http://www.tierramerica.info/index_en.php Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:56:04 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/logo_TAeng.gif http://www.tierramerica.info/ 100 42 www.tierramerica.info es mgutierrez@ips.org(Miren Gutirrez) wgarcia@ips.org(Walter Garcia) 60 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=2781 SANTIAGO, Jun 30 (Tierramérica) - More than one million tourists will go whale watching this year in Latin American waters, an activity that is exciting for the public and profitable for tour operators. Daniela Estrada* <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=2782 LIMA, Jun 30 (Tierramérica) - The violent tensions arising from the mining boom in Peru could move from the mountains to the Amazon jungles, warn officials, activists and indigenous leaders. Milagros Salazar* <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=2783 SANTIAGO, Jun 30 (Tierramérica) - Nobody is negotiating or making concessions ahead of deadline, says Raúl Estrada Oyuela, one of the authors of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, in this exclusive column for Tierramérica. Raúl Estrada-Oyuela* <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=2784 MEXICO CITY, Jun 30 (Tierramérica) - Mexican scientists are researching different types of fungus that kill harmful insects without hurting the environment. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=2785 RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 30 (Tierramérica) - 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. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=2786 TEGUCIGALPA, Jun 30 (Tierramérica) - The Honduran government plans to sign a contract at year end with a U.S. company to generate the first 100 megawatts of wind energy in this Central American country, in the southern region of Cerro de Hula. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=2787 BUENOS AIRES, Jun 30 (Tierramérica) - The vulnerabilities of the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) to climate change were the subject of debate by meteorologists and environmentalists gathered in the Argentine capital. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100