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Organic Coffee Tasting Better All the Time

By Thelma Mejía and - -
Coffee grown without the use of chemical inputs is giving the indigenous Lencas reason to be optimistic, as their organic harvest fetches higher prices in a depressed market. The aim is to cultivate crops "in harmony with nature."

Ecobreves – CHILE: ‘Where Muck Goes’

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The popular children’s show “31 Minutes”, of the state-run Televisión Nacional de Chile, is hosted by puppets and includes a segment on the environment, the first broadcast of which will track “where muck goes”.
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SARS – Atypical Pneumonia

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The outbreak of atypical pneumonia, with the first cases appearing in Asia, in just a few weeks has become headline news around the world, largely because the illness remains a mystery, because it is potentially deadly, is highly contagious, and seems to like air travel.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Forest Inventory

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuela will conduct an inventory of its forestry resources over the next six year, with help from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), announced environment and natural resources minister Ana Elisa Osorio.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Biosphere Could Lose Its Title

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The biosphere reserve of the Plátano River, in northeast Honduras, could lose its “heritage of humanity” status, granted by the United Nations, due to the environmental deterioration of the area, official sources told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Trials for Illegal Logging

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The environmental prosecutor of Guatemala is pursuing more than 20 lawsuits against companies and individuals for the illegal logging and trade of the country’s forest resources, the aim being to halt deforestation, legal assistant José Luis Rivera told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – NICARAGUA: Effects of Solar Radiation Studied

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ten years of investigations into the impact of solar radiation on life and on human health have been compiled in the book “Tropical Solar Radiation”, written in Spanish, and published in Nicaragua by the Jesuit Central American University (UCA).

Cluster Bombs Turn Iraq into a Minefield

By IPS Correspondents and - -
In the post-war it is essential, say experts, to assess the impact on civilians of the weaponry used by the United States in Iraq, including the lethal cluster bombs.

Ecobreves – MEXICO:: Forest Emergency

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Seasonal fires are devastating the forests of Mexico, and officials should declare a national emergency, says the non-governmental Network of Peasant Forestry Organizations.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Digging Up Banned Pesticide

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A New Zealand firm, with the backing of the Argentine Chamber of Chemical and Petrochemical Industries, is beginning this week to dig up 30 tons of the toxic Gamexane, buried clandestinely 13 years ago in a northwestern province of Argentin

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Streamlining Environmental Paperwork

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental officials in the Colombian capital recently launched a program to shorten by up to 40 percent the timeframes for evaluation and follow-up for licenses, permits, concessions, authorizations and other instruments used in ecological controls.
l-Kadhimain mosque in Iraq - Photo Stock

War Could Wipe Out Ancient History

By Diego Cevallos and - -
Iraq, set in the cradle of Western civilization, holds 10,000 archeological sites with countless secrets still to be deciphered. Experts fear that the war will bury many of them forever.

“We hope for some sensitivity from the military”

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A special UNESCO team will assess the damage to Iraq’s cultural heritage caused by the war, which poses numerous threats to this historic legacy, said Mounir Bouchenaki, assistant director of the organization, in a conversation with Tierramérica.

Do We Face a Global Quarantine?

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Thousands of cases of a new and potentially lethal form of pneumonia have been reported in the past few weeks, but while the disease spreads, experts are realizing how little they know about the virus that causes it.
Children in northern Iraq. - UN Oil for Food Program

Humanitarian Emergency

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The war in Iraq has caused a humanitarian emergency affecting 27 million people. The conflict has obvious repercussions for a civilian population that is already suffering the lack of health care, food, water and housing, even if they are not directly threatened by bombs and bullets.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Educational Expedition

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Scientists will provide environmental education in the eastern Humboldt National Park to improve the living conditions of the residents of this important preserve of Antilles flora and fauna.

Ecobreves – NICARAGUA: Iodine in the Salt

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Saltworks Association of Nicaragua and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have signed an agreement to ensure the addition of iodine -- a nutritional necessity -- to 95 percent of the salt consumed in this Central American country.

Ecobreves – GUATEMALA:: Reforestation of Two River Basins

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Some 4,000 hectares of Los Esclavos and María Linda river basins, in central and southern Guatemala, will be reforested by the ministries of Agriculture and of Energy and Mines

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Illness Blamed on US Mining Firm

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents of Valle de Siria, in the central department of Francisco Morazán, suffer skin diseases and respiratory illnesses, which they blame on the mining activities of the U.S.-based transnational Entre Mares.
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Eden in the Line of Fire

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ninety-three percent of the wetlands have disappeared in Mesopotamia, the great oasis of the Middle East. Now, war threatens to destroy what little remains.

Squid under Siege

By Marcela Valente and - -
Foreign ships clandestinely fish for this profitable species in Argentine waters.
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