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Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Edible Oil Waste to Fuel Buses
Biodiesel distilled from edible oil waste from restaurants and households will fuel 18 buses in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, whose transportation system is an international model and award winner.Ecobreves – CHILE: Preparing First Fisheries and Aquiculture Census
From September 2008 to April 2009, Chile will conduct its first national fisheries and aquiculture census. The results will be ready by the end of next year.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Thousands of Children in Eco-Games
Some 15,000 children headed to 50 parks and zoos in Venezuela to start the 30th Ecological Games, which combine recreational activities with environmental education during two weeks of school vacation.
Bolivian Businesses Take On the Green Challenge
Sustainable development is put to the test in three productive experiences in Bolivia.
“Amazonas State Is in the Environmental Vanguard”
No public policy can be made without listening to the traditional peoples. It is they who preserve the environment, Nadia D'Ávila Ferreira, the top environmental official for Amazonas state, Brazil, says in this Tierramérica interview.Ecobreves – MEXICO: Eye On Climate Change and Renewable Energy
A scientific report, entrusted to the Veracruzana University of Mexico, will measure the impact of climate change on renewable energy.
Free Rein for Biobanks
Collections of human biological material, such as embryos, semen, blood cells and body tissue, are multiplying in a context of largely unregulated operations.
Safe Sex With AIDS and Without a Condom?
People who are HIV positive but who are undergoing antiretroviral therapy do not transmit the virus, said the top Swiss authority in HIV/AIDS. In most of the world, the statement sounded like permission to abandon the best protection against the epidemic: the condom.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Electric Motorcycle On the Horizon
The electric motorcycle will be able to travel one kilometer per one cent of the Brazilian real (.006 dollars). This super-efficient bike will enter its final testing phase this month and will be launched in 2009 by the Brazilian electric company CPFL.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Petrified Forest to Be National Park
Argentina’s parliament is studying a bill that would create a new national park in the southern province of Santa Cruz in order to preserve its unique petrified forest.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: No Justice for Murdered Ecologists
Environmental and human rights organizations in Honduras have sought measures from the Inter-American Human Rights court following the escape of three of the four policemen implicated in the murder of ecologists Heraldo Zúniga and Roger Iván Murillo.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Caribbean Brings Garbage to Shores of Tortuga Island
The sea is the vehicle for pollution of the islands of the southern Caribbean, even the nearly uninhabited ones like La Tortuga, located 150 kilometers northeast of the Venezuelan capital.
Small Hydroelectric Dams Not So Green
An attractive business with a reputation of being eco-friendly, small hydroelectric dams do pose some dangers to the environment, especially if there are many in the same river basin.Ecobreves – CHILE: Illegal Logging in Native Forest Under Investigation
The investigative police in Chile are looking into a report of illegal logging in a native forest for the construction of a road to a dam on the Cuervo River, a project of the Energía Austral company.
“There Are Seven Million People Who Lack AIDS Treatment
Three million people today receive treatment against AIDS. It was what the World Health Organization proposed for 2005, and we are achieving it with difficulty in 2008, but meanwhile there are seven million who lack treatment, says Argentina's Pedro Cahn, co-chair of the 17th International AIDS Conference.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Date Set for Withdrawal of Canadian Mine
The Honduran mining development agency announced the withdrawal, in one year, of the Entremares mining company, a subsidiary of Canada’s Glamis Gold, which launched operations in this country in 2000.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Recycled Plastic for Solar Water Heaters
An apparatus made from discarded plastic containers provides hot water, making use of the abundant solar energy of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná.Ecobreves – LATIN AMERICA: Tierramérica Launches International Center
IPS news agency, the United Nations Development Program, United Nations Environment Program and the World Bank on July 31 will celebrate the founding assembly of the Tierramérica International Center for Sustainable Development and Environmental Defense, in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus.Ecobreves – MEXICO: A Green Guide to Businesses and Services
An ecological guide will promote eco-friendly providers of goods and services in Mexico beginning in September.
The Climate Costs of a Glass of Milk
Pastures with plants that produce less methane and substances that inhibit the nitrogen-fixing of soils are among the solutions the livestock industry is testing in an effort to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: More Grassfires
The burning of weeds this month set off a new rash of fires in eight provinces of northeastern Argentina, the environmental group Fundación Proteger has charged.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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