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Por José Adán Silva Indigenous communities in northern Nicaragua are demanding that the authorities take urgent action to halt the attacks on their lives and territory by illegal invaders. |
Por Patricia Grogg In Cuba there are 577 communities exposed to flooding due to a rising sea level and increasingly intense hurricanes. |
Por Desmond Brown The arrival in the Caribbean of Asian lionfish, which initially escaped from an aquarium in Florida, is considered the worst marine invasion in history. |
Por correspondents* Backroom deals, legally questionable “memorandums”, and test drilling carried out with no public scrutiny and little government oversight are all part of the new gold rush in Haiti. |
Por Danilo Valladares The Maya Biosphere Reserve, a natural and archeological wonder of the world, is threatened by drug trafficking, human trafficking, land invasions, livestock farming and logging. |
Por Correspondents* - Tierramérica/Haiti Grassroots Watch Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the 2010 Haitian earthquake continue to endure horrific conditions in makeshift camps with little hope of improvement in sight, as revealed by this investigative report to which Tierramérica was given exclusive access. |
Por Thelma Mejía * Threats to the survival of mangrove forests in Honduras range from oil palm plantations to drug trafficking. |
Por Emilio Godoy Inside and outside the World Bank, new and better ways are being sought to measure the social and environmental consequences of the financing provided by the multilateral institution. |
Por Danilo Valladares The world steel industry has set its sights on the iron sands of the Pacific coast of Guatemala, while a Mexican company wants to store liquid petroleum gas on its Caribbean coast. |
| HONDURAS: Renewed Permit for Gas del Caribe 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. |
Por José Adán Silva 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. |
Por Daniel Zueras - IPS/IFEJ Costa Rica's record in protecting biodiversity is representative of the country's overall environmental reality. |
| VENEZUELA: Valencia Lake Overflows and Contaminates Valencia Lake, with an area of 375 square kilometers and situated west of Caracas, has overflowed as a result of recent heavy rains and threatens about 1,000 homes towards the east in the city of Maracay. |
Por Humberto Márquez A wide array of factors is changing the quality and abundance of fish in the Southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. |
Por Patricia Grogg interviews agro-ecologist FERNANDO FUNES-MONZOTE Those who believe the introduction of transgenic crops is only a scientific matter are mistaken, says Cuban agro-ecologist Fernando Funes-Monzote in this exclusive interview. |
| VENEZUELA: Warning Against Tourism on Protected Islands Venezuelan environmentalists are on alert after President Hugo Chávez proposed organizing massive tourism to Los Roques archipelago, an idyllic group of Caribbean islands with white sands and turquoise waters, 180 kilometers north of Caracas. |
| CUBA: Cleaning Up the Malecón Residents of Havana have begun to gather along the Cuban capital's Malecón, an eight-kilometer esplanade and roadway, to clean up the garbage left by pedestrians. |
Por Sonia Edith Parra - IPS/IFEJ The great biodiversity of a protected area on the Honduran Caribbean coast is at risk, despite the efforts of a handful of residents and local institutions. |
Por Patricia Grogg The community on Cuba's Isla de la Juventud is preparing for another hurricane season, one that could be more intense than ever. |
Por Peter Costantini Photovoltaic panels are gradually appearing in Haiti, alongside streetlights, in a demonstration of what the Sun can do in a country with severe energy problems. |
| CUBA: Blue Scorpion Against Cancer Cuban scientists have isolated three proteins from the poison of the Caribbean's blue scorpion (Rhopalurus junceus), which inhibit malignant cancer cells. The scientists say they are willing to work with other laboratories to expand the research. |
Por Patricia Grogg There is little awareness about quake-related dangers for homes and other buildings in vulnerable zones like Cuba, say experts. |
Por Kathy Barrett What was once a magical place in Jamaica is on the verge of losing its best trait: the beaches. |
Por Kathy Barrett The Haiti earthquake was a reminder that the beautiful Caribbean is one of the planet's most geologically active zones. |
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