Tierramerica

Ecobreves – ITALY: Ant Farming Is Good Business

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In the northern Italian hills of Ascoli, beekeeper Emidio Ferreti is raising ants to sell them at market. The ants are used for fighting other crop-destroying insects, pollinating olive trees, and even for filming movie scenes.
Illustration of what the ozone hole over the South Pole looked like on Sep. 10, based on data from a NASA satellite. - NASA)

60 Years to Restore the Ozone Layer Over Antarctica

By Stephen Leahy and - -
The ozone layer is recovering almost everywhere, but over Antarctica the process will take until 2065. "We cannot take the ozone layer for granted," says the director of UNEP, the global environmental authority.
An ethanol pump in the United States, which imports this biofuel from Brazil. - Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

Biofuel Boom Sparks Environmental Fears

By Mario Osava and - -
Many countries in Latin America seek to emulate Brazil's use of ethanol and biodiesel. But environmentalists warn that intense deforestation is often the result of the expansion of these otherwise more eco-friendly fuels.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Energy Drink Formula Seeks Market

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Students at Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute developed a unique energy drink that combines sugarcane juice and an endemic plant that is also believed to be a sexual stimulant. In six months, it may be ready to compete on the market.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Amazon Deforestation Still a Worry

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Although deforestation of the vast Brazilian Amazon region has seen an "encouraging" decline this year, the forested area destroyed is equivalent to more than half the territory of Belgium, according to the head of the Amazonian Institute of Man and the Environment, Carlos Souza Junior.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Calls for Highway's Environmental Impact Study

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents and environmentalists in the central Argentine province of Córdoba denounced that for the past six months a 25-km road project has been under way to unite two tourist towns, but that they haven't been given access to the environmental impact study.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Keeping an Eye on the Jaguar

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fifteen research and photo stations deep in the jungles of the northern Guatemalan department of El Petén are tracking the behavior of jaguars, which face extinction due to deforestation and over-hunting.
Children on the banks of the polluted Riachuelo River - Clarín Contenidos

A Flammable Neighborhood

By Marcela Valente and - -
Potentially explosive chemical storage sites threaten the lives of thousands of people in Argentina's Matanza-Riachuelo river basin. Officials are studying the possibility of relocating some communities.
Riding all-terrain vehicles is a popular form of recreation in the desert - Photo Stock

Dunes at the Center of All-Terrain Battle

By Haider Rizvi and - -
The U.S. government insists on allowing recreational activities in a fragile desert ecosystem on the U.S.-Mexico border. Environmentalists oppose efforts to open up protected areas to all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts.
The tropical caligo butterfly. - Claudio Contreras

Butterflies in an Italian Eden

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Two Italian bird experts have created a paradise in the province of Pavia for another type of flying creature: butterflies -- the hardest hit by pollution and changes in farming over the past 30 years. Tierramérica paid them a visit.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Water Dispute with Argentina Resurfaces

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Chile has renewed its protest against Argentina's publication of maps that annex the southern territory of Campos de Hielo Sur (Southern Ice Field of Patagonia), one of the planet's largest reserves of freshwater.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: World Record for Container Collection

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazil, world champion in recycling of aluminum cans, has achieved the same record for collecting used containers for agro-chemicals, surpassing similar programs in countries of the North, like Canada and Germany.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: An Eye on Nuclear Waste in the Pacific

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Guatemalan government and private entities have opened a laboratory for detecting contamination from toxic and nuclear substances in industry and ship traffic in a portion of the Pacific Ocean.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Much-Feared Duckweed Generates Income

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Three resident cooperatives in the San Luis neighborhood of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city, located on the lake of the same name, have obtained up to 5,000 dollars per day for harvesting lemna sp, the much-feared water lentil, or duckweed, that has taken over the lake's surface.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: 'Green' Village at Heart of a Mountain

By IPS Correspondents and - -
El Pino, which covers more than 107 million hectares in the northern Honduran department of Atlántida, is being promoted as "the green villate" for the environmentally sustainable activities of its residents.
Inside a mine in Peru. - Proceso

Mining an Open Pit of Disputes

By Diego Cevallos and - -
Latin America's two leading mines have been hit by labor conflicts. The workers who daily risk their lives in extracting ore are demanding their share of the industry's recent bonanza.
Mexico's Santa Clara marsh is home to the reddish egret (Egretta rufescens - Claudio Contreras

Binational Crusade to Save Wetlands

By Stephen Leahy and - -
A powerful desalinization plant will reopen in 2007 near the Mexico-U.S. border. Scientists in both countries will be working to halt harm to the Ciénaga de Santa Clara, a large marsh in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.

Ecobreves – URUGUAY: Majority Heeds Anti-Smoking Decree

By IPS Correspondents and - -
With few exceptions, Uruguayans are obeying the six-month-old presidential decree that bans smoking in enclosed spaces, whether public or private, aside from one's own home.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Small Farmers to Protect Water Source

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fifteen farming families will each earn 100 to 260 dollars a month over the next three years for maintaining the forests on the banks of the Cubatao River, which provides water for the half-million residents of the city of Joinville in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA:: Protecting Biodiversity on Triple Border

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have agreed a biodiversity project with a budget of 4.6 million dollars aimed at benefiting some 670,000 people in more than 45 municipalities along the three countries' shared border.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Dredging to Prevent Floods

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Authorities from the town of Montería, in the northern Colombian department of Córdoba, will begin dredging and rehabilitation work in September on La Caimanera channel.
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