Tierramerica
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War Declared on Dengue

By Patricia Grogg and - -
This tropical disease, for which there is still no vaccine, is seeing an upsurge in Latin America this year. Experts link it to the effects of climate change.

Using Vegetable Oil to Propel Cars

By Mario Osava and - -
In their search for a more eco-friendly fuel, Brazilian researchers are exploring the potential of biodiesel, which utilizes inputs like used vegetable oil from fast-food restaurants. The formula would reduce the emission of gases that cause the greenhouse effect.
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Food Insecurity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Hunger is one of the worst miseries, and in spite of all the technological and social advances that humanity has achieved, more than 800 million people on the planet suffer its effects today.
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Monarchs without a Throne

By Diego Cevallos and - -
In their annual 5,000-km migratory ritual, not all monarch butterflies reach protected sanctuaries. Many alight in other locations in Mexico, where the silence of the forest takes them in and anonymity protects them.
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The Return of the “Bird Children”

By IPS Correspondents and - -
From October to March, the Magellan penguins return to land after months at sea, arriving in southern Chile to mate, creating a stirring spectacle for the humans fortunate enough to observe them.
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Space Rocks

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Asteroids stimulate our imaginations about outer space because these relatively small celestial bodies, which share our solar system, pose a danger to life as we know it a large one should happen to collide with Earth.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: The Transformation of a Zoo

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The National Parks Institute proposes to renovate the Las Delicias zoo located in north-central Venezuela at the foot of the Henri Pitier National Park, one of the country's most important nature preserves.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: Environmental Video Contest

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The non-governmental Terra Nostra Association is organizing its third Central American Environmental Video Contest to urge filmmakers to produce audiovisual works with ecological content.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Ecology at the World Social Forum

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental issues will have a prominent role at the World Social Forum II, which from Jan 31 to Feb 5 will draw non-governmental organizations and progressive-minded intellectuals and politicians to Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, to discuss the construction of "another possible world."

Ecobreves – TANZANIA: Hundreds of Elephants Massacred

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A stockpile of 1,255 elephant tusks, the product of poaching, was found in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian capital, in what the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) called a dramatic wake-up call about the future of the African elephant.
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Havana Residents Face Risk of Cave-Ins

By Dalia Acosta and - -
Official reports state that 39 percent of Havana's 2.2 million residents live in structures that are in a mediocre or poor state of repair.
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What the FTAA Is Lacking

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Western Hemisphere trade treaty is taking shape as a framework without instruments for cooperation and lacks solutions for the environmental and labor problems of the poorest countries.
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Q & A: Coco Legrand

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Coco Legrand, Chile's most popular comic, loves nature and animals. And he is worried because “we live in an inhospitable world where there are agglomerations, not cities; consumers, not people; parking meters, not parks.”
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High Relief

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The mountains of the entire planet are the honorees of their own "International Year" in 2002. The United Nations has issued an appeal to involve institutions and individuals around the world in achieving a fundamental goal for the Earth's well-being: the sustainable development of its mountainous zones.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Green Plan Moves Ahead

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Nearly 300 hectares have been added to "Plan Verde", a project aimed at re-establishing the vegetation and ecosystems in the northeastern department of Cesar, one of the country's regions most affected by erosion.

Ecobreves – PERU: Turning Garbage into Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The first facility to turn organic waste into electricity in Peru and, according to its promoters, the first in Latin America, will be installed in 2003 in the Amazonian city of Iquitos, some 1,000 km northeast of Lima.

Ecobreves – ECUADOR: A Solution for Used Oil

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An agreement between the Telecommunications, Potable Water and Sewerage Enterprise (ETAPA) and the Pro-Environment Foundation, in the southern Ecuadorian city of Cuenca, is intended to foment a 40-percent increase in the collection of used motor oil, which is then disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Controversy Surrounds New Airport Plan

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Forty percent of the Mexican capital's residents surveyed believe that the five-year project to build a new airport, in the outlying area of Texcoco, will harm the environment, says a poll conducted by the Metropolitan Autonomous University.
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Brazil Awaits New Clones in 2002

By Mario Osava and - -
Vitoria was the first calf to be cloned in Brazil, but she will not be the last. At least six university research centers are working on cloning calves - any one of which could be born within the next few months as part of efforts to improve productivity in the agricultural sector.
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Ice at Large

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Icebergs are the frosty residents of Earth's enormous oceans. These pieces of glaciers float as they please and are the result of a fascinating - and occasionally dangerous - natural phenomenon.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Recycle Those Tires

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Brazilian industry this year must recycle a quantity of tires equivalent to 25 percent of the 45 million produced in this country, according to a resolution of the National Environmental Council (CONAMA), a rule that took effect January 1.
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