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Mining protest march in Bartica, Guyana. - Jules Gibson/IPS

Pro-Forest Measures Anger Guyana's Miners

By Bert Wilkinson and - -
The Guyanese government and miners are at loggerheads, with the Amazon forest - and its wealth in minerals and its role in fighting climate change - at the center of the dispute.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Promoting Bicycle Use

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fans of cycling are applauding the launch on Feb. 15 of a program to promote bicycle use in one area of the Mexican capital, but they are asking the city government for more support for this transportation alternative.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires 'Lung' Threatened

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Without management or a budget, the most important public park in the Argentine capital is falling apart, due to the increase in its commercial use.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Naturally Protected Foods

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A natural film has many advantages over plastic sheets that it can replace in protecting food, especially fruit. The film is made of edible material, from proteins extracted from maize, wheat and other plants.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Organics at a Global Fair

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Seven companies, most of them consisting of peasant and indigenous farmers, will represent Honduras at BioFach 2010, an international fair of organic products taking place Feb. 17-20 in Nuremberg, Germany.
The Canadian hemlock, one of the tree species planted in an experimental forest in Germany. Credit: Scott Detwiler

CLIMATE-GERMANY: Planting the Forest of the Future

By Julio Godoy
Exotic tree seedlings grow next to native species in the southeastern German village of Laufen, at a site where researchers are experimenting with ways to restore forests lost to the effects of global warming.
Urban encroachment on the Amazon Credit: Public domain

BIODIVERSITY: The Amazon Is Not Eternal

By Stephen Leahy
The Amazon jungle "is very close to a tipping point," and if destruction continues, it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65 years, warns Thomas Lovejoy, world-renowned tropical biologist.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Solar Field in the Desert

By IPS Correspondents and - -
More than 130,000 solar panels will make up the first photovoltaic plant in the middle of Chile's Atacama Desert. Construction is to begin in the coming months.
Urban expansion into the Amazon. - Public domain.

The Amazon Is Not Eternal

By Stephen Leahy and - -
The Amazonian apocalypse is just around the corner, according to scientists gathered at the conference launching the International Year of Biodiversity.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Protests Against Landfill

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Mayor Rosiris Orozco and residents of La Concepción, a municipality near Maracaibo, 500 km west of Caracas, have asked Venezuela's Environment Ministry to shut down La Ciénaga sanitary landfill, which receives 100 trucks filled with garbage each day.
The Canadian hemlock, one of the tree species planted in an experimental forest in Germany. - Scott Detwiler

Planting the Future Forest

By Julio Godoy and - -
The urgent need to reforest its national territory has led German officials to search around the world - including the Bolivian Andes - for tree species that are resistant to climate change.

Ecobreves – CUBA: More Trees in Havana

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Cuban capital benefited in 2009 from the planting of more than 33,000 trees. But government officials and ecologists point to the low survival rate of the new trees.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: New Photovoltaic Technology

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Researchers at the Pontificate Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul have developed a technique - which until now Brazil had to import - for transforming solar energy into electricity.

CUBA: Zeolite, Mineral of a Thousand Uses

By Patricia Grogg
Cuba, which has major reserves of zeolite, aims to boost exploitation of the mineral, whose properties and uses in products and technologies contribute to protecting the environment.
Tim Jackson: "The climate treaty wasn't the only thing that failed in Copenhagen." Credit: Stephen Leahy/IPS

Q&A: Rage and the Economics of the Environment

By Stephen Leahy
"Rage is sometimes the appropriate response" to the failure of the world's leaders to craft a new climate treaty at the Copenhagen summit, says British economist Tim Jackson.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: A Biodegradable Future

By IPS Correspondents and - -
As they become more widely produced, biodegradable plastics will replace synthetic polymers, Angel Romo, researcher at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), told Tierramérica.

Rage and the Economics of the Environment

By Stephen Leahy and - -
"The continued pursuit of growth endangers the ecosystems on which we depend for long-term survival," says the British economist, ferocious critic of the Copenhagen Accord on climate change.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Coral in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Increasing acidity in the waters off the Caribbean coast - an effect of global warming - is hurting the coral reefs of the Islas de la Bahía, report officials from the Honduran Secretariat of Environment.
Natrolite, one of many types of zeolite. - Photo Stock

Zeolite, Mineral of a Thousand Uses

By Patricia Grogg and - -
The versatility, abundance and low cost of zeolite make it a valuable tool for agriculture and other economic sectors in Cuba.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Biodiesel Beats Goal by Three Years

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Diesel fuel used in Brazil is a five-percent mix of biofuel as of January 1 this year, reaching the goal set by the National Biofuel Program, begun in 2005, three years ahead of time. Until now, the mix was three percent.
General Carrera Lake in Chile. Credit: Public Domain

CHILE: Water a Matter of National Security

By Daniela Estrada
In its proposed constitutional reform, the Chilean government recognises that the availability of freshwater is a matter of national security. Environmentalists applaud the initiative, but some business groups are worried it will hurt their bottom line.
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