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Saturday, November 7, 2026
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“Cancún’s White Sands Wouldn’t Exist Without Coral”
Coral reefs are in trouble, but they could buy some time with good management and protection, while we work to find ways to reduce the impacts of climate change, says Mexican scientist Roberto Iglesias-Prieto in this exclusive Tierramérica interview.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Uruguayan Thermoelectric Plant Faces Criticism
Environmentalists are fighting Uruguay’s plans to build a coal-fired electrical plant to generate 350 megawatts in Candiota, a town in southern Brazil near the Uruguayan border.Ecobreves – CUBA: Electricity from Garbage
A biogas plant with the capacity to process 21 tons of urban waste daily will be inaugurated in September in Havana. The methane gas produced will be enough to generate 60 kilowatts of energy per hour.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Capital Is Home to 320 Bird Species
The metropolitan area of Caracas, with 1.5 million vehicles and four million people who generate five million kilograms of waste per day, continues to serve as habitat for 320 species of birds, a quarter of the national total.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Amazon Biodiesel for Electricity
Thousands of communities throughout the Brazilian Amazon will have access to electricity as the result of biodiesel made from the oil of the tucumán, a native palm tree.
Ingenuity at the Service of Sustainable Business
Businesses of all kinds in Latin America are setting their sights on the pillars of sustainable development: creation of wealth, respect for the environment, and social equality.
War on Pigeons
Pigeons have become a serious environmental problem in many cities. Experts warn that allowing hunting to reduce their numbers is not enough.
Internet Can Be a Dangerous Pharmacy
Medications that have been stolen or falsified, are expired, or sold without a doctor's prescription are the reality of the online pharmacy.
“Reproductive Rights Can Overcome the Conservative Wave”
Access to birth control is in keeping with the rights of women and helps keep population growth in check, making development policies more feasible and improving food security, says family planning expert Carmen Barroso in this Tierramérica interview.Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Detox Bacteria Discovered
Research conducted in Argentina has proved that some bacteria are capable of breaking down and detoxifying otherwise polluting liquid waste from tanneries and paper, textile and chemical industries.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Free Refrigerator Replacement
Brazilian electricity companies are donating more than 30,000 new refrigerators each year to poor families as part of the national plan to eliminate chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which damage the Earth's ozone layer.Ecobreves – MEXICO: Kids Sign Charter Against Global Warming
In the schools of the state of Mexico, neighboring Mexico City, there is a charter circulating in which the students commit themselves to 24 actions aimed at halting global climate change.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Climate Threatens Food Production
Excessive rainfall in some areas and prolonged drought in other areas of Honduras threaten agricultural production and food supplies, warn farmers and the International Monetary Fund.Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Exotic Plague Advances
The "ácaro rojo" (Raoiella indica), an insect measuring just 0.3 millimeters, has devastated several hundred hectares planted with coconut palms on Venezuela's northwest and northeast coast, reports the government's autonomous agricultural health service.Ecobreves – CHILE: Uniting Against Salmon Farms
Business leaders, artisanal fishers, tourism operators, students and citizen organizations in Puerto Natales, in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes, have created the Salmon-Farm Free Patagonia Association.Ecobreves – CUBA: Regional Network for Sustainable Forests
Cuba officially joined the Regional Network of Model Forests of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC-Net) on Jul. 5 through a project to cultivate tropical plants on 30,000 hectares in the central province of Villa Clara.Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Fighting Chagas Disease
Honduras is working with Canada to put together 60 million dollars in funding for ecological and health projects in areas where Chagas disease is endemic. The illness has spread from rural areas to urban areas of the capital.
Indians Close Ranks Against Dams in the Amazon
Between Bolivia's uncertainty and Brazil's haste, the Madera River Hydroelectric Complex is advancing -- and the alarm is sounding among indigenous communities and environmental activists in the two countries.
Afro-Brazilian Communities Recover Juçara Palm
Residents of what were once communities escaped slaves known as "quilombos" in Brazil are no longer cutting down the juçara palm to extract its tasty heart, and are seeking other ways to make their livelihood from this tree.Ecobreves – MEXICO: Studying Fungus as Insecticide
Mexican scientists are researching different types of fungus that kill harmful insects without hurting the environment.Ecobreves – BRAZIL: A Promise Not to Buy Amazon Soybeans
Supermarket chains and the vegetable oil industry in Brazil have promised for another year not to purchase soybeans grown in recently deforested areas of the Amazon.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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