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Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Alternative Fertilizers to Fight Inflation
The Brazilian government has decided to set aside 4.8 million dollars to develop alternative fertilizers, given the brutal hike in prices of conventional fertilizers.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Massacre of American Rhea
An environmental group in Argentina has denounced the massacre in recent weeks of several hundred ñandú, or American rhea, a cousin of the ostrich that is increasingly threatened in the central province of Córdoba due to the expansion of soybean cultivation.
Courts the Battleground for Fight Against Brazil’s Paper Mills
The massive resistance against building up an international-scale paper industry in Brazil has shifted to the judicial arena.
Climate Change Imposes New Conditions for Policy
If the raw material export sector and the governments of Latin America insist on depredatory productive systems, it will be unlikely that natural resources will be able to sustain future development, writes Chilean environmental leader Sara Larraín in this exclusive column for Tierramérica.Environmental Sustainability at a Crossroads
Latin America needs new sources of wealth and of employment, but sustainable development will require increasingly greater environmentally clean economic expansion, write Ricardo Sánchez, regional director of the UN Environment Program, and Mexican social development expert Enrique Provencio.
ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Click Here to Plant a Tree
It has become fashionable in Latin America to pursue initiatives towards "zero carbon", neutralising the climate-changing greenhouse gases produced by industry, commercial aviation and even the football World Cup - and along with it, atoning for the environmental sins of polluters.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: New Environmental Rules Announced
The Honduran government has announced new environmental regulations two years after the free trade agreement with the United States, known as CAFTA, entered into force.
Click Here to Plant a Tree
The wave of ideas for mitigating the impacts of carbon emissions of consumers has its commercial side, but the bottom line is that it mobilizes people to join the fight against climate change.
Progress Towards Protecting La Tortuga Island
A legislative modification would help protect the uninhabited Venezuelan island of La Tortuga, which holds rare Caribbean ecosystems.Ecobreves – CHILE: Demand for Dioxin Information
The EcoOceans Center, the Latin American Environmental Conflicts Observatory (OLCA) and the Citizen Consumers League have called on all Chileans to abstain from eating pork during the national holidays of Sep. 18-19.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Flower Covers Vital Reservoir
The "bora" (eichhornia crassipes), is a species of tropical water hyacinth that has spread like a green carpet over two-thirds of La Mariposa reservoir in Venezuela. The reservoir covers 54 hectares and has a capacity of 8 million liters, which supplies most of the Venezuelan capital.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: African Palm to Reforest the Amazon
An agreement between Brazil's ministries of Agriculture and Environment authorizes utilizing the African palm (Elaeis guineensis) and other exotic species for recuperating forests in the country's Amazon region.
MEXICO: Peasants Seek Ways to Block Canadian-Run Mine
The Canadian mining corporation Minefinders has explored a rural area of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua for 14 years. But as it gets ready to begin mining gold and silver there, its plans are threatened by peasant farmers' protests.
ENVIRONMENT: Amazon Increasingly Oily
More than 180 oil and natural gas fields extend across the western Amazon, shared by five South American countries and threatening biodiversity and indigenous lands, warns a study by U.S.-based organisations.
Amazon Increasingly Oily
Oil and natural gas exploration permits are multiplying in the Amazon region, especially in its most remote and biodiverse corners, say researchers.
Mexican Peasants Seek Ways to Block Canadian-Run Mine
In the Western Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, a very common conflict these days in Latin America is heating up: the booming mining industry versus local residents.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: São Paulo Sets Climate Change Goals
The city government of São Paulo, Brazil's most populous city, has set a goal to reduce municipal emissions of greenhouse gases by 30 percent, with a deadline of 2012 -- ahead of the federal government's target date.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Universities Commit to the Environment
The 20 universities in Honduras signed an environmental pledge on Aug. 18 that includes reforms in their programs and greater participation in managing threatening situations, research and policies.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Justice Orders Demolition of Embankment in Wetland Preserve
The Forestal Andina company received an order from the justice department of the northern Argentine province of Corrientes to demolish immediately the 27-kilometer embankment it built in the Esteros del Iberá ecological preserve.Ecobreves – MEXICO: More Traffic Restrictions, Better Air Quality
The inclusion of Saturdays in the Mexican capital's program for limiting the circulation of certain cars to certain days has made a notable improvement in air quality.
Bolivian Businesses Take On the Green Challenge
Sustainable development is put to the test in three productive experiences in Bolivia.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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