monsanto to plant 5,000 hectares of genetically modified soybeans beginning in October 2007, and increasing to 20,000 hectares in 2010.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Regulations for Ethanol Production

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The government and sugar industry leaders in Honduras are pushing for passage of a biofuels law in the next six months to regulate ethanol production

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Water Recycling as Business

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The utilization of wastewater is big business for Brazil's big cities, which could solve their water shortage problems, Marcelo Zanini, director of the water treatment firm Biosistemas, told Tierramérica.
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