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Ecobreves – MEXICO: Illegal Timber Reaches the Government

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Part of the tables, shelves and other wooden objects that the government of Mexico purchases -- this year for a total of some 180 million dollars -- comes from forests that were logged illegally, charge environmentalists.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: The Better to Recycle With

By IPS Correspondents and - -
With the aim of sharing experiences in urban recycling policies, Latin American officials, business leaders, academics and activists met recently in Buenos Aires.
Some substances both damage the ozone layer and contribute to the greenhouse effect. - PiccoloNamek

Ozone Treaty Cools Down Global Warming

By Stephen Leahy and - -
The United States was the protagonist in talks for moving faster to eliminate gases that damage the atmospheric ozone layer and aggravate climate change.
Algae carry out photosynthesis and absorb carbon dioxide - Photo Stock

Algae Against Climate Change?

By Julio Godoy, IPS, and - -
Scientists are testing the capacity of algae to absorb carbon dioxide and to produce from their own biomass a fuel that is less polluting than gasoline.
Cuban girls cleaning up a beach. - Julio Haedo

Ecobreves – CUBA: Kids and Adults in Nature Clean-Up

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Hundreds of people in Cuba took part in the campaign "To Clean the World", sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program, reforesting and cleaning up coastal areas.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Mapuches Denounce Government at the UN

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Chilean government should turn in the report about the denunciation presented by ecologists and Mapuche Indians of the central region of Araucanía "if it wants to hold a post in 2008 on the UN Human Rights Council."

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: A Plan to Save the Amphibians

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Scientific and environmental institutions drafted a plan to protect the 320 species of toads, frogs and salamanders (five percent of the world's total) that live in Venezuela.
Recent deforestation in the Amazon. - Photo Stock

Amazon Logging Means Short-Lived Prosperity

By IPS and - -
Life in the Amazon is marked by waves of ephemeral bonanza followed by depression, says a study of economic, environmental and social indicators from the last three decades.
Lake Moraine, in Canada's Alberta province. - Photo Stock

Canada Losing Water Through NAFTA

By Stephen Leahy and - -
Water resources are being negotiated in the North American integration process. Experts warn that Canada will come out the loser in this deal.

Ecobreves – GLOBAL: Ozone Protocol Also Curbs Climate Change

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Twenty years after the Montreal Protocol entered into force, United Nations officials are celebrating the fact that this pact has gone beyond its objective of protecting the atmospheric ozone layer to reducing emissions of gases that cause climate change.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Dolphins Mistreated and Killed in Captivity

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Corruption and complicity of authorities allows some 20 dolphin aquariums to operate in Mexico, with more than half dying prematurely from pneumonia, stress and trauma from beatings.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Sugarcane Doesn't Need the Amazon

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The ethanol fuel boom is driving the expansion of sugarcane plantations in Roraima, Brazil's northernmost state, because of its stable climate and flat terrain -- ideal for mechanized harvest.

Ecobreves – CUBA: The Return of a Natural Pool

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A natural pool, Los Cangilones, along the Máximo River in the central Cuban province of Camagüey, will once again receive bathers year-round, after being rescued from contamination from the waste of a nearby fish farm.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Sea Turtles Faithful to Their Beaches

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) that was marked with a metal plate three years ago has returned to lay eggs in Macuro, on the northeastern Venezuelan peninsula of Paria.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Agro-industry's Own Environmental Research Center

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The main entities of Brazil's agricultural-industrial sector announced last week the creation of ARES, the Institute for Responsible Agribusiness.
The destruction from 1998's Hurricane Mitch still hurts in Honduras. - Photo Stock.

Small Improvements in Hurricane Preparedness

By Thelma Mejía, IPS, and - -
The aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 marked the beginning of some protection efforts in Honduras, but there is not yet a national policy for reducing the country's vulnerability to hurricanes.
Harvested rice paddies in Yangshuo, southern China. - Photo Stock

Global Warming Fuels Chinese Inflation

By Antoaneta Bezlova and - -
A persistent drought threatens the harvest of grains in China, driving up food prices.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Warning on Salmon Farms in Earthquake Zone

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The environmental group Oceana has urged the Chilean government to take a cautionary attitude in taking a decision to renew authorization for raising salmon in floating cages in the Aysén fjord, 1,600 km south of the capital.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Reforesting the Capital's “Lungs”

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Fruit and timber trees -- 300,000 of them -- have been planted over the past two years on Juan A. Laínez hill, once one of the Honduran capital's main green spaces, and environmental "lungs".
Young sugarcane in Rio Verde. - Mario Osava/IPS

Brazilian Ethanol Divides Agro-Industry

By Mario Osava, IPS, and - -
The "green tsunami" must be stopped, say leaders in Brazil's agribusiness sector, worried by the advance of sugarcane plantations to feed the demand for fuel alcohol.
Magellanic penguins in Patagonia. - Photo Stock

Argentina Creates Its First Marine Park

By Marcela Valente and - -
The marine and coastal park of Argentina's southern Patagonia will protect biological and economic wealth, but will not completely ban its exploitation.
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