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Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Women Defend Coastal Wetland

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Dozens of women from the town of Tacarigua, 80 kilometers from Caracas and located within the boundaries of a 39,000-hectare national park, have begun a project for collecting and recycling garbage.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Natural Insecticide Production Gets a Boost

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A Havana cooperative, beneficiary of the Global Environment Facility's Small Grants Program, is planning an increase in natural insecticide production in order to supply several Cuban provinces.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Delay in Carrying Out Environmental Ruling

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Nearly three years after Chile's Supreme Court ordered a business owner in the central region of Valparaíso to restore a native forest that had been replaced by a vineyard, the government's forest agency, CONAF, is conducting an appraisal of the site.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Renewable Energy Classes

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran government has organized training sessions about the production and use of renewable energy, ahead of implementing a series of energy projects in the country's interior over the next six
Where space garbage comes from Credit:

SCIENCE: Littering the Cosmos

By Maricel Drazer
Tonnes of space garbage is orbiting the Earth and posing serious threats to active satellites and manned space missions, and to astronauts when they conduct space walks outside of their ships.

Ecobreves – CLIMATE CHANGE: Cold Debate in Bonn

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The first of the five special meeting this year towards achieving a new climate change agreement failed to advance in terms of commitments for reducing emissions that cause global warming.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Fire for Cooking Also Generates Electricity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A Brazilian company is selling an efficient wood-burning stove that, in addition to cooking, generates electricity, which could be a boon to Brazilian families living in isolated areas, especially in the Amazon.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Mapping Vulnerable Zones

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran government presented the first risk and vulnerability map of the country, distributed to local and environmental authorities. The map will serve in making decisions about measures for preventing damage during the rainy season, which begins in May.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Phone-In Complaints about River Polluters

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The environmental group Greenpeace of Argentina set up a phone number for anonymous denunciations of illegal runoff into the basin of the Riachuelo, Argentina's most polluted river, which runs through the south of the city of Buenos Aires.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Lawsuits Against Obligatory School Busing

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Parents of schoolchildren in the Mexican capital are using legal action to fight obligatory school busing, ordered by the city government as a means to clear up traffic and scheduled to begin in September.
Marco Zapata on the shrinking Pastoruri Glacier in the Blanca range in the Andes. - Courtesy of Marco Zapata

In Peru, Water Isn't For Everyone

By Blanca Rosales, IPS, and - -
The frozen treasure of Peru's glaciers is melting away, leaving the population facing a dry future.
Where space garbage comes from. - ESA

Littering the Cosmos

By Maricel Drazer and - -
European scientists are proposing the controlled removal of thousands of dangerous pieces of space debris in the Earth's orbit by sending up robotized missions.
Maize kernels in the hands of a Cuban farmer Credit: Patricia Grogg/IPS

AGRICULTURE: GM Maize Finds Its Way to Cuba’s Fields

By Patricia Grogg
With little fanfare, genetically modified maize produced by Cuba's genetic and biotechnology engineering centre, CIGB, is being grown on test plots as part of a new project involving five of the Caribbean island nation's provinces.

Bartering Is Not Your Usual Trade

By Gabriela Cerioli, IPS, and - -
The exchange of goods and services without involving money rises and falls in Argentina in inverse proportion to national prosperity, and is apparently far from sinking in the stormy waters of the globalized economy.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Cyanide Spill Under Investigation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Honduran Government Prosecutor's Office announced an exhaustive investigation into the causes of a cyanide spill in the Lara River, which supplies water to several communities in the western department of Copán.
Corn kernels in the hands of a Cuban farmer. - Patricia Grogg/IPS

Genetically Modified Maize Finds Its Way to Cuba's Fields

By Patricia Grogg and - -
With little fanfare, genetically modified maize produced by Cuba's genetic and biotechnology engineering center, CIGB, is being grown on test plots as part of a new project involving five of the Caribbean island's provinces.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Environmental Education Travels by Truck

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A white truck carrying books, toys, videos and ecologists is promoting the organization of eco-brigades in Venezuela's primary schools, focusing on fourth, fifth and sixth grade students.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Foreign Experts Examine Energy Matrix

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Ten experts from the International Energy Agency (IEA) visited Chile as part of an in-depth study being conducted of the country's energy situation and policies.
Ringed seal in the Baltic Sea Credit: Photo Stock

CLIMATE CHANGE: Seals in the Baltic Left without Ice

By Julio Godoy
Ringed seals in the Baltic Sea are finding fewer and fewer ice caves in which to raise their young. Rising global temperatures are the problem, and in turn are depleting the main food source of the giant polar bear, say scientists.
Economist John Nash Credit: Patricia da Cámara, Courtesy of the World Bank

CLIMATE CHANGE: Going Beyond the Carbon Market

By Dario Montero
With an incisive report in hand about what awaits Latin America and the Caribbean in the future if action is not taken to fight climate change, economist John Nash defends the role of the World Bank and underscores the need to expand the so-called "clean development mechanism".

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Medications via Nanoparticles

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Researchers in Mexico have encapsulated pharmaceuticals in microscopic nanoparticles, allowing the medications to be delivered with greater precision to the ill part of the body, without the secondary effects of conventional therapies.
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