http://www.tierramerica.info/index_en.php Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:50:00 +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=3337 UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 8 (Tierramérica) - From death threats to aggressive discrediting in the press, disaster has hit the IPCC, the global scientific panel dedicated to studying climate change - and it is now finding ways to regroup and respond. Stephen Leahy <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=3338 RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 8 (Tierramérica) - The Caatinga, the only biome that is exclusively Brazilian and vulnerable due to its arid climate, lost 26,576 square kilometers of forest from 2002 to 2008, with just 53.6 percent of its original forest intact. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=3339 TEGUCIGALPA, Mar 8 (Tierramérica) - Officials from the government's Forest Conservation Institute (ICF) declared themselves incapable of controlling forest fires in Honduras, due to lack of human and logistical resources. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=3340 BUENOS AIRES, Mar 8 (Tierramérica) - The Argentine Environmental Defense Foundation issued an alert about the removal of toxic materials from an abandoned vegetable oil production plant in the central province of Córdoba. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=3341 MEXICO CITY, Mar 8 (Tierramérica) - A hundred sustainable producers will gather Mar. 13 at Ecofest, the first eco-festival in the Mexican capital, with the goal of promoting consumption of ecological products. <mgutierrez@ips.org> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100