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Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Stock Exchange Joins Fight Against Climate Change

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The São Paulo Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) have launched the Carbon Efficient Index (ICO2) to encourage companies to measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions.

Ecobreves – CHILE: New Actions Planned Against Mine Tailings Deposit

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Residents of the northern Chilean community of Caimanes are planning new actions to fight for the closure of the mine tailings deposit operated by the Chilean-Japanese mining company Los Pelambres.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Glacier Protection Law Suspended

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental organizations in Argentina are protesting the delays in the application of the law to protect glaciers passed in late September 2010.
The Fitzroy River Basin in Australia, Jan. 4, 2011. The flooded area appears in dark blue. - Courtesy of NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response

Climate Change Could Be Worsening Effects of El Niño and La Niña

By Stephen Leahy and - -
Scientists believe that global warming could be affecting the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate cycle, whose cold phase, La Niña, is already taking a toll on food production.
Alto Huayabamba, in San Martín, Peru. - AMPA

Local Communities Protect Their Amazon

By Milagros Salazar and - -
Residents and authorities of a Peruvian Amazon region take rainforest conservation into their own hands.
An African oil palm plantation in the Amazonian state of Pará. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS

BRAZIL: Climate Change Means New Crop Health Concerns

By Mario Osava
Farming around the globe, already reeling from drought, heat waves and major storms, will have to prepare for the new challenges that global warming will bring, especially in the form of pests and disease.
The San Juan River marks part of the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border. Credit: Courtesy of El Nuevo Diario

CENTRAL AMERICA: Threats Churn in the San Juan River

By José Adán Silva
The San Juan River, centre of discord and diplomatic conflicts between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, is seeing its riverbanks fill up with economic projects that scientists and environmentalists say will irreversibly alter its course.
There could be 100 million climate refugees in the next five to seven years, warns Leonardo Boff. Credit: Daniela Pastrana/IPS

Q&A: “This Time There Will Be No Noah’s Ark”

By Leonardo Boff and Daniela Pastrana
"The market is not going to resolve the environmental crisis," says theologian and environmentalist Leonardo Boff, professor at Brazil's State University of Rio de Janeiro. The solution, he says, lies in ethics and in changing our relationship with nature.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Innovative Octopus Farm Expands

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Mexican Mayab Mollusk Cooperative will expand its production of baby four-eyed octopus (Octopus maya) in order to expand its sales.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Free Bicycles in Buenos Aires

By IPS Correspondents and - -
To encourage the use of bicycles, the Buenos Aires city government this month made about 100 two-wheelers available to anyone interested.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Renewed Permit for Gas del Caribe

By IPS Correspondents and - -
After eight months of hearings, the Honduran Secretariat (ministry) of Environment and Natural Resources announced the two-year permit renewal for the controversial Mexican company Gas del Caribe, which operates in the Atlantic region of Omoa, in the Honduran northwest.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Shell of Amazon Fruit Replaces Flour in Bread

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A bread made from the shell of the cupuaçú (Theobroma grandiflorum), a typical fruit of the Amazon forest, was widely approved in a consumer test. This alternative product, developed by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), achieved a favorable rating from more than 90 percent of those surveyed.
African palm farms in the Amazonian state of Pará - Mario Osava/IPS

Climate Change Means New Crop Health Concerns

By Mario Osava and - -
Phytosanitary problems could see dramatic changes in the coming decades as a result of climate change. A Brazilian project is dedicated to researching the possibilities and providing solutions.
There could be 100 million climate refugees in the next five or seven years, warns Boff. - Daniela Pastrana/IPS

“This Time There Will Be No Noah's Ark”

By Leonardo Boff, Daniela Pastrana, and - -
The collective duty of humanity is to seek a balance with nature. Everyone has to do their part; be more with less. The problem is not money, says Brazilian Leonardo Boff in this exclusive Tierramérica interview.
A view of San Juan River. - Courtesy of El Nuevo Diario

Threats Churn in the San Juan River

By José Adán Silva and - -
The conflict between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over the San Juan River masks a series of endeavors with the potential to damage this valuable natural resource.
Gabriela Borges holds up the bottle that helped replace disposable cups at her school. Credit: Clarinha Glock/IPS

BRAZIL: ‘Green’ Schools Flourish in Porto Alegre

By Clarinha Glock
Living sustainably can be learned. That is the idea championed by two schools in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, where students are learning to become environmental citizens of the new millennium.
A load of fresh fish near Pisco, Peru. Credit: Photo Stock

Legal Shortcuts Trap the Peruvian Anchovy

By Milagros Salazar
Exports of fishmeal made from Peruvian anchoveta, or anchovy (Engraulis ringens), is so lucrative that fishers have sought -- and found -- legal shortcuts to obtain permits that would have been impossible through formal channels. This practice is exhausting even the contingency stock that the government had set aside.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Most Support Environmentalism, But Few Practice

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Although 59 percent of the Brazilians surveyed said that preserving the environment is more important than ensuring economic growth, just 18 percent considered it their personal duty.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: IDB Supports Programs to Fight Climate Change

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will make 30 million dollars available in loans for developing renewable energy in Honduras.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: On Alert at El Ávila National Park

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Venezuelan environmentalists sounded the alarm when President Hugo Chávez announced the partial "deallocation" of El Ávila national Park, which extends over 85,100 hectares in the mountains between Caracas and the Caribbean, in order to build housing on the mountainsides facing the sea.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Growing Opposition to Mining in the North

By IPS Correspondents and - -
"Every day there are more organizations" that oppose the expansion of major mining in the northern Andean region of Chile, due to its harm to glaciers and water sources, activist Mauricio Ríos, of the Northern Environmental Network (RAN), told Tierramérica.
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