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Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Armed Forces Reforest 11,000 Hectares

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The “green battalions” made up by more than 1,000 members of the Honduran Armed Forces have planted 11,404 hectares of forests in the last five years.
Figure of Ah Puch, the god of death, mother-of-pearl mosaic with jade and pyrite incrustations, A.D. 500-800, found in Topoxté, Petén. Credit: Julio Godoy/IPS

Q&A: Mighty Maya Cities Succumbed to Environmental Crisis

By Julio Godoy
The latest archeological findings in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala lend further credence to the theory that the Maya civilisation that once flourished there was brought down by environmental causes such as deforestation.
Giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) in Bolivia's Moxos plains. Credit: Photostock

BOLIVIA: Rainforest Road Will Have Environmental and Cultural Impacts

By Franz Chávez
A richly biodiverse rainforest the size of 3,000 soccer fields in central Bolivia will be the first victim of the road planned to run through the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), say environmental activists.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Assessing the Impacts of Global Warming on Marine Life

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Brazilian non-governmental organization Proyecto Coral Vivo (Live Coral Project) is carrying out a research program called Marine Mesocosms to study the impacts of global warming on sea life.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: NGO to Protect Endangered Hummingbird

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The non-governmental Association for Research for Environmental and Socioeconomic Development has been tasked by the Honduran government with ensuring the protection of the Honduran Emerald (Amazilia luciae), a species of hummingbird unique to northern Honduras.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Activists Challenge Land Management Plan

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental organizations in Argentina are demanding that the land management plan adopted by the northeastern province of Corrientes be declared unconstitutional, because it threatens native forests.
Giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) in the Moxos plains, Bolivia. - Photostock

Highway Through Rainforest Will Have Both Environmental and Cultural Impacts

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The pristine rainforests of the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park are threatened with destruction by a planned new highway.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: The Search for Biofuel Sources

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mexico’s National Institute for Forestry, Agricultural and Livestock Research (INIFAP) is studying different plant species for potential biofuel production.
Figure of Ah Puch, the god of death, mother-of-pearl mosaic with jade and pyrite incrustations, A.D. 500-800, found in Topoxté, Petén. - Julio Godoy/IPS

Mighty Maya Cities in Petén Succumbed to Environmental Crisis

By Julio Godoy and - -
The example of the Mayas in Petén, who destroyed the soil and forests through intensive agriculture and a love of opulence, should lead us to reflect on the consequences of excessive consumption, says archeologist Richard Hansen in this interview.
Petit-Goâve camp resident Louise Delva points to the riverbed which she and others use as an open latrine. - Courtesy of Haiti Grassroots Watch

Haiti: 'Abandoned Like Stray Dogs'

By Correspondents and - -
Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the 2010 Haitian earthquake continue to endure horrific conditions in makeshift camps with little hope of improvement in sight, as revealed by this investigative report to which Tierramérica was given exclusive access.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Oil Upgrading Plant Blamed for Health Problems

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Soot from the coke and sulfur produced as byproducts of crude oil upgrading at the Jose industrial complex, in the eastern Venezuelan municipality of Peñalver, is polluting the air and affecting the health of humans, animals and plants in the surrounding areas, say local NGOs.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Forests Near Sugar Cane Fields Boost Carbon Capture

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Preserving forests located in the midst of sugar cane plantations helps reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by these monoculture plantations, according to a team of researchers at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: First Graduates in Environmental Risk Management

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The first 68 specialists in natural disaster risk management, prevention and recovery have graduated from the public National University of Honduras, as part of efforts to build capacity in order to reduce the vulnerability of this Central American nation.
Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) forest in Honduras. Credit: User:BotBln –Creative Commons Licence

Fragmented Efforts to Save Honduran Mangroves

By Thelma Mejía
A mix of local and international initiatives are aimed at saving the mangrove forests and other coastal wetlands of Honduras, home to an abundance of marine life and a natural protective barrier against hurricanes, which have shrunk by over 80 percent on the Caribbean coast and almost a third on the Pacific coast.
Opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline is building in the United States. Credit: Courtesy of Friends of the Earth US

NORTH AMERICA: Keystone XL: A Pipeline to Europe?

By Stephen Leahy
The promoters of Keystone XL, a huge new oil pipeline from northern Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, claim that it will reduce U.S. reliance on oil imports from unfriendly countries.
Opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline is building in the United States. - Courtesy of Friends of the Earth US

Keystone XL: A Pipeline to Europe?

By Stephen Leahy and - -
The proposed Keystone XL Canada-U.S. oil pipeline could play a key role in exporting Canadian tar sands crude to Europe.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Wastewater Treatment Residue Used in Concrete

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A technique that uses the residue left over from wastewater treatment in the production of concrete has been developed by the São Carlos School of Engineering at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Film Fest Aims to Raise Environmental Awareness

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A short film competition will kick off the second Buenos Aires Green Film Fest, a showcase for international cinema on environmental themes, beginning this Aug. 25.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Public Consultation on Hotel Project Demanded

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA) and Los Cabos Coastkeeper have called on the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources to hold a public consultation on the construction of a tourism complex in the northwestern state of Baja California Sur.
Colorful fall foliage of lenga trees (Nothofagus pumilio) in Cerro Catedral, Argentina. Credit: Fernando López-Anido - Creative Commons License

New Scientific Network on Climate Change Adaptation

By Milagros Salazar
In Central America the temperature is rising and forests are taking longer to grow, while farther south, the Amazon rainforests have yet to feel the effects of global warming. This is just one example of how climate change is manifested differently in different parts of the region.
Life forms react in surprising ways to pressures of all kinds, says transgender biologist Brigitte Baptiste. Credit: Juan José Carrillo/IPS

Q&A: “Climate Change Is Affecting Traditional Knowledge”

By Constanza Vieira
The traditional knowledge of nature developed since ancestral times by Colombia’s indigenous peoples is increasingly challenged by the unnatural effects of climate change, a phenomenon that is deeply troubling to the keepers of this knowledge, says biologist Brigitte Baptiste.
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