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D'Ávila Ferreira, environment secretary for the Brazilian state of Amazonas. - Courtesy of SDS

“Amazonas State Is in the Environmental Vanguard”

By Mario Osava and - -
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 – CUBA: New Biological Rodent Poison

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts from Cuba's Plant Sciences Research Institute have created a new biological product for fighting rodents that attack crops, institute scientist Pedro Pablo Mora told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Edible Oil Waste to Fuel Buses

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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.
Sample collected at a sperm bank - Photo Stock

Free Rein for Biobanks

By Emilio Godoy and - -
Collections of human biological material, such as embryos, semen, blood cells and body tissue, are multiplying in a context of largely unregulated operations.
HIV developing in a human cell. - Public domain

Safe Sex With AIDS and Without a Condom?

By Daniela Estrada and - -
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

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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 – MEXICO: Eye On Climate Change and Renewable Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A scientific report, entrusted to the Veracruzana University of Mexico, will measure the impact of climate change on renewable energy.
Jericoá rapids in the Volta Grande zone of the Xingú River. - Courtesy of Monti Aguirre, International Rivers

Small Hydroelectric Dams Not So Green

By Mario Osava and - -
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 – VENEZUELA: Caribbean Brings Garbage to Shores of Tortuga Island

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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.
Dr. Pedro Cahn leaves the presidency of the International AIDS Society in the hands of another Argentine - Courtesy of the IAS

“There Are Seven Million People Who Lack AIDS Treatment

By Marcela Valente and - -
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 – CHILE: Illegal Logging in Native Forest Under Investigation

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Date Set for Withdrawal of Canadian Mine

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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

By IPS Correspondents and - -
An apparatus made from discarded plastic containers provides hot water, making use of the abundant solar energy of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná.
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto - Courtesy of the interviewee

“Cancún’s White Sands Wouldn’t Exist Without Coral”

By Stephen Leahy and - -
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 – ARGENTINA: More Grassfires

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Uruguayan Thermoelectric Plant Faces Criticism

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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 – LATIN AMERICA: Tierramérica Launches International Center

By IPS Correspondents and - -
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.
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